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As the region spasms, the clash between Israel and Hezbollah is gathering force.

Past conflicts eroded Congress's ability to decide when to go to war. Donald Trump's attack on Iran destroyed it.

The new mayor's plans require funding. How will he get it?

The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense.

Representative Greg Landsman explains his hope that the conflict remains limited but also creates an entirely new Middle East.

In Tuesday night's twin primaries for the U.S. Senate in Texas, each party was navigating a balance between its current iteration and what may replace it--"in one case, delicately, and in the other, not so much," Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes.

On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away.

Both parties' primaries for U.S. Senate have been fiercely competitive, while Governor Greg Abbott looks to take a first step toward securing an unprecedented fourth term.

The state's primaries on March 3rd will determine candidates for House and Senate races in November, with major implications for the balance of power in Congress.

So far, explanations are few and the goals--from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to have "obliterated"--are many.