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.
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.
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.
The attack on Iranian nuclear sites is a risky gamble. And it was completely by choice.
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.
Neither American hawks nor Israeli planners intend on allowing for a simple, quick U.S. intervention in Iran.
Plus: A bipartisan effort to prevent American involvement in the war, ICE workplace raids to begin again, and more...
Americans shouldn’t have to read the tea leaves to know about life-and-death decisions made by their government.
The White House accidentally leaked military plans in Yemen to a journalist—and demonstrated how unconstitutional U.S. war making has become.
Trump was considered reckless for wanting to start a war at the end of his term. Now, Biden is doing the same.
Establishment hawks will be running the State Department and National Security Council, but Trump has peppered in some antiestablishment mavericks too.
The Republican senator said it would “take a Democratic president” to commit American troops to defend the Saudi kingdom, according to a new book.
Both Democrats and Republicans who opposed war with Iran in 2020 are looking the other way while Biden unilaterally sends Americans into one.
Washington risks Americans’ lives in wars of choice, then uses their deaths to justify more war.
Kamala Harris couldn’t realistically say how she would end the war in Gaza, and Donald Trump couldn’t realistically say how he would end the war in Ukraine.
While the former congressman cares a lot about war powers, he has often flip-flopped on actually enforcing Congress’ red lines.
As Israeli-Lebanese violence heats up, the Biden administration is quietly promising to get the United States involved.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
Washington quietly funded Israeli-Iranian proxy wars for years. Now American men and women are directly involved.
On Friday, the Texas representative will introduce a resolution rebuking recent pushes to conduct military operations against Mexican cartels without Mexico’s consent or congressional authorization.
Washington is doing a poor job of monitoring whether the weapons it sends to Ukraine are ending up in the right hands.
U.S. counterterrorism action in Somalia hasn’t been approved by Congress, but it rages on anyway.
Like AUMFs before it, Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s proposed authorization would lead to less transparency in conflicts and more unilateral decision making.
“Defend the Guard” laws would keep state troops out of conflicts that Congress hasn’t authorized.
The bill is the most far-reaching recent proposal of its kind.
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