Cameroon’s 92-year-old President Paul Biya, who has held an iron grip on the Central African nation for nearly 43 years has ...

President Donald Trump's decision to order the bombings of three nuclear sites in Iran has heightened concern about the ...

WASHINGTON — Ever since President Truman sent U.S. troops to fight in Korea in 1950, presidents have claimed broad wartime power to act without first seeking the approval of Congress. But they ...

PDF Version. A review of Michael Beschloss, “Presidents of War” (Crown Books, 2018). *** The U.S. Constitution vests the president with “executive power” and provides that “The President ...

The one such proposal to actually get voted on, put forth by the presidential-powers skeptic George Mason, called for a council consisting of representatives from the various states selected by ...

Cato Institute challenges Trump's emergency tariffs in new amicus brief, arguing the administration overstepped authority ...

So maintaining the presidency's power to appeal to the public to stay with it, and it's going to be many presidents if they're right. That's an incredible challenge for leadership in the country ...

Indeed, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. expressed a more expansive view of presidential war powers after eight years in the Obama White House than he did in 2007 during an earlier run ...

In 1973, in response to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution to check the president's power to enter armed conflict without Congress' consent.

It is time for Congress to investigate the emergency authorities given to the chief executive. By Gary Hart Mr. Hart is a former Democratic senator from Colorado and former presidential candidate ...

Trump abused the president's powers. Democrats say never again. A set of bills sharply limiting presidential power could benefit both parties — but won't necessarily win bipartisan support.

And Congress left the president’s power because at that point, Congress had options. And what Congress chose to do was to preserve the powers without that check.