1. The New York Times thinks Joe Biden is going too fast with the executive orders. The editorial is chiefly valuable as a distillation of the Times propensity for a myopic Mugwumpism. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/opinion/biden-executive-orders.html

2. In late 19th century, the Times was a big advocate for the Mugwumps, an upper-middle class faction obsessed with civill service reform at the expense of everything else going on (Reconstruction, the KKK, mass unemployment & strikes, mass foreclosures). Times is still the same

3. Being the Mugwump mooks that they are, the Times is fretting over executive orders as if there hadn't been a botched putsch earlier this month which explains why Biden needs to demonstrate his authority. More here: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-executive-order-times/