We hear about checks and balances first — and often last — in high school current events classes: Democratic republics have checks and balances which stabilize them, keeping them from spinning out of ...

"In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald ...

President Trump has sought to deliver on his promise to streamline government by cutting more than 200,000 federal jobs since taking office for his second term, but with 174 pending lawsuits against ...

There was a time when Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to care about the U.S. Supreme Court’s integrity and the American people’s trust. That is evidently no longer the case. Last year, after ...

Charlotte Howard, our executive editor and New York bureau chief, considers the parallelisms between the two men ...

Bruce Springsteen said, “The last check on power after the checks and balances of government have failed are the people, you and me. It’s in the union of people around a common set of values now ...