The clash over Donald Trump’s appointees risks becoming a circus, says Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief ...

Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America's ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily corruptible. Because the Founding Fathers knew that — "The truth is that all ...

The shooting of an American citizen by an ICE agent raises grave questions, argues Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief ...

Editor’s note: Lee Hamilton is a distinguished scholar at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and senior advisor for the Indiana University Center on Representative ...

George Mason University professor emeritus writes that state Supreme Court case will determine constitutional balance of power Governors appoint university boards, but the General Assembly must ...

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 ...

The GOP in Congress nullified the legislative branch this year by failing to stand up to the president’s actions, even when those ran counter to the Constitution, such as his decisions to cancel ...