Time magazine honored this ideal of checks and balances on power when it designated its 2002 Persons of the Year as the Whistleblowers— who “helped remind us what American courage and American ...

We, the people, have always been the real check, the most important balance, with the power, through our votes, to reject and depose any would-be king with an unstirred conscience and a dormant soul.

The Virginia Supreme Court will soon decide a case that goes to the heart of how we govern our public universities.

What checks and balances remain on an out-of-control president? If Clinton is elected, assuming that it is not a landslide that sweeps in a Democratic House and Senate, the Congress will oppose her.

Becasue it was supposed to be the checks and balances, but it’s only like the balance part because there’s, you know, balance on the front end of who goes into the court, and the structure of ...

You probably associate checks and balances with government, right? Three branches—presidential, congressional, and judicial—impose checks and balances on each other.

When an authoritarian president claims he has unlimited powers to deploy National Guard troops, that’s a problem.

President Trump is testing restraints on his power to hire and fire, which is worth doing in many cases but raises hard questions in others.

Now the “ secretary of everything ” is handing control of USAID to White House budget director Russell Vought, who is trying to claw back nearly $5 billion from the embattled global aid agency in a ...