We hear about checks and balances first — and often last — in high school current events classes: Democratic republics have checks and balances which stabilize them, keeping them from spinning out of ...

Opinion: Trump’s trampling of the Constitution is largely attributable to the demise of checks and balances, seen by the ...

There was a time when Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to care about the U.S. Supreme Court’s integrity and the American people’s trust. That is evidently no longer the case. Last year, after ...

ATLANTA (AP) — It's what one historian calls an “elaborate, clunky machine,” one that's been fundamental to American democracy for more than two centuries. The principle of “checks and balances” is ...

Most in a new poll said the system of checks and balances in the U.S. government is not working well. When asked about the functioning of “the system of checks and balances between the executive, ...

What are you? I bet most of the time you feel like an I not a we, a single unified being, or at least you’re most comfortable when you feel like that, not being of two minds. Doubt is a splintering ...

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 ...