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Perspective

Oct. 20, 2016

Freakonomics: How much power does a US president really have?

It turns out that the nature of presidential power is a bit more complicated than we imagined — and that the notion of a Trump presidency is far more terrifying.

How powerful, really, is the president of the United States? In the past, we've argued that the leader of the free world is much less powerful than people generally think. But our current, highly chaotic election cycle has made the question newly relevant. Donald Trump has proposed a ban on Muslim immigrants to the U.S. and potentially a reconsideration of American's relationship with NATO. Those policies would seem to involve executive powers that extend far beyond U.S. political norms. Coul...

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