Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America's ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily ...

OPINION: It is impossible to think of a major military action that has been so poorly justified to Congress and the public as this one.

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing ...

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the media during a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club on Jan. 3, 2026. From an invasion of Venezuela to federalizing the National Guard, Trump is testing ...

There are many good reasons our government is based on three “separate but equal branches.” The men who wrote our Constitution 250 years ago had just fought a bloody war against an incredibly powerful ...