We live in a warmaking empire, where war is being waged indiscriminately in order to control and acquire resources -- namely oil in Iraq, and natural gas and oil in Afghanistan and the Caspian Sea.

added a blistering opinion in which she upbraided the other branches for dereliction of duties regarding unfettered presidential warmaking, particularly with precision-strike weapons.

Lately, I've been in communication with a reserve officer deployed in Iraq. He has a remarkably dry wit and jokes about the terrible food of the army ("Man cannot live on MREs alone. Well ...

Gen. Qasem Soleimani, deriding Democrats with petty schoolyard taunts and mocking the very idea that Congress should act to constrain his warmaking powers. In so doing, Trump demonstrated ...

For many long months now, media attention has been riveted on unfolding events in the Middle East. Billions of words have been printed and broadcast, beamed up into satellite transmitters and then ...

Congress can end unfettered executive warmaking by deciding to. That might not require, but would be facilitated by, enacting the Constitutional War Powers Resolution. Introduced last week by Rep.

Antagonists are perverse that way. They have their own agendas and their own warmaking methods. They need not conform to ours—and should not if they want to win. In that sense the Taliban ...

You’re not alone. But we can’t let that paralyze us, because there’s work to be done. One of our most important jobs as journalists right now is shining a light where powerful people want ...

Here are seven obvious lessons of Iraq`s invasion of Kuwait that still aren`t obvious enough to the world: 1. The Middle East is a dangerous neighborhood. Another, even older way of putting it is ...

The multi-pronged legislation would significantly curtail the executive branch’s power in both the warmaking and arms sales sectors, reversing a trend that has led to the White House largely ...

Still, it’s hard to come down on him too hard over this. It’s up to Congress to defend its authority in the warmaking arena, and they’re tacitly agreeing that Obama’s actions have been ...

Congress can end unfettered executive warmaking by deciding to. That might not require, but would be facilitated by, enacting the Constitutional War Powers Resolution. Introduced last week by Rep.