In “United States of Secrets,” a two-part series airing May 13 & 20, FRONTLINE reveals the dramatic inside story of how the U.S. government came to monitor and collect the communications of ...

The encroaching information superpower that the French government feared was in fact the United States, which at that time—and for decades to follow—assertively promoted its own right of way in ...

A new report from the Brennan Center for Justice has some recommendations for state and local governments to prepare for the ...

The United States government holds $12 billion in Bitcoin, making it the country with the largest Bitcoin holdings in the world.

The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China on Sunday released a report on human rights violations ...

The United States Institute of Peace (usip) was established by Congress in 1984 to promote an end to conflict all over the world. Forty years later it came to an end with an armed stand-off at its ...

The Clinton administration's "Reinventing Government" initiative in the 1990s that reduced the size of the federal workforce might seem similar to what Elon Musk is up to with the Department of ...

What are the three branches of government in the United States? The United States government is divided into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. This separation of powers keeps ...

David Lowery, William D. Berry, The Growth of Government in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of Competing Explanations, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Nov., 1983), pp ...

Here are key findings from our research on the relationship between religion and government in the U.S. and Americans' views on the issue.