Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME. Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME. Ensuring safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz is not one of the ...

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. “In a matter of weeks, the Iran war has generated massive uncertainty about ...

The Constitution’s crown jewel was the entrustment of the power to take the nation to war exclusively to Congress, leaving to the president authority to respond unilaterally to sudden attacks that had ...

As conflict escalates in the Middle East, many have asked the question of who in power can declare war, the president or Congress? While the U.S. Constitution clearly states that Congress has the ...

The prime minister of Lebanon made an urgent appeal Thursday to President Donald Trump to intervene in the cause of peace, calling for an immediate ceasefire and direct talks with Israel. Nawaf Salam ...

As President Donald Trump’s war with Iran continues, some right-wing commentators are urging the administration to “declare victory” and “get out” of Iran “before it gets much worse.” Some right-wing ...

President Donald Trump likes his military campaigns short and victorious. The quick overnight strike that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro from power is his preferred model of warmaking. But the U.S ...

Recent rulings in long-running school desegregation cases highlight why we believe the continuing oversight by federal courts of these cases is important and should not be short-circuited. Earlier ...

President Trump said late Sunday that he is not ready to declare victory against Iran despite saying the U.S. has decimated the country militarily and economically. “No, I’m not going to do that.

Conservative Writer Matt Lewis unpacks the risks of the U.S. getting stuck in another Middle East quagmire. ‘NATO alliance effectively destroyed’: Trump threatens allies over Iran war Everyone had the ...

White House artificial-intelligence and crypto czar David Sacks called for an end to the war in Iran, even as the Trump administration continues to escalate the conflict. “We should try to find the ...

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