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January 21, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Just Made Bribing Politicians Legal Again
Donald Trump issued an executive order regarding receiving gifts from lobbyists.
January 21, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Sneaks Dangerous Rights for Fetuses Into Executive Order
Donald Trump slipped the anti-abortion language into an otherwise unrelated order.
January 21, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Elon Musk’s Efficiency Agency Turns Out to Be Just Another Scam
Donald Trump finally created DOGE.
January 20, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Will Sign Flood of Sweeping Executive Orders on Inauguration Day
Donald Trump is expected to use his inauguration to sign dozens of orders covering immigration, climate, and more.
December 8, 2022
Steven Greenhouse
How Biden Can Undo His Damage to Labor
He didn’t give rail workers paid leave in legislation. But he can still do it through an executive order.
June 21, 2017
MagazineDavid Dayen
Don’t Get Met—It Pays
Did Trump use an executive order to aid a generous corporate backer?
May 11, 2017
Moira Donegan
Trump’s “voter fraud” commission is being led by the GOP’s self-deportation architect.
Kris Kobach of Kansas is set to lead the new "Election Integrity" commission. That should terrify everyone.
March 24, 2017
Clio Chang
Pictures of Trump signing things with white men, ranked.
February 10, 2017
Graham Vyse
Donald Trump is not going to take this judiciary slapping him around!
January 31, 2017
Clio Chang
Silicon Valley’s Uneasy Muslim Ban Dance
The industry has come out in opposition to Donald Trump’s executive order. Kind of.
November 24, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
Here's What SNL's Immigration Skit Got Right—and Wrong
November 21, 2014
Noam Scheiber
The GOP Reaction to Obama's Immigration Order Will Be Way More Damaging Than They Realize
August 8, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
The Immigration Argument That Almost Nobody Mentions
Whatever President Obama does, President Cruz could undo
April 7, 2014
Bryce Covert
Obama's New Move on Gender and Pay Could Have More Impact than the Lilly Ledbetter Act

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