260. Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship?
260. Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship?  
Podcast: Freakonomics Radio
Published On: Thu Sep 22 2016
Description: Sure, we all pay lip service to the Madisonian system of checks and balances. But as one legal scholar argues, presidents have been running roughshod over the system for decades. The result? An accumulation of power that's turned the presidency into a position the founders wouldn't have recognized.