When President Donald Trump ordered an armada of naval vessels, fighter planes, bombers and high-tech surveillance drones to the Middle East, …
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As critics question President Trump’s motivations for war on Iran, it’s not just about politics. It’s about the Constitution and whether Congress has any hope of checking the president’s warmaking.
Trump’s Iran war is historically unique in one critically important way: Early on, the war is not popular with the American public.
At the tail end of the Vietnam War, Congress engaged in a breathtaking act of legislative assertion, affirming that lawmakers’ held the power to declare war – not the president.
As the unrepentant and unreconstructed Democrat Jim Salmon recently remembered, with minor garbling of facts, I joined him and his fellow part…
If you’re of a certain age, you watched scores of movies and TV shows that condemned vigilantism: "The Ox-Bow Incident," "Hang-Em High," episo…
At a time when questions about the rule of law are in the air, it is important to remember that Donald Trump hasn't overturned Isaac Newton's …
The Ford Edsel. New Coke. The Sony Betamax. Theranos. Google Glass. Yugoslavia. The 1964 Philadelphia Phillies. The "Breakfast at Tiffany's" m…
In the 1960 presidential campaign, John Kennedy accused the Eisenhower/Nixon administration of allowing a “missile gap” to arise between the S…