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 ...

A project at Stanford points to the need for institutional innovation, especially in government, to increase the odds that A.I. enhances democracy. By Steve Lohr In the late 1780s, shortly after the ...

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, ...