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 ...

At a time, when the world has witnessed a retrenchment in global democracy, it is astounding that Malaysia is still ...

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 ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing ...

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 ...

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and other charges, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. A few weeks ago, the president said multiple times that he would “take a look” at pardoning ...

Regarding the recent events in Venezuela, what has happened to our system of checks and balances in the United States government? It seems that the man who is now president can act unilaterally in any ...

COLUMN. As the president shows his eagerness to dismantle any form of checks and balances both within and beyond the US ...

During his remarks from the Oval Office today, Donald Trump complains about checks and balances while raving about the unitary power that China's Xi Jinping possesses. "He says 'do it' and that's the ...

Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive and judicial branches provide balance and prevent each other from growing ...