In 1983, as Ronald Reagan went on an executive-order spree, The Nation sounded the alarm about very kind of presidential overreach we’re seeing from Trump today.

President Donald Trump’s executive order grasping far greater control over independent federal agencies embraces a constitutionally questionable theory that presidents dating back to Ronald Reagan ...

More than four decades apart, the two Republicans campaigned on similar anti-big government themes. Once in office, they ...

Anyone who knows what USIP does to promote peace and prosperity for the United States and the world should be horrified by Trump’s Feb. 19 order to eliminate it. USIP’s centra ...

“Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” the email said. Carr instructed staff to label the burn bags with the words ...

Executive orders are unlawful if they override federal ... policy goals,” wrote U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee who has blocked Trump’s order — which we ...

President Donald Trump, with recent actions to impose heavy tariffs and align the U.S. with Russia, is putting an exclamation point on the Republican Party’s hard shift away from the figure long ...

Trump plans to declare English the official U.S. language, rescinding Clinton-era requirement for agencies using federal ...

When President Ronald Reagan formalized that process in the ... One section of Trump’s executive order appeared to encompass more than just independent agencies – and it was drawing ...