In his recent letter, “Don’t do it,” Thomas credits our forefathers for understanding the importance of checks and balances in government. He implies that the filibuster is one of the checks and ...

S cholars and observers have long noted that the academy leans leftward. In the 1970s, the sociologist and political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset conducted a survey of professors and found that ...

In our political system, checks and balances are the mechanisms that equitably distribute power. Checks and balances prevent any one institution or individual from exercising too much independent ...

I want to thank President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for calling Donald Trump to concede the election and show him, and his supporters, how a democracy is supposed to work. The last ...

The White House has operated a unified government since President Donald Trump’s January inauguration. With Republican majorities in the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and ...

Among the many pressing issues facing Americans today, such as the cost of living and health care, is a founding one: checks and balances. A new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute found ...

What has happened to the system of checks and balances intended to safeguard our form of government? In just a decade, a “rogue” (my view) president, combined with a majority party of sycophants in ...