Introducing “Master Plan: The Kingmakers,” from The Lever
This episode of Masterplan reveals how the modern expansion of presidential power in the U.S. is not a sudden anomaly under Donald Trump, but the culmination of a decades-long campaign rooted in the unitary executive theory. It traces this trajectory back to Richard Nixon’s abuses of po
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