Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years. Checks and balances. I can’t count how many times I heard those words in the history and social ...

Few Americans awoke July 1 with anticipation that the structure of our democracy as written in our Constitution would be altered by the Supreme Court. The court gave unlimited power to the president ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Center for American Progress released a new report that explores several ways Project 2025 proposes to gut America’s 250-year-old system of checks and balances in order ...

Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted of sex trafficking and other charges, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. A few weeks ago, the president said multiple times that he would “take a look” at pardoning ...