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January 26, 2024
Grace Segers
Lawmakers Want Biden to Ask Permission Before Bombing Yemen Indiscriminately
The administration's escalation of an open-ended conflict with the Houthis has reawakened the long-running debate over who has the power to go to war.
April 3, 2023
Ana Marie Cox
The Most Lasting Damage of the Bush Era Was Not the Iraq War
While neoconservative foreign policy has crumbled, the pro-life project has succeeded—against long odds.
March 29, 2023
Prem Thakker
Senate Votes to Repeal Iraq War Authorizations, 20 Years After U.S. Invasion
The vote repeals two AUMFs that authorized the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 invasion.
March 16, 2023
Prem Thakker
The List of Senators Who Voted Not to Repeal the 1991 and 2002 Iraq War Authorizations
Unclear why the list on this AUMF vote is this long.
March 16, 2023
Prem Thakker
Senate Moves To Finally Repeal 1991 and 2002 Iraq War Authorizations
The symbolic AUMF vote comes ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
February 10, 2023
Grace Segers
Congress May Finally Decide That the War in Iraq Is Over
Lawmakers are poised to rescind the blank-check authorizations to use military force that the executive branch was handed decades ago.
September 18, 2021
Jason Linkins
How Congress Created the
Peril
of Trump’s Harrowing Final Days
Bob Woodward’s new book reports that General Mark Milley feared Trump might attack China. Such a scenario is only possible because lawmakers ceded their war-making power to the executive branch.
March 5, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Does Biden Want Less War or Just War With More Rules?
The administration has promised to revise the post-9/11 legal basis for permanent war. It’s not enough.
February 12, 2015
Joel Gillin
Obama Isn't Ready to Give Up His Broad War Powers
December 29, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
The Forever War Was Supposed to End in 2014. Instead, Obama Doubled Down.
November 14, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
Next Year Will Be Too Late for Congress to Debate Our War Against the Islamic State
September 23, 2014
Brian Beutler
Obama's Bombing Syria Without Authorization—and Congress Couldn't Be Happier
September 16, 2014
Jessica Schulberg
Obama's Legal Basis for Bombing Iraq Keeps Shifting
The 2002 AUMF is politically disastrous for the Obama administration
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