Topic: unitary executive

President Richard Nixon holding a press conference (Steve Northup/Getty Images)

The dark love affair with Richard Nixon

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Sept. 30, 2026. (Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's failure hides Project 2025 wins

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump VS the US Constitution (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's latest blitz on the Constitution

Austin Sarat
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is interviewed by executive producer Chris Whipple for 'The Presidents' Gatekeepers' project about White House Chiefs of Staff. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

Dick Cheney paved the way for Trump

Heather Digby Parton
Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett greet President Donald Trump after his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

SCOTUS just told us how its term will go

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump, with Sean Duffy (L), speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 24, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

One fringe legal theory threatens it all

John A. Dearborn, Desmond King, Stephen Skowronek
U.S. President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr speak in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to regulating social media (Doug MIlls-Pool/Getty Images)

Bill Barr's crackpot theory got us here

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump, Merrick Garland and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Former Bush lawyer: Send Trump to jail

Chauncey DeVega
U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bill Barr's fascist manifesto

Heather Digby Parton
U.S. Attorney General William Barr (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Bill Barr has a goal: Right-wing rule

Heather Digby Parton
(AP/Matt Rourke)

Trump really does want to rule the world

Heather Digby Parton
Robert Mueller (Getty/Saul Loeb)

will trump fire mueller?

Jefferson Morley - Alternet
Donald Trump; John Yoo (Getty/Drew Angerer/AP/Susan Walsh)

"Torture lawyer" attacks Trump

Heather Digby Parton