ATLANTA (AP) — It’s what one historian calls an “elaborate, clunky machine,” one that’s been fundamental to American democracy for more than two centuries. A Craigslist ad seeking child actors for ...

Amid a looming administration showdown with the Supreme Court over the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, Americans should remember that litigation on ...

The Kansas Legislature overrode a record number of Governor Kelly's vetoes in the 2025 session, raising concerns about the balance of power. The legislative supermajority's ability to override vetoes ...

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 ...

We have three branches of government because we don’t trust one, or even two, to do the people’s work when it comes to a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Our government’s ...

The new Ken Burns documentary, “The American Revolution,” provides a special opportunity to learn why our nation’s founders chose liberty and built a democracy based on three branches of government ...

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 ...

ATLANTA (AP) — 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 ...