The question is not whether a president is strong enough to exercise power, but whether the president is restrained enough to obey the laws he has sworn to uphold, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
War in the Twilight
Tag: Congress
Hormuz: US & Israel Escalated the Known Risks
Washington has converted a military operation into a strategic endurance contest in which Iran possesses an exceptionally powerful economic weapon, writes Dan Steinbock.
Twilight’s Last Gleaming
The central question should be: What are the government’s legal authorities and limits? Instead, writes Andrew Napolitano, that question has become: What can the president get away with?
Jeffrey Sachs: Fauci Must Come Clean
We should open the files to an independent inquiry into the origins of Covid-19 with subpoena power, insulated from agencies whose conduct is in question, write Jeffrey Sachs and Neil L. Harrison.
Elon Musk’s Fortune Comes From Not Paying Taxes
If it weren’t for laws that permit the wealthy to endlessly defer paying taxes by keeping their gains unrealized, there would be no trillionaires, write Stephen Land and Bob Lord.
US TAX DAY: Avg. Taxpayer Paid $4K for War Last Year
Americans spent about 50 days working and paying taxes last year just to feed the war machine — with 23 days going to pay Pentagon contractors and their millionaire CEOs, Lindsay Koshgarian and Hanna Homestead report.
Vijay Prashad: US Aggression Across the World
In its latest statement, No Cold War takes stock of the long history of U.S. aggression across the world and the need to reject a future of wars without end.
Jeffrey Sachs to Trump: Give Back the Tariff Money
The White House and Congress can and should provide relief to American families who bore the costs of these illegal tariffs. The administration has the responsibility to design such relief.
DHS Turns Warehouses into Mass Detention Camps
2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in over two decades, writes Julia Norman. Detention facilities lack climate control, ventilation, running water, sanitation, medical services.
Mock Strategy
The Trump administration’s NSS represents the sort of hodgepodge you get when nobody oversees and coordinates the document’s drafting.