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Good to Know: Executive orders (and their cousins)

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

Big government vastly expanded presidential power. Republicans use it to sabotage the administrative state.

William Howell and Terry Moe - October 31, 2021
The "unitary executive" theory is a boon to a strongman president who wants to dismantle democracy's guardrails.

Only Congress has the authority to declare war. Can it take that power back from the presidency?

Saikrishna Prakash - September 30, 2020
Here are some possible courses of action — if the legislature wants to do more than signal its displeasure.

How a stronger presidency could lead to more effective government

William Howell and Terry Moe - September 13, 2020
And more effective government could help reduce populism

Why presidential candidates (like Trump) campaign as isolationists but (like Trump) govern as hawks

Verlan Lewis - April 18, 2017
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Should Obama bomb the Islamic State? Ask Congress first.

Andrew Rudalevige - November 18, 2015
The mass murders in Paris on Friday by the Islamic State terrorist

Five myths about the future of Obamacare

John Sides - December 16, 2013
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What’s Wrong with “What’s Wrong with Obama?”

Andrew Rudalevige - September 19, 2013
(With apologies to Larry Bartels...) Yesterday's Politico story trumpeting (despite

Improving the First Draft of History

Andrew Rudalevige - May 20, 2013
Just wanted to note a quick and surely incomplete census

Economic Inequality and Political Power (Part 2 of 3)

Martin Gilens - August 14, 2012
In my previous post I discussed the lack of government
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