Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Korok Ray is a PhD economist/professor who researches/teaches Bitcoin. Last month, I reviewed the power law model, first proposed ...

Donald Trump’s recent actions have highlighted the vast scope of the presidential pardon power. By pardoning approximately 1,500 people charged with participating in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol ...

The United States has never seen an effort to expand presidential authority at the scale of Donald J. Trump’s second term. News Analysis The United States has never seen an effort to expand ...

On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court discreetly issued an emergency order permitting the Trump administration to move forward with sweeping layoffs across federal agencies. The unsigned ruling did ...

In the radical opening weeks of his second term, President Trump has appeared to feel little constraint by any need to show respect for the rule of law. By Charlie Savage Charlie Savage has been ...

For nearly eight decades, the U.S. innovation ecosystem has been underpinned by a deliberately decentralized model of federal research support. Rooted in the vision laid out by Vannevar Bush in ...

Donald Trump is back in office and already flexing executive authority in unprecedented ways. NPR hears analysis from Bowdoin University's Andrew Rudalevige, who studies presidential power. So the ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. A constitutional conflict is brewing over Congress' power of the purse and whether the president can refuse to spend what ...