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The Iran War demonstrates once again the limitations of the War Powers Act. The War Powers Act of 1973 mandates that the President has 60 days to end hostilities if there has been no Congressional authorization – though he can seek a 30-day extension. The same law gives Congress the ability to end hostilities by voting on a resolution to end military action, subject to Presidential veto.

For millions of Americans, affordability is no longer an abstract economic discussion in Washington. It is the reality they confront every week at the gas pump, in the grocery aisle, and when opening monthly bills. Rising fuel prices ripple through nearly every corner of the economy, increasing the cost of transporting food, manufacturing goods, delivering products and operating businesses. When energy costs surge, families feel it immediately, and so do employers struggling

The adoption of digital signatures for petitions will fundamentally change the way that Swiss citizens engage with their government, launching a new era in which the power of citizens to use the initiative and referendum is just a click away. Advances in cybersecurity will ensure the secrecy and integrity of digital signatures.

The Constitution guarantees people the freedom to vote and petition their government. In the digital age, honoring those freedoms means embracing tools that make participation easier, safer, and more reliable.

As the federal government has become more autocratic and dismissive of citizen petitions, interest in the petition process has waned. The unprecedented levels of debt incurred by the federal government in recent years have triggered renewed interest in direct democracy. Citizen groups are now challenging the failure of Congress to record and count these state petitions.

We should expect our European allies in NATO to pursue their own interests and protect their sovereignty. They may decide that NATO is no longer in their interests and end the alliance. They will certainly not participate in a NATO alliance in which the United States launches war without warning or consultation. If the European countries decide to continue the alliance, it will require a fundamental change to the organization’s governing structure.

If current fiscal trends continue, the greatest threat to American prosperity won’t come from abroad; rather, it will come from Washington’s inability to control its own spending. For decades, federal outlays have grown faster than the incomes of the people who fund them. The result is a debt trajectory that compounds silently but relentlessly, shifting the burden of today’s decisions onto future generations. This is not just unsustainable, it is unjust. Economists have long

We have learned a great deal from the governing structures created to guarantee safe passage for shipping through other straits, including the Suez Canal. The 1888 Constantinople Convention guaranteed safe passage through the Suez Canal in peace and war. The Suez Canal Authority was created to administer the treaty. Since the Suez Crisis, all nations have recognized this governance structure’s neutrality as the legal framework for access to the canal.

For decades, incomes of families in the upper middle class have grown more rapidly than that for middle-income families. This decompression of incomes has resulted in greater income inequality, and for many middle-income families, the gateway to the upper middle class has been closing. Loss of upward mobility and decompression of incomes is a major source of dissatisfaction and conflict in American society.