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 ...

Observers of the court said the justices would be keenly aware that Mr. Trump would perceive a legal defeat as a personal ...

Ben Franklin warned that we had “a republic if you can keep it.” And the phrase that famous baseball announcer Mel Allen used to respond to a well struck ball headed for a home run — “Going, going, ...

ATLANTA — It’s what one historian calls an “elaborate, clunky machine,” one that’s been fundamental to American democracy for more than two centuries. The principle of checks and balances is rooted in ...

S cholars and observers have long noted that the academy leans leftward. In the 1970s, the sociologist and political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset conducted a survey of professors and found that ...