Executive Branch

Staff gather as outgoing National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster walks out of the White House during his last day on the job in Washington, D.C., U.S. April 6, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

FixGov

Crippling the capacity of the National Security Council

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order imposing fresh sanctions on Iran as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Vice President Mike Pence look on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Impeachment

The Imperial Presidency Is Alive and Well

Sarah A. Binder, James Goldgeier, and Elizabeth N. Saunders

Foreign Affairs Tuesday, January 21, 2020

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Unmaking the presidency

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST

Washington, DC

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC12E21409F0

FixGov

Trump’s alarming deference to Putin and Lindsay Graham’s weird deference to Trump: This week in impeachment

Elaine Kamarck

Friday, December 20, 2019

Reports

A view of the White House by night in Washington, U.S., November 16, 2019. REUTERS/Yara Nardi - RC2OCD9APFV7

Report

All the president’s privileges

Richard Lempert

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Microphones stand at the podium after U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta addressed supporters at the election night rally in New York, U.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Adrees Latif - HT1ECB90KK9V0

Policy 2020

The urgent need for peer review in the presidential nominating process

Elaine Kamarck

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Microphones wait for senators to speak after Senate Democratic and Republican caucus luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, October 15, 2013. Republicans in the House of Democratic failed to reach internal consensus on Tuesday on how to break an impasse on the federal budget that could soon result in an economically damaging default on the country's debt. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E9AG05TF01

U.S. Politics & Government

Acting leaders: recent practices, consequences, and reforms

Anne Joseph O’Connell

Monday, July 22, 2019

Republican president-elect Donald Trump's Trump Tower is seen in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., November 27, 2016. REUTERS/Darren Ornitz

U.S. Politics & Government

Considering collusion: A primer on potential crimes

Barry H. Berke, Dani R. James, Noah Bookbinder, and Norman Eisen

Thursday, November 1, 2018

A lone worker passes by the U.S. Capitol building in Washington

U.S. Politics & Government

Responsiveness and durability: An analysis of the Accountability and State Plans rule

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Blog Posts

FixGov

Why Trump’s tax returns are so important: This week in impeachment

Elaine Kamarck

Friday, December 13, 2019

Paul Volcker arrives for a news conference where US President-elect Barack Obama (not pictured) presented his choices for his newly formed Economic Recovery Board in Chicago November 26, 2008. Volcker, 81, will be the chair of the panel and Austan Goolsbee (not pictured) will serve as its staff director. REUTERS/John Gress (UNITED STATES) - GM1E4BR02S801

FixGov

Paul A. Volcker: Champion of public administration

John J. DiIulio

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

White House Counsel Don McGahn is seen at testimony of Judge Brett Kavanaugh during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC, U.S. September 27, 2018. Erin Schaff/Pool via REUTERS - RC1CF7D19850

FixGov

House Judiciary Committee v. McGahn: Executive power or executive privilege

Richard Lempert

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

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Multimedia

U.S.Labor Secretary Alex Acosta listens as U.S. President Donald Trump announces Acosta's resignation before the president departed for travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., July 12, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque?? - RC11300D1CC0

Podcast Episode

With Acosta’s resignation, how is high turnover affecting the administration?

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Friday, July 12, 2019

Demonstrators gather outside the U.S. Supreme Courthouse in Washington, U.S., April 23, 2019. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton - RC172B1D73C0

Podcast Episode

Will new documents sway the Supreme Court on census citizenship question?

Alan Berube

Monday, June 3, 2019

Reports

The Mueller report: What did we learn?

President Carter: The White House years

How to create a better, more efficient approach to infrastructure

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