Executive Orders

This "What Just Happened?" episode focuses on President Trump’s Executive Orders and other policies regarding immigration and the border.

An expert explainer on President Donald Trump's announcement of the Stargate AI infrastructure investment project.

An expert explainer on the Executive Order Declaring National Emergency Southern Border and deployment of troops.

The effects of President Donald Trump's revocation of Biden's E.O. terminating sanctions against the ICC, and what comes next.

There’s a version of this executive order that might have given free-speech advocates hope that the incoming administration would investigate “jawboning”—government pressure…

President Donald Trump’s day one E.O. titled "Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements" combines provisions that are straightforward, inconsistent with…

"I remain convinced that the statute authorizing the ban is an ill-advised and unconstitutional law that does lasting damage to the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans…

The Biden administration's AI diffusion rule is another salvo in the United States' escalating AI competition with China.

Regardless of what steps Trump takes next, Biden's cybersecurity EO reflects an important consensus on the evolving cyber threat landscape.

The Biden administration's latest executive order on AI aims to balance innovation with national security, economic competitiveness, and environmental sustainability.

The question shifts the focus from the far more critical issues of whether policy goals are clear and realistic and if sanctions can help.

In the midst of the first-ever round of AI-influenced elections globally, it’s important to guard against a false sense of security.