[SPIN CYCLE] The people and the press must check government’s power

See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Tom AllonBrooklyn DailyThe ingenious framers of our Constitution got most things right. It is amazing that a document crafted in the 18th century can be largely intact now in a very different world than the one in which it was conceived. Their plan to structure a government system that would check the power of the executive — the “checks and balances” — allowed us to succeed and make progress even when our president is misguided or h