U.S. Congress

Washington isn’t behaving like a competent great power due to partisan gridlock, recycling of discredited ideas, and a lack of focus on real threats.

Moderates want to give U.S. President Joe Biden more war powers to stave off a Chinese invasion. Progressives don’t agree.

The war on terror is a constitutional aberration. The U.S. legislature must reclaim its war powers from an overempowered executive branch.

Republican lawmakers grilled Biden’s top diplomat over the end to the United States’ Afghan war.

Sen. Ted Cruz wages an unprecedented partisan fight with the U.S. president over a Russian pipeline project, hobbling the administration’s foreign policy.

U.S. international security cooperation urgently needs an overhaul by Congress.

The ongoing detention of the children of a key U.S. counterterrorism partner is just the latest irritant in U.S.-Saudi relations.

Senators quietly press U.S. President Joe Biden to reassess U.S.-Nigeria relations amid human rights concerns.

They say the effort seeks to reverse decades of encroachment by the executive branch.

It’s still unclear if the Senate bill can garner enough Republican votes to pass.

Biden’s move to slash dozens of older planes and drones is being met with resistance on Capitol Hill.

… But don’t tell him that.

It’s been 18 years since the invasion, after all.

Chris Coons to deliver a tough message to Abiy Ahmed.

A $12 billion funding boost aims to reverse some of the Trump damage.

Lawmakers want Biden to speed up filling senior diplomatic posts.

Benghazi cloistered U.S. diplomats. Lawmakers want to change that.

Democrats in Congress signaled they were uneasy with the move and are demanding answers from the White House.

Torn between mending ties with Germany or Republicans in Congress, the Biden administration takes a softer line on Nord Stream 2 than some lawmakers expected.