Gene Healy
Senior Scholar
Gene Healy is a Senior Scholar at the Reason Foundation. His research focuses on the growth of executive power and the institutional pathologies of the modern presidency.
He is the author of The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power and Indispensable Remedy: The Broad Scope of the Constitution’s Impeachment Power. He has testified before the U.S. Senate, his work has been cited in the House Impeachment Managers’ Trial Brief (2021), and he has been published in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. He holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Healy joined the Reason Foundation after over 20 years at the Cato Institute, where he served most recently as senior vice president for policy. He lives in Leesburg, Virginia with his wife, Caitlyn, and their three ungovernable daughters.
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Impeach Pete Hegseth for the disastrous Iran war
Congress shouldn't be afraid to remove the secretary of defense for his many war crimes and misdemeanors.
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Want to stop the Iran war? Don’t pay the bill
Congress can stop Trump's Iran war by failing to fund it.
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The Senate’s failure to rein in Trump on Iran is part of a long history of Congress abdicating its war powers
War making in "the power of a single man" is not what the Founders intended.
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Can you un-impeach a president?
Democrats may revive impeachment if they take Congress in November. Trump and his allies, meanwhile, want his two impeachments erased.
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Trump realized he can just do things. Who can stop him?
There are far too few checks left on executive power.
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“Mission Accomplished” in Libya?
The Obama Doctrine is nothing to celebrate.
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The Contradictions of a Conservative
The good, the bad, and the ugly in Rick Perry's Fed Up
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Nixon’s Big Government Legacy
Remembering Richard Nixon's wage and price controls
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Obamaphiles Still Longing for Camelot
Despite setbacks, failures, and outright betrayals, Obamaphiles in the intelligentsia are finding it hard to fall out of love with "the One"
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Where Are the Reality-Based Candidates?
Surveying the 2012 Republican presidential field
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Lessons from Norway’s Horror
Don't use a tragedy to score partisan points.
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Return to Normalcy
When Al Qaeda is defeated, can we have our liberties back?
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The Ultimate Bridge to Nowhere
Saying goodbye to the space program
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The Pernicious Perp Walk
What the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case reveals about spotlight-hungry prosecutors
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Beware the Depends Bomber
The TSA's latest ritual humiliation of an innocent traveler
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Harold Koh Is the Gollum of Foggy Bottom
What Obama's undeclared war in Libya reveals about the corrupting effects of power
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The Lessons of Weinergate
Politicians are less responsible and much dumber than those they seek to rule.
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Obama’s Imperial Presidency
Executive power continues to expand.
