When Congress cedes its constitutional role in foreign affairs, U.S. policy is left to the president — and subject to change every four or eight years.
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s Vladimir Putin dealing with Joe Biden, or is he dealing with the United States of America?
That is not an easy question to answer.
Conservatives are uncomfortable talking about defects in the American constitutional system, but there are a few, and the presidency is one of them: An office that ought to involve very little more than being chief executive officer of the executive branch of the federal government has mutated into a kind of elected princedom, insistently at the center of American political life, overawing the legislature, hectoring and threatening the judiciary, and arrogating to itself new powers year after …
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