Rather than focusing on personalities and blaming, I think it is more productive to look at the underlying systems that ...

Checks and balances at work: Other views What people are saying about Trump and judicial independence.

Most important, it depends on average people venerating those institutions — even when the day-to-day results prove frustrating or disappointing.

The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches ...

Preserving checks and balances is something we should be care about. Enacting legislation is an important part of governing, but ensuring that each branch can effectively check the others is ...

As such history vividly demonstrates, checks and balances are not theoretical. They are the living framework that guards against injustice.

A United States military investigation has concluded that checks and balances devised to prevent cross-border mishaps with Pakistan failed to avert a deadly NATO airstrike last month in part ...

NBC News' Laura Jarrett looks at whether there are legal paths to block recent moves by President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

Whatever happened to the idea of checks and balances in our government? I have never heard before so many comments from members of Congress about “supporting the President’s agenda.” Shouldn ...

A project at Stanford points to the need for institutional innovation, especially in government, to increase the odds that A.I. enhances democracy.

The principle of "checks and balances" is rooted in the Constitution's design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches.