Amid a looming administration showdown with the Supreme Court over the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison, Americans should remember that litigation on ...

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 ...

I want to thank President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for calling Donald Trump to concede the election and show him, and his supporters, how a democracy is supposed to work. The last ...

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 ...

I want to thank the Minnesota Star Tribune for highlighting the plight of refugees scheduled to arrive in our state before the issuance of Executive Order 14163 (“Refugee resettlement in turmoil,” ...

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 Bend City Council meeting on Oct. 15 came with a kind of apology. The city failed to file the appropriate follow-up paperwork for two contracts in a timely way. It’s hardly a scandal. It’s more ...

The White House has operated a unified government since President Donald Trump’s January inauguration. With Republican majorities in the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and ...

This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our writers turn their gaze to ...