What do the Peace Corps, desegregation of the military, and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II have in common? They were all established by presidential executive orders.
I’m gravely concerned about the Congress, which remains asleep at the wheel, and an overeager executive trying to exercise ...
Our American government is often compared to a tree with three branches. The trunk of the tree is our Constitution. The roots of the tree are the American people. The first branch (Article 1) is the ...
In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...
I’d like to give a very special fuck you to The New York Times and all of the other major newspapers that went out of their ...
Without an independent judiciary, the Constitution would be no match for Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses.
The House speaker doesn’t seem to care too much that there are supposed to be three equal branches of government.
Domestically, Trump is posing threats to the rule of law on multiple fronts. And only three weeks into his term, many legal ...
Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-old power of ...
Since we are now at a time when the power of the president, Congress and the courts are in tension and generating legal ...