Tag: presidential power
I strongly recommend John Sides’s post, and for that matter I also strongly recommend On Deaf Ears and the Strategic Presidency, the most essential readings about the presidency this side of Nue
Elias Isquith is very agitated about one of the points in this post, which may be due to a lack of clarity on my part. To provide said clarity, I should emphasize that I am not saying that the p

I find myself in an unusual position of arguing that someone is underestimating presidential power. Armando asserts that I argue that we shouldn’t care who is president. So, working backward fro
Given that making an argument on the merits that there is an “imperial presidency” on domestic as well as foreign policy is essentially impossible, as you can see from these comment thread
Scott of course is right about the Green Lantern theory of domestic politics. There’s just no way Obama is going to will Ben Nelson or Olympia Snowe into supporting a given policy. Giving speech
I have more to say about what the presidency and what it can and can’t accomplish based on Jeff Shessol’s terrific book on FDR and the court-packing fight. But since I have a couple dea
It won’t surprise most readers to know that my reactions to some of the responses to Corey Robin’s informal roundtable are pretty similar to Matt’s. The idea that there’s
Ezra: Let’s agree that what matters isn’t how many jobs you “get caught trying” to create, but how many jobs you actually create. There’s virtually no evidence that if Obama makes more speec
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,105
- When you’re too ignorant to know how insane orthodox Republican policy on guns is
- LGM Film Club, Part 267: You in Japan
- Starbucks Union: Chilean Lessons
- Cowardly accessories to murder demand the protection they refused to provide
- Uvalde police didn’t want *anyone else* doing their job, either
- 19 dead kids and 19 live cops
- Monsters
- Metal Masculinity
- Coward cops and America’s WMD gun fetish