Opinion: Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court are abdicating their responsibilities and allowing the executive branch to create a de facto monarchy.

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s worth preserving.

Robert Kimball Shinkoskey is the author of “The American Kings: Growth in Presidential Power from George Washington to Barack Obama.” He uses the agencies of government as his own personal political law enforcement staff.

The Supreme Court is hearing a case poised to end the no kings era in America, giving Donald Trump the power to fire any and all federal staffer without protest

“Common Sense,” his first major work, was an urgent wake-up call to every light-sleeping lover of liberty within earshot. In that pamphlet, Paine labels kingship “the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry.” He never minced words; he wanted the right people to choke on them.