Congress

By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions.

Panic about a 'rogue clerk' is likely unwarranted—but it's worth paying attention.

A bill to automatically fund the government in an appropriations lapse would end shutdowns—except the Two-Year Clause forbids funding the Army permanently.

The precedents set in the pursuit of Fauci could come back to haunt Republicans or possibly tee up even more politically motivated retribution campaigns in the next Congress.

Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” in Latin America inverts a policy that, properly understood, abided by and reinforced constraints on unilateral presidential force.

If the Senate doesn’t confirm Blanche, he can still run the Justice Department.

GAAIA is the best federal frontier AI safety framework yet proposed, but its sweeping preemption of state AI laws makes it net-negative as written.

A Supreme Court justice says Congress virtually never can reclaim power it delegates to the president. History suggests that it isn’t so.

The criticism of the techniques used in the FBI’s investigation of the false electors plot, much like the critiques of how it was opened, do not bear scrutiny.