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.
Colson Whitehead on “Crook Manifesto”
Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director
Donovan Ramsey on “When Crack Was King”
A Mysterious Third Party Enters the Presidential Race
How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt
The Conspiracies of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Beyoncé Takes the Stage
Russia’s No-Good, Very Failed Coup, and Jill Lepore on Amending the Constitution
Jonathan Mitchell, a Prominent Anti-Abortion Lawyer, on Restraining the Power of the Supreme Court
A Year of Change for a North Dakota Abortion Clinic, and the Composer John Williams
Singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun, Plus Bryan Washington
Dexter Filkins on the Dilemma at the Border
From “On the Media”: Seditious Conspiracy
The New York Times’ Publisher on the Future of Journalism, and the Poet Paul Tran
A Gay Russian, Exiled in Ireland
Should We, and Can We, Put the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence?
The Director Rob Marshall on Halle Bailey as “The Little Mermaid”
E. Jean Carroll and Roberta Kaplan on Defamatory Trump, and Dexter Filkins on Ron DeSantis
Jill Lepore on the Joy of Gardening
Behind the Scenes with Tom Hanks
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