The new Ken Burns documentary, The American Revolution, provides a special opportunity to learn why our nation's founders ...

The American system of constitutional government depends on strong institutions. It also depends on political actors who understand and honor those institutions. Most important, it depends on average ...

The GOP in Congress nullified the legislative branch this year by failing to stand up to the president’s actions, even when those ran counter to the Constitution, such as his decisions to cancel ...

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court and its carefully manufactured conservative majority will hear the first in a chain of cases that may well determine for the foreseeable future the survival of the ...