Congress’ hemorrhaging of power was stark Saturday morning, as many Americans woke up to the news that President Trump had initiated war with Iran without bothering to preemptively justify the ...

With docile GOP majorities controlling both chambers, Congress is willingly surrendering its constitutional and political powers in foreign affairs to a mad king who enjoys pressing buttons and ...

Working in the voting rights space means preparing for the worst: that the Court invalidates Section 2 entirely, finding it unconstitutional. Should the Court invalidate Section 2 in full, it would ...

So, as a matter of psychological balancing and self-care more than strategy, he is leaning heavily into the presidential prerogative powers where his power is most untrammeled, where the loss of ...

Two things occur to me about President Trump’s overnight attack on Iran. The first is one we’ve discussed many times. The issue with this attack or war isn’t just the lack of consultation with ...

In the past, Trump has expressed an openness to a federal takeover as a way to stem projected Republican losses in November.

Immediately giving lie to Vice President JD Vance’s statement earlier this week that there is “no chance” any war with Iran would inspire “a Middle Eastern war for years with no end in sight,” ...

They could have married political opportunism with an earnest desire to protect people again if they’d been willing to reform ...

The Twitter account of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo is deleting tweets it sent out regarding an anti-Muslim film by a filmmaker in the U.S. after a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Libya was killed by ...

On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Trump-aligned activists are pitching the president on a draft executive order that would declare an “emergency,” relying on debunked claims of foreign ...

President Trump’s Justice Department is doubling down on its months-long crusade to access sensitive voter information from red and blue states across the country. As it currently stands, the DOJ is ...

Last fall it was the pensive faces of James Comey’s wife and daughters and son-in-law stuck in the hall with a crowd of ...