President Trump’s moves test the limits of presidential power and the resilience of US democracy

Who Paid for Trump’s Transition to Power?

“After six weeks in office, President Trump has not disclosed the names of the donors who paid for his transition planning, despite a public pledge to do so,” the New York Times reports.

Trump 2.0 borrows a ton from Richard Nixon — but 37th president’s playbook also has big risks

You’ve made a huge political comeback. You’re deeply suspicious of the Washington bureaucracy. You’re contemptuous of liberal elites and the media they control, especially TV networks and The New York Times.

Harvard professor, political scientist Steven Levitsky, argues that Trump is “the biggest assault on US democratic institutions in history.”

Congress pushed back after Watergate, but what about now?

President Donald Trump has tried to unravel restrictions on presidents that Congress added in the wake of the Nixon administration and the Watergate scandal, a push that experts say comes at a time when growing partisanship has left Congress ill-equipped to respond. The Trump administration has withheld congressionally mandated funding, fired more than a dozen inspectors general meant to watchdog the executive branch and fired without cause an o…

Navarrette: Trump is leaving a huge mess only liberals can clean up

President Donald Trump wasted no time sparking new controversies once he returned to office, issuing broad pardons to convicted Jan. 6 criminals immediately after his inauguration. Since then, he’s sought to unilaterally overturn constitutional laws and seize new executive powers. He's also purged the federal government of key programs and personnel, and isolated the United States from its allies and partners on the international stage. A range …

James Madison and the Crisis of the New Order – Richard Samuelson

In his history of the New Deal, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called the events that precipitated the election of Franklin Roosevelt and the creation of the New Deal “The Crisis of the Old Order.” Building on the ideas of the earlier Progressive Movement, (FDR ‘s “Commonwealth Club Address” outlining the agenda for his presidency is officially a “Campaign Address On Progressive Government”), Roosevelt led a realignment, and helped to create a new polit…