Donald Trump has put the constitutional separation of powers in the United States on trial. Federal judges have for now ...

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

The House speaker doesn’t seem to care too much that there are supposed to be three equal branches of government.

The media’s predictable shrieks and howls of “constitutional crisis” notwithstanding, we are in the throes of a grand ...

The three branches of government prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful and create a system of checks and balances ...

Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary's authority to serve as a check on executive power as ...

Recent court orders slowing down or indefinitely blocking President Donald Trump’s policy blitz have raised the specter that the executive branch might openly flout the federal judiciary and prompted ...

"It's about the people sitting in the dark. It's got nothing to do with politics." Costner’s comments come about three weeks after President Donald Trump appointed actors Mel Gibson, Sylvester ...

In its brief existence, the Elon Musk–helmed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has proved remarkably effective at ...

Two contemporaries born in the 18th century provide reasons for guarded optimism about 21st-century U.S. politics. Democrats ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its origins dating back to the first African American congregations in the ...

For nearly 250 years, the American system of government has been defined by the separation of powers between three coequal branches of government. In the first two weeks of his second term in office, ...