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Topic: War powers

Woman holds an upside down US flag to protest against President Donald Trump outside the US Capitol ahead of his joint address to Congress in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

War could tap Trump's darkest impulses

Heather Digby Parton
Fraklin Roosevelt signing the declaration of war on Dec. 8, 1941. (AP Photo)

Why America won't declare war

Matthew Fay
(Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via AP)

trump's gonna need the votes

Taylor Link
(Reuters/Thomas Mukoya)

Marcy Wheeler
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