‘DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS’ — Anti-abortion activists and their allies in government are hoping this is the year they finally take down Planned Parenthood by going after the federal funding that makes ...

Even a somewhat informed observer might wonder why President Donald Trump and the Republicans, who control all three branches ...

I’m gravely concerned about the Congress, which remains asleep at the wheel, and an overeager executive trying to exercise ...

We are quickly seeing what it is like to have a president who is willing to simply ignore the law when it suits him.

For nearly 250 years, the American system of government has been defined by the separation of powers between three coequal ...

Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common ...

Our American government is often compared to a tree with three branches. The trunk of the tree is our Constitution. The roots of the tree are the American people. The first branch (Article 1) is the ...

The US government has had the authority to check the authority of its branches since 1803. The checks and balances mechanism ...

Since we are now at a time when the power of the president, Congress and the courts are in tension and generating legal ...