When One Man Decides: Trump, Iran, and the Collapse of Congressional Power

Trump’s Iran standoff shows what happens when presidential instinct replaces democratic process.

Over the past week, the U.S. has edged dangerously close to a new military conflict in the Middle East. The fragile nuclear negotiations with Iran, initiated earlier this spring, intending to revive diplomacy, collapsed abruptly after Israel launched a major airstrike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Iran responded with missile and drone attacks. The U.S.…