WASHINGTON — One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, ai...
Peter M. Shane | Posted 03.07.2012
For all the brouhaha surrounding President Obama's recess appointments this week of three new members for the National Labor Relations Board and of Ri...
Daphne Eviatar | Posted 03.04.2012
Back when he was a candidate, then-Senator Obama criticized President George W. Bush for his frequent reliance on signing statements to circumvent Congressional intent. What a difference executive power makes.
The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 11.28.2011
WASHINGTON -- "Bully!: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt" is a new book put out by D.C.-based Regnery Publishing. It's a biography of the wi...
Donald Kerwin | Posted 12.06.2011
U.S. immigration policy still needs to be fixed. The American people would be better served if Congress worked towards constructive solutions to this challenge, rather than engaged in political theater.
Kent Greenfield | Posted 07.20.2011
Up until this week, I would have said that George W. Bush was the most aggressive president in modern times in exercising executive power. Now, I can honestly say President Obama is giving "W." a run for his money.
Michael Ratner | Posted 05.30.2011
Barack Obama's decision to bomb Libya is another shocking example of his grab for the kind of executive power he eschewed in his predecessor's administration -- so long as he was still a candidate.
Peter M. Shane | Posted 05.25.2011
A distinguished fellow law professor, Adam Winkler, has recently argued that the Obama Administration's decision not to defend the constitutionality o...
Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011
Progressives need to spend less time commiserating over all the good things that Congress should do but won't, and more time thinking about the things Obama could do if he aggressively seized the reins of government.
HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011
Recently enough that you may still recall it, a secretive, paranoid man who had previously headed a major multinational energy company found himself v...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has the executive authority to bypass a hostile Republican House of Representatives and a bitterly divided Senate...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 05.25.2011
Recently, I feel transported back to the Clinton impeachment. You remember: a married man who received oral pleasure from someone other than his wife ...
Saskia Sassen | Posted 05.25.2011
With a new emergent phase of democratic and quasi democratic regimes, can enhanced executive power linked to globalization be reoriented to better, noncommercial goals, like climate change, global hunger, or poverty?
Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week's ruling that the warrantless wiretapping from the post 9-11 era is illegal was not just a stinging rebuke to the Bush administration. It also slammed the current administration.
Donna Flagg | Posted 05.25.2011
So in the end, who makes the best managers? Which individuals get the most out of their teams and produce the best business results for their employers?
Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 05.25.2011
Kagan may very well prove to be an albatross around the Obama administration, both in real time and in the textbooks, as she represents the Executive Branch far outpacing the courts.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011
Elena Kagan -- safe, no record, never challenged power in any meaningful way, never stood up for progressive ideology, beloved by the establishment in Washington -- the perfect Obama candidate. I'm tired of it.
William S. Becker | Posted 05.25.2011
On Capitol Hill, the ship of state is so bereft of rudder and sail that the crew is jumping overboard. The latest to abandon ship is Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana.
The New York Times | Peter Baker | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his execut...
William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011
I recently reported that Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair acknowledged that "the U.S. may, with executive approval, deliberately target and kill U.S. citizens who are suspected of being involved in terrorism."
Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011
Statements by the administration that the president may be considering picking and choosing among provisions of laws passed by Congress, like Bush, are disturbing.
James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011
No matter how much he might disdain the W. presidency, especially when it came to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path.
Jan Birchfield, Ph.D | Posted 11.17.2011
Humility arises when we see through the illusion of personal identification with power; this increases the chance that we will use it in service of something larger than ourselves.
Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 05.25.2011
We grouse about Congress people prostituting themselves all the time. If we believe in health care, we may have to do the same, as it were.
Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011
Criticism of Obama and the czar "system" is overblown. In fact, a czar's power comes not from dictatorial authority, but from humble restraint.
nytimes.com | Posted 04.23.2012