The Founding Fathers presumed that the legislature and courts would keep an authoritarian leader in check. Were they right?

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 ...

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 ...

The new Ken Burns documentary, “The American Revolution,” provides a special opportunity to learn why our nation’s founders chose liberty and built a democracy based on three branches of government ...

President Donald Trump’s authoritarian assault on America’s constitutional democracy, as unbearable to the naked eye as watching an eclipse, has proceeded at a pace that has shocked academic experts ...

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 ...

Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director turned investor, is warning that a cluster of "institutional" problems at home should worry Americans more than partisan food fights.

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

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 ...