President Donald Trump has challenged our system of checks and balances. He shows little appreciation for Congress and the ...

At an NYU Law Forum on October 22, former government officials and constitutional law scholars examined the current state of ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive ...

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. Supreme Court issues emergency order ...

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'A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth," Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison in a December 1787 letter. Jefferson was disappointed that the final ...

It is unfortunate that the word bias has a negative connotation, writes Christopher de Vinck. Let’s say, instead, that there is an urgent need for truth in journalism not bias. Let’s say we lean ...

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 ...