Political Science

President Joe Biden's administration unveiled a new national strategy on Tuesday to counter a rise in domestic terrorism, which includes adding prosecutors and other law enforcement officials across the government.

All 11 Democrats on the committee vowed to "vigorously investigate this apparent effort to weaponize DOJ against Trump's perceived political enemies."

House Democrats endorsed conservative talking points about Omar last week. Now the GOP wants to force a vote on rebuking the congresswoman.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is scrambling to contain the fallout of a widening Justice Depar...

Attorney General Merrick Garland is slated to meet with news executives at 4 p.m. Monday to discuss the former Trump Justice Department's leak probe.

The increasingly aggressive authoritarianism of Belarus is an acute test of the EU's diplomatic self-image.

The American president, who is set to meet with Vladimir Putin face to face on Wednesday in Geneva, is mindful of Putin's ability to survive even as his country has diminished as a world economic power.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - More than 16,000 Southern Baptists are gathered here this week for a...

President Joe Biden frequently talks about what he sees as central in executing effective foreign policy: building personal relationships. Biden, who is set...

Congress needs to approve one of two voting rights bills for truly meaningful action.

JOHN STONE, The Point of the Bayonet, Technology and Culture, Vol. 53, No. 4 (October 2012), pp. 885-908

CBS News Director of Elections and Surveys

Israel's longest-serving prime minister was a polarizing figure who sidelined efforts to resolve the Palestinian conflict but opened relations with four Arab countries.

Israel's parliament has narrowly voted in favor of a new coalition government, ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's historic 12-year rule.

The phrase "the loyal opposition" was coined by John Hobhouse in a debate in the English Parliament in 1826. Less than a hundred years later, A. Lawrence Lowell, a political scientist (and later president of Harvard University) proclaimed the loyal opposition "the greatest contribution of the ninete...

Analysis: There's nothing new about the Justice Department protecting the executive branch and the president. That's good for the current president, too.

Using the Justice Department to gather private information about members of Congress carried echoes of Nixon during Watergate.

Bill Maher is taking on people who plan to still wear masks and socially distance in California after June 15. The host of HBO's Real Time, who was forced to cancel a couple of shows after testing positive for Covid last month, said, "California, we're back baby, June 15, maybe we can stop this silly […]

On CNN Friday, former Nixon White House counsel John Dean said the newly reported Justice Department surveillance on former President Donald Trump's political opponents went far beyond anything that his former boss had done at the height of the Watergate scandal."John, from Jeff Sessions to Rod Rose...

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions late Friday afternoon announced that he too, just like former Attorney General Bill Barr, had no idea the Dept. of Justice was spying on at least two top House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee. The scandal has shaken both the DOJ and the general public ...