George Mason University professor emeritus writes that state Supreme Court case will determine constitutional balance of power Governors appoint university boards, but the General Assembly must ...

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 ...

Fareed speaks with retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy about his new memoir, “Life, Law & Liberty,” and how an aggressive executive branch could risk America’s system of checks and balances.

Lee Hamilton is a distinguished scholar at the IU Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and senior ...

THE question is asked not necessarily to spite the court, but because accountability and an established mechanism for checks are essential to a truly functioning democracy. Of course, because of the ...