Just three days after 9/11, Congress authorized a major expansion of executive power: the President could now wage war against terrorism without prior approval. The resolution was called the Authorization for Use of Military Force, and it passed almost unanimously. Its reauthorization, in 2002, brought our country to war with Iraq, and has been used to deploy American forces all over the world. More than twenty years later, the mood in the country has changed dramatically, and lawmakers in both parties are pushing to roll back the President’s discretion to use force. A bill to revoke the A.U.M.F. passed the Senate 66–30 a few weeks ago, and it is expected to pass the House as well. David Remnick talks with the senators who led that effort—Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, and Todd Young, a Republican from Indiana—and with Representative Barbara Lee of California, who, in 2001, cast the sole dissenting vote in all of Congress.
Plus, David Remnick remembers the beloved cartoonist Ed Koren, a fixture of the magazine for more than half a century.
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Geoffrey Hinton: “It’s Far Too Late” to Stop Artificial Intelligence
A Rise in Antisemitism, at Home and Abroad
Emerald Fennell’s Anatomy of Desire
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Is a “Win-Win” Still Possible in Policing?
Sybrina Fulton: “Trayvon Martin Could Have Been Anybody’s Son”
From On the Media: We Don’t Talk About Leonard Leo
Is there a Path Forward for Gaza and Israel?
”Fellow Travelers”: A Showtime Series Explores a Forgotten Witch Hunt
Spike Lee on His “Dream Project,” a Joe Louis Bio-Pic
Rodrigo Duterte’s Deadly Promise
Werner Herzog Defends His “Ecstatic” Approach to the Truth
Rubén Blades Wasn’t Supposed to Be a Salsa Star
Al Gore on the Climate Crisis: “We Have a Switch We Can Flip”
Introducing Critics at Large: The Myth-Making of Elon Musk
Should Biden Push for Regime Change in Russia?
Olivia Rodrigo Talks with David Remnick
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