Congress remains locked in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. While headlines understandably focus on safety-net and healthcare talks, a broader institutional danger looms: elimination ...

Routine congressional oversight hearings usually don't make headlines. Historically, these often low-key events have been the ...

OpEd: Preserving the filibuster maintains balance, protects minority voices, and prevents rapid, destabilizing policy shifts the Founders feared.

Congress remains locked in a political standoff in what is now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. While ...

Those words, referring to King George III, were written by Thomas Jefferson. They appear in the Declaration of Independence among the 27 listed grounds for the American Revolution. The fundamental ...

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The Supreme Court’s pattern of deference to the executive has rocked our constitutional foundations and invited presidential disregard of fundamental legal constraints and duties. James Madison’s ...

This is an age of hyperpartisanship. Even as our parties have atrophied as political institutions—replaced by candidate-centered organizations supplemented by independent super PACs—partisan sentiment ...

Thomas Pope, professor of political science and director of Lee University’s Center for Responsible Citizenship, was awarded a $40,000 grant from the Jack Miller Center to fund its second annual ...