On March 27, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which aims to root out the “corrosive ideology” that casts American history in a ...

Travel back in time with me for a moment to 1981, the government shutdown. Two-hundred-forty-one-thousand federal employees were furloughed, and this is what it sounded like when you called the White ...

How did government in Los Angeles evolve? Joining host Larry Mantle is Martin Schiesel, professor emeritus of history at Cal State, LA. His specialty is studying both government and the LAPD in Los ...

The history of government shutdowns began in earnest in the nineteen-eighties. Even then, they were typically short and often revolved around a handful of issues. Not that there even was an issue all ...

In an election year, there’s plenty of hand-wringing about our lack of faith in Washington. But it’s all part of the messy reality of American democracy. This column is a part of Republic of Distrust, ...

The federal government remains shut down, in what is now the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Many federal workers have missed paychecks, including air traffic controllers, who are working unpaid.

Washington — The U.S. government reopened Wednesday, Nov. 12, after a record-breaking 43-day-long shutdown that began Wednesday, Oct. 1, as President Trump and congressional Republicans were unable to ...

In August 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the Government Performance and Results Act, a pioneering piece of legislation that required federal agencies to create strategic plans, set annual goals ...

Fittingly, the announcement came just a week before the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, the treasure trove of leaked documents that revealed the long history of government ...

・The United States government faces a partial government shutdown starting October 1, 2025 unless Congress can pass a spending bill. ・There have been 20 funding gaps and 4 full government shutdowns in ...

The Call for the Last Victims of the Terror, 7-9 Thermidor, Year 2 (25-27 July 1794). Found in the collection of Musée de l'Histoire de France, Château de Versailles.= The Call for the Last Victims of ...