William Howell

William Howell is the Sydney Stein Professor of American Politics at the University of Chicago and the author, most recently, of The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

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Why the President Needs More Power

The Founding Fathers didn't design Congress to solve national problems in the national interest.

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Executive Secrecy

If we want to check presidential power—and check it we must—then it is essential that we resist claims to executive secrecy.

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Response: Marching in Formation

Republican partisanship is what delivered Trump the election.

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