Trump has been fixated on the Insurrection Act since nationwide protests broke out over the police killing of George Floyd during his first term, but he never invoked it. There wasn’t an insurrection then, experts on the Act told TPM, and there isn’t one now.

In refusing to let the president deploy National Guard troops in Illinois under an obscure law, the justices may have made him more apt to invoke greater powers.

The 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the current Federal Reserve System and introduced a central bank to oversee U.S. monetary policy.

In October 2025, a rumor spread online that U.S. President Donald Trump had asked his supporters to share a set of "TRUMP Rules" called the "Congressional Reform Act of 2025." The alleged act, as detailed in many Facebook posts, included proposals like ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the CEO of Command Education, I write about emotionally intelligent leadership and education. Updated, July 25, 2024: An earlier post misidentified the ACT by its former title.

The Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's best for threatened species.