Polls show an unprecedented backlash against President Donald Trump’s war in Iran. While Americans’ initial support for past interventions has ranged from 76 percent for the Iraq war in 2008 to 92 ...

Americans have historically supported war or U.S. military action overseas. Several polls show their opinions flipped after strikes in Iran.

A big story with a grand purpose that has bolstered public support for just about every major U.S.-promoted regime change war ...

During the 2024 campaign, Trump said President Joe Biden was too involved in foreign affairs and that electing Kamala Harris would continue getting the U.S. into unnecessary wars. Trump, however, has ...

While the public has historically backed military intervention initially in international conflicts, deep polarization has ...

Most Americans, it seems, have learned something from our recent history, even if this administration has not.

Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Jeremy Poland / Getty; 2025 PLANET LABS PBC / MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES. The judgment that neither the Constitution; nor the War Powers Resolution, a 1973 law ...

I never imagined I’d miss being lied to by George W. Bush and his henchmen. When the Bush administration wanted to go to war with Iraq, it undertook a full-court press to propagandize the American ...

“My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. On my ...