Senior Editor, Cato Institute
There are far too few checks left on executive power.
Joe Biden showed that the 25th Amendment doesn't work. Donald Trump showed that impeachment is broken too.
The federal leviathan can’t be dismantled by executive action alone. To truly cut spending and rein in the bureaucracy, the administration needs buy-in from the branch that built it.
The libertarian case for the late Jimmy Carter.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
The modern presidency is a divider, not a uniter. It has become far too powerful to be anything else.
The 45th president busted norms left and right. But the abuse of executive power didn't start and won't end with him.
The Trump presidency has been a stress test for maximalist theories of presidential power.
Americans can lose their jobs for almost anything. Why are we so hesitant to give presidents the boot?
Donald Trump's rhetoric is breathtakingly authoritarian, but so far he's done less than his predecessors to expand executive power.
Opposition to war depends largely on which party is waging it.
A conservative legal scholar's surprisingly convincing case against the Constitution.
Ferguson shows us that "protect and serve" is long gone. Can we get it back?
Dystopian military toys are being pointed at our own civilians.
It wasn't a national nightmare; it was fun. We can do it again.
Rick Perry likes to speculate what the Gipper would do, but he should look at what he DID do.
John Kerry called it like it is, and neocons are throwing a tiresome fit.
"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican" has been suspended.
A conservative legal scholar's surprisingly convincing case against the Constitution.
Nearly a quarter century of American mistakes in Iraq
Both sides seem all-too-capable of repeating the same mistakes again.
It is a sound, even noble, foreign policy goal, one that can help us avoid further sacrifice of American blood and treasure.
She's rarely met a war she didn't like-or a constitutional limit she deems worth respecting.
Do we really need someone who gets paid to dodge 10,000 questions?
One year after promising dialogue, his administration is silent.
Monica Lewinsky's reemergence is a reminder that our presidential safety valve is broken.
Conservatives have no good reason to caterwaul this time.
He now has explain when he feels legally entitled to kill you.
We're generating an atmosphere of perpetual, low-level anxiety and excuses for official harassment.
Rep. Eric Cantor is more interested in taking shots at Obama than actually fixing the monstrous executive office.
It's running at least a decade late and over a billion dollars short.
Are these the "#results" Obama wanted?
Edward Snowden isn't the first to expose a covert, unconstitutional war against the American people.
A look back on its development over the last five years.
Never before have so many been so intimidated by so few, with so little political power.
Every year, there are conservatives who complain about a "War on Christmas." If there's ever a War on Presidents Day, sign us up.
The show is a Beltway power fantasy, an embodiment of Washington's id.
It's easy to make fun of No Labels; their empty pieties offer no real alternative to business as usual.
As President Gerald Ford once said, "the state of the union is not good"
From a critic of the Patriot Act to its defender, it's been quite a transformation.
A year later, Newtown's legislative legacy is far less dramatic than it might have been.
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