The executive director of The American Conservative discusses Trump's meeting with Netanyahu, support for Ukraine, MAGA schisms, and the president's "grand strategy" on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
The City of Peace has been a locus of conflict for a very long time—a story that continues to this day.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is considering whether the president properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D–Calif.) discusses the War Powers Resolution he co-sponsored with Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.), the Israel-Iran conflict, and why the antiestablishment left and right must work together.
Those who pushed for Trump to attack Iran are now moving the goalposts for success.
Presidents have chafed against the War Powers Resolution since it was first signed.
War with Iran was a risky, destructive gamble. But the worst outcome has been avoided, for now.
Plus: Strait of Hormuz possibly closing, NYC's socialist nonsense hopefully coming to a close, and more...
Plus: A criminal justice case that managed to unite Alito and Gorsuch.
Trump now has a choice between exiting from a position of strength—or jumping further into an endless war.
On Sunday talk shows, the vice president made the case for bombing Iran—a notable shift from his previous anti-war rhetoric.
Plus: The Trump administration toys with regime change in Iran, our own constitutional regime takes another hit, a mystery driver joyrides on the National Mall, and more...
The strikes violate both the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Act. Whether they are good policy is a more difficult question. This could turn out to be a rare instance where one of Trump's illegal actions has beneficial results.
Trump's attack on Iran plainly violates the War Powers Act. Limits on executive power are most important when they are inconvenient.
The attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a risky gamble. And it was completely by choice.
Iranians are already beginning to flee to neighboring countries.
With lives on the line, whether to wage war shouldn’t be decided by one person.
A veteran CIA analyst says Israel's attack on Iran was unjustified and that America should not support its war on the latest Just Asking Questions episode.
Plus: Iran strikes an Israeli hospital, Social Security and Medicare are still running out of money, Trump erects a giant flagpole, and more…
House Republicans' budget would spend billions of dollars on the F-35's successor before the current model is even up to par.
Neither American hawks nor Israeli planners intend on allowing for a simple, quick U.S. intervention in Iran.
Plus: How many Iranians are there anyway, polling shows minimal support for a war with Iran, and more...
Plus: A bipartisan effort to prevent American involvement in the war, ICE workplace raids to begin again, and more...
Plus: Suspect in Minnesota shootings arrested, Iran and Israel still fighting, Ross Ulbricht speaks, and more...
The Trump administration, which was ready to negotiate on Sunday, is now gambling on an all-out war.
Trump's policy here is yet another example of abusive invocation of emergency powers.
Americans shouldn’t have to read the tea leaves to know about life-and-death decisions made by their government.
There are now initial contributions by Andy Craig, Tarnell Brown, Aaron Ross Powell, Jonathan Blanks, and myself, plus response essays.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine has a clear path to victory. The Ukrainian drone attack last week and the Russian air raids on Friday don't change that.
Democrats keep trying to out-hawk Republicans, even though the mood in America has shifted toward diplomacy.
When anyone can have an air force, superpowers aren't as powerful as they used to be.
The brief was filed on behalf of the Brennan Center, the Cato Institute, law-of-war scholar Prof. John Dehn, and myself.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author discusses the enduring roots of Middle Eastern conflict, the rise and fall of cultural panics, and why Texas may be the blueprint—and battleground—for America's future.
Diplomacy is better than war in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran. But that doesn't mean it's easy.
Legal scholar Rebecca Ingber offers some strong arguments against deference in this context.
In a 2-1 ruling, the Court ruled Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act cannot supersede a settlement barring deportation of a group of migrants. One judge also held the AEA was invoked illegally.
In a badly flawed decision, a federal district court ruled that Trump can invoke the AEA because the Tren de Aragua drug gang's activities amount to a "predatory incursion."
The president’s speech in Saudi Arabia promised a new course for U.S. policy in the Middle East. Can he deliver?
Sitting on the sidelines let America play neutral mediator and talk down both sides.
Some players like the game to mimic the real world. Others like to play as Gandhi but nuke their enemies into oblivion.
The pendulum within Trump’s Middle East policy has swung back toward deal making, for now.
The Southern District of New York rules Trump invoked the Act illegally, because there is no "invasion" or "predatory incursion."
The president wants to develop the F-47 fighter jet 60 years before the F-35 is scheduled to retire.
A training slideshow reveals how deluded American leaders continue to be about the Iraq War, more than two decades later.
Trump has hired a notorious hawk as his national security adviser—and fired that adviser after getting in the way of delicate diplomatic talks—in each of his two terms.
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