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.

Critics deride President Donald Trump's plan for an impenetrable shield over the United States as "pie-in-the-sky zany." ...

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 ...

▪ Elon Musk. “Trump’s approach is to use a nameless, faceless bureaucracy of 20-somethings and Elon Musk to dismantle a ...

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

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 ...

The DOE was created to ensure equal access to public education throughout the country. Trump wants to torch the effort ...

President Trump’s fixation reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, and created a ...

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 ...