The House speaker doesn’t seem to care too much that there are supposed to be three equal branches of government.

The most serious forms of resistance to Trump's efforts to foreclose the normal functioning of government are coming from ...

The American experiment depends on institutional checks on power’s exercise. If there are no checks, then these indeed will ...

Checks and balances are supposed to ward off a spoils system. Can the guardrails hold?

"Who wouldn’t trade our current environment for 1870’s tariff-driven, be-candled, tuberculosis-laden, pre-industrial heyday?" ...

In his first three weeks, President Trump has pushed the government’s checks and balances designed to limit executive power.

President Donald Trump on Monday said that Palestinians would not be guaranteed a right of return to the Gaza Strip if the ...

The president’s lawyers argued that the distinction between civil servants and political appointees was unworkable and ...

Angus King, the independent senator from Maine who caucuses with Democrats, posed this gut-punching query to his Republican ...

The erosion of checks and balances is further exacerbated by the meek response from congressional Republicans. Despite ...

The last three weeks have been among the most hectic and destructive our federal government has ever seen in our country’s history. It’s hard to keep up.

We need an American equivalent of the Arab Spring, an overwhelming and sustained demand for fundamental rights, good government, a healthy democracy and the rule of law.