This is the introduction to a bonus edition of Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insight from our correspondents in America. This month I’m writing about 1965 ...

This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our writers turn their gaze to the latest political developments in America. Is Donald Trump keeping that ...

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 United States' invasion of Venezuela is just the latest unilateral military action taken by a president without consulting with Congress and without congressional approval. This is fundamentally ...

'I don't care about the midterms': Trump says he won't be rushed into deal with Iran ...

Among the many pressing issues facing Americans today, such as the cost of living and health care, is a founding one: checks and balances. A new poll from the Public Religion Research Institute found ...

"The whole idea, as you said at the very beginning, was checks and balances. And, increasingly, with the Congress abdicating its responsibility, with the president having his own army, in effect, and ...