But it was the Romans who developed a working model of checks and balances. The constitution of the Roman republic was ...

The US government is divided into three branches ... Our founding fathers design checks and balances to prevent any one branch from overpowering the others. Many point out President Trump ...

The federal government is racing toward a fiscal cliff, with a new report citing a mind-numbing $838 billion cash shortfall just for the first four months of the fiscal year. Yet Democrats are ...

But their approach — which one prominent Democrat characterized as “flagrantly violating the law” — is drawing legal ...

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“The budget that I inherited would have put us approximately $400 million into ... legislation that will create a ‘one-stop shop’ system for permitting approvals. So, when you want to ...

President Trump’s quest to dislodge thousands of workers from the federal government is being hamstrung by an antiquated ...

Is this the end of democracy in the US? Our guests: Annika Brockschmidt (Journalist), Erik Kirschbaum (Journalist), Brandon Bohrn (Bertelsmann Stiftung) Annika Brockschmidt, writer and US expert.

Thats their function. Its called checks and balances. Why do you want to obliterate our norms? If you’re not happy with a ruling there’s an appeals court all the way up to SCOTUS." Most ...

Rapidly approaching the century mark, I have the distinct advantage of seeing where we have been as a country.

The US government is trying to rehire nuclear safety employees it had fired on Thursday, after concerns grew that their dismissal could jeopardise national security, US media reported. The ...