Checks and balances are essential to our representative democracy. Under our system of government, the legislative, executive ...

MINOT — We have a tendency to pay a bit too much attention to the histrionics that sometimes take place at public meetings. Don't get me wrong, public comment periods are important. As we discussed on ...

The current government shutdown is the just latest reminder of what Americans already know: the federal government is dysfunctional. Nowhere is this more evident than in Congress, where a broken ...