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Good to Know: Executive orders (and their cousins)

Andrew Rudalevige - August 2, 2025
What presidential directives can – and cannot – do.

Trump’s executive orders: Everybody loves butter

Andrew Rudalevige - January 20, 2025
Here’s the rundown on executive orders, from FDR to Biden.

Is your town urban or rural? A lot of money rides on the government’s answer — which may soon change.

Zoe Nemerever and Melissa Rogers - April 19, 2021
The Trump administration proposed expanding what is defined as ‘rural’

The Trump administration is raising the application fee for U.S. citizenship. That will cost the U.S. later on.

Michael Hotard and David Laitin - April 6, 2020
Citizens make more than permanent residents — and therefore pay more taxes

A federal judge blocked a Trump administration rule that would allow children to be detained indefinitely. Here’s what you need to know.

Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer - August 23, 2019
One child cried silent tears as I met with her mother. Another was refusing food.

Compared with recent presidents, Trump does not like to travel — except when he’s campaigning

Kathryn Tenpas and James McCann - January 25, 2019
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The Trump administration might be deregulating more than you know (or could know)

Susan Yackee and Simon Haeder - August 24, 2018
[caption id="attachment_77075" align="aligncenter" width="960"] A coal-fired power plant in Glenrock,

Fake comments flooded in when the FCC repealed net neutrality. They may count less than you think.

Steven Balla - December 14, 2017
The Federal Communications Commission’s much-anticipated vote on net neutrality has

Most of Trump’s executive orders aren’t actually executive orders. Here’s why that matters.

Andrew Rudalevige - January 30, 2017
The flood of executive directives flowing from the White House —

Trump pledged to reverse Obama’s executive orders. Here’s how well past presidents have fulfilled that pledge.

Joshua Lee and James Pfiffner - January 23, 2017
[caption id="attachment_52847" align="aligncenter" width="960"] President Trump hands Chief of Staff
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