Title: Why the next president may have more power than usual - The Washington Post
Headings: Why the next president may have more power than usual
Why the next president may have more power than usual
Clinton and Trump are making a lot of promises they can't keep, but they still could be more powerful than usual as president.
What are other areas in which a president really does exercise power?
Is it harmful to make these campaign promises that the president can’t really keep?

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Obviously, some of these proposals will be easier to fulfill than others. There are some areas in which the U.S. president can act almost unilaterally, and others that lie almost entirely out of the president's control. But for voters who haven't taken a civics class in years, it may be hard to distinguish one from the other. So which election promises is your candidate actually likely to keep? Bernadette Meyler, a constitutional scholar at Stanford Law School, weighed in. AD
This interview has been edited for length and clarity. AD
How much power does the president really have? Do people believe there’s more power in the office than there really is? People definitely imagine the president has more authority than he or she actually does.