It is important for us to recognize that we built our American Democracy on principles already established in our mother country, Great Britain. One of the most important principles was made ...

Aids activists protest against the slow roll-out of antiretroviral drugs by the South African government in Cape Town on November 4, 2004 (Mike Hutchings/Courtesy Reuters). In a classic study written ...

This weekend provides the perfect occasion to say a kind word for the loyal opposition, which represents a vital cog in our system by raising resistance to power and giving voice to minority opinion.

The loyal opposition opposes. That is its job. Or at least part of its job. A loyal opposition makes good governments better, and bad administrations gone.

The concept of the loyal opposition arose from British parliamentary debates in the nineteenth century—that eventually institutionalized opposition through a minority party shadow cabinet—and does not ...

What's the role of a loyal opposition in a time of war; how did it play out this week in Congress, with tax cuts cut and war budgets announced? What's David Frum writing about lately. Sitting in for ...