17 Sept 2026, 13:30 •
Jan Fingerland: Proces aneb Kafkovská dohra atentátů z 11. září
(Jan Fingerland | Český rozhlas Plus (Komentáře) )
Reading: The Chálid Šajch Muhammad case shows how the U.S. post-9/11 military justice system became paralysed and Kafkaesque.
11 Sept 2026, 12:00 •
How the War on Terror Turned 9/11 Into a Permanently Open Wound
(Matthew Petti | Reason )
Reading: The War on Terror deliberately prevented closure and justice, turning 9/11 into a permanent emergency
10 Sept 2026, 13:00 •
Commentaar Terrorismebestrijding De keiharde reactie van VS en bondgenoten op 9/11 heeft de wereld er niet veiliger op gemaakt. Integendeel zelfs Terugdenken aan 9/11 kan niet zonder te kijken naar…
(NRC )
Reading: The post-9/11 response made the world less safe and eroded law, restraint, and Western legitimacy
11 Sept 2026, 08:00 •
Vinte e cinco anos depois das torres
(Miguel Baumgartner | Visão )
Reading: 9/11 reshaped security, geopolitics and democracy in ways that still define the 21st century
11 Sept 2026, 11:03 •
We’re still underrating 9/11’s impact
(Matthew Yglesias | Slow Boring )
Reading: The September 11 attacks were a hinge point whose contingent aftermath is still underestimated
11 Sept 2026, 13:00 •
Opinie 25 jaar 9/11 De geschiedenis slaat niemand over Vijfentwintig jaar geleden vonden de terreuraanslagen in de VS plaats. Zowel de aanloop naar 9/11 als de daaropvolgende ‘war on terror’ laten…
(Lotfi el Hamidi | NRC )
Reading: 9/11 and the war on terror were the foreseeable result of earlier US policy and exposed Western complicity and hypocrisy.
11 Sept 2026, 10:00 •
25 Years After 9/11, What Have We Learned?
(Christian Caryl | Washington Monthly )
Reading: Bin Laden's miscalculations and Bush's Iraq diversion made the war on terror strategically damaging and politically blundering
12 Sept 2026, 10:49 •
Hate didn’t win
(Ed West | Wrong Side of History )
Reading: 9/11 failed to produce lasting anti-Muslim backlash and instead reshaped politics through unintended consequences
11 Sept 2026, 10:58 •
25 years after 9/11, have the terrorists won?
(Timothy Snyder | EUobserver )
Reading: The US response to 9/11, especially Iraq and Homeland Security, empowered authoritarian politics and made America less free
08 Sept 2026, 05:05 •
25 years after 9/11, the US still doesn't know 'why they hate us'
(Scott Hibbard | Responsible Statecraft )
Reading: The Bush administration's post-9/11 militarized response misdiagnosed Islamist militancy and made the threat worse
11 Sept 2026, 13:22 •
Čo zmenil 11. september?
(Dávid Polák | .týždeň )
Reading: 9/11 transformed security, geopolitics, and attitudes toward Islam, and its long aftereffects still define the West
11 Sept 2026, 14:56 •
O 11 de Setembro e o mundo a que deu lugar
(José Pedro Teixeira Fernandes | Público )
Reading: The US response to the September 11 attacks accelerated the end of American unipolarity and weakened US power
10 Sept 2026, 20:57 •
El 11-S que olvidamos
(María Ramírez | eldiario.es )
Reading: The September 11 attacks are being forgotten, and that forgetting distorts how we understand today’s world
11 Sept 2026, 05:00 •
La larga sombra del 11S: 25 años de guerras y desestabilización en Oriente Próximo
(Carla Fibla | infoLibre )
Reading: The September 11 attacks set off wars and regional destabilization that still shape the Middle East and US policy
11 Sept 2026, 08:01 •
Svijet nakon 11. septembra: dan koji nije bio prekretnica
(Vijesti | Vijesti — Kolumne )
Reading: September 11 was tragic but not the turning point; later geopolitical shifts mattered more, and terrorism is still a growing threat
10 Sept 2026, 10:42 •
9/11 – Dammbruch und Brandbeschleuniger
(Reinhard Schulze | Journal 21 )
Reading: 9/11 primarily enabled the collapse of rule-based order and accelerated ultrareligious and imperial-political transformations
11 Sept 2026, 07:47 •
Macro | 🕒 Il secolo dirottato 🕤
(Cesare Alemanni | Macro )
Reading: 9/11 redirected U.S. power toward the War on Terror and away from the China challenge, with disastrous consequences in Iraq and beyond
11 Sept 2026, 06:00 •
Štefan Hríb z New Yorku: Amerika 25 rokov po
(Štefan Hríb | .týždeň )
Reading: America has changed from admired solidarity to Trump-era ridicule, revealing Western resilience and decline in prestige
13 Sept 2026, 09:02 •
Epäuskon viikko New Yorkissa
(Nordic Ledger by Mika Horelli | Nordic Ledger )
Reading: September 11 unleashed two decades of war, expanded surveillance, and lasting anti-Muslim suspicion, while teaching too little about how to avoid repeating that logic
12 Sept 2026, 01:00 •
Colin Sheridan: We watched 9/11 happen. Then we forgot what the pictures were telling us
(Colin Sheridan | Irish Examiner )
Reading: 9/11's lesson was universal human equality, and the West failed by devaluing victims in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Gaza
11 Sept 2026, 23:05 •
EE.UU. honra a las víctimas del 11-S
(Editorial La Vanguardia | La Vanguardia )
Reading: The September 11 attacks left the United States and the world less safe and less free, while the war on terror failed.
11 Sept 2026, 13:46 •
After September
(Samantha Hancox-Li | Liberal Currents )
Reading: 9/11's legacy was abused by politicians, and its lesson is contingency rather than structural determinism
11 Sept 2026, 07:50 •
Folgen des 11. Septembers: Ein Schlussstrich unter das zwanzigste Jahrhundert
(Andreas Kilb | FAZ )
Reading: September 11 inaugurated a multipolar world disorder in which Islamism, not Marxism, is the West's main adversary.
10 Sept 2026, 16:00 •
Syyskuun 11. päivän iskujen koko merkitys näkyy vasta nyt
(Helsingin Sanomat )
Reading: The September 11 attacks and the wars that followed accelerated the end of Pax Americana and exposed Europe's strategic vulnerability
11 Sept 2026, 15:30 •
Why 9/11 Baffles Us 25 Years Later
(Michael Hirsh | Foreign Policy )
Reading: 9/11 triggered a strategic disaster that weakened U.S. power, empowered rivals, and was worsened by successive presidents' mistakes.
09 Sept 2026, 18:25 •
The children of 9/11
(Nicholas Harris | New Statesman )
Reading: The September 11 attacks still shape Americans who have no personal memory of them
11 Sept 2026, 15:31 •
The Tower Stones of 9/11
(Jonathan Alter | Washington Monthly )
Reading: 9/11 was exploited for Iraq, and its aftermath hardened America into permanent overreaction and domestic repression
13 Sept 2026, 09:02 •
A week of disbelief in New York
(Nordic Ledger by Mika Horelli | Nordic Ledger )
Reading: The September 11 attacks set in motion war, securitization, anti-Muslim suspicion, and fear politics, and the world has failed to learn how not to repeat them
11 Sept 2026, 13:47 •
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(Bryan C. Del Monte | The Long Memo )
Reading: September 11 showed America's power, vulnerability, and the enduring value of alliances and diplomacy.
12 Sept 2026, 04:50 •
Wegdromen kan niet meer: 25 jaar geleden maakte Al-Qaeda een einde aan ‘het einde van de geschiedenis’
(Bart Jan Spruyt | Wynia's Week )
Reading: 9/11 proved liberal triumphalism wrong and showed that civilizational conflict remains permanent
15 Sept 2026, 10:54 •
Τρομοκρατία και πείνα
(Newsroom | Kathimerini )
Reading: The Palestinian cause has been trapped by Hamas, Iran, and a politics of destruction, while Israel's model should be emulated
11 Sept 2026, 13:48 •
Memento 11. septembra: New York sme my
(Tomáš Zálešák | .týždeň )
Reading: The September 11 attacks transformed global politics by exposing the fragility of the US-led order and straining transatlantic unity.
11 Sept 2026, 08:18 •
25 years since 9/11, what lessons for Europe?
(Dave Keating | Gulf Stream Blues )
Reading: Europe's solidarity after 9/11 was met with little return from Washington
13 Sept 2026, 13:00 •
Opinie 25 jaar 9/11 Na een kwart eeuw werd deze Malinese wielrenner alsnog slachtoffer van 9/11 Na 9/11 dachten Westerse landen vijandige dictaturen met geweld te kunnen veranderen in vriendelijke…
(Maarten van Heems | NRC )
Reading: Western interventions after 9/11 helped destabilize Mali and continue to harm people there
10 Sept 2026, 14:31 •
Der Irak in ökonomischer Disparität
(Makronom )
Reading: China is supplanting the United States as Iraq's main external power through oil and infrastructure, while Washington still controls crucial financial leverage.
16 Sept 2026, 10:00 •
Never Forgetting 9/11 Means Learning Lessons
(Bill Scher | Washington Monthly )
Reading: Bush's pre-9/11 fixation on missile defense helped leave the United States vulnerable, and that strategic failure has been forgotten
10 Sept 2026, 22:00 •
Americans Have Learned Virtually No Lessons From 9/11
(Nick Gillespie | Reason )
Reading: Americans still accept trading civil liberties for security, and post-9/11 overreaction remains largely intact
11 Sept 2026, 13:20 •
America Has Forfeited Its Greatest Strength
(Ali Soufan | The Atlantic )
Reading: America's erosion of trust at home and abroad has brought bin Laden's aim closer to success
11 Sept 2026, 09:55 •
Homeland Security 25 Years Later: Time to Rethink and Rebuild?
(Jeh Johnson | Lawfare )
Reading: DHS was flawed from the start and should be restructured around domestic public safety
10 Sept 2026, 18:59 •
9/11: Mit „Krieg gegen den Terror“ haben USA den Iran gestärkt [premium]
(Wieland Schneider | Die Presse )
Reading: The U.S. war on terror ultimately strengthened Iran and failed to achieve al-Qaida's goals
10 Sept 2026, 18:59 •
9/11: Im „Krieg gegen den Terror“ verspielten die USA ihren Status als Hypermacht [premium]
(Wieland Schneider | Die Presse )
Reading: The War on Terror failed to remake the Middle East and instead strengthened Iran and other adversaries of the United States.
11 Sept 2026, 06:30 •
Kampen mot terror – fra innsiden
(Kai Eide | Dagsavisen )
Reading: The war on terror was driven by American hubris and failed because the United States ignored local realities and overrelied on force
11 Sept 2026, 04:30 •
¿Han ganado los terroristas tras el 11-S?
(Timothy Snyder | El País )
Reading: The post-9/11 U.S. response worsened security, weakened democracy, and helped enable Trump
11 Sept 2026, 08:18 •
How 9/11 helped Israel sell its war on Palestinians to America
(Yousef Munayyer | Al Jazeera Opinion )
Reading: The war on terror let Israel recast Palestinian repression as shared counterterrorism
13 Sept 2026, 13:57 •
The 2001 Watershed
(László Andor )
Reading: 9/11 pushed the US into counterproductive wars, expanded surveillance, and helped create today’s fiscal and strategic weaknesses.
11 Sept 2026, 11:00 •
A Quarter Century of Pain
(Tom Nichols | The Atlantic )
Reading: Post-9/11 America overreacted to terrorism and built harmful security institutions that outlasted the threat
09 Sept 2026, 20:00 •
The Legacy of 9/11: A Surveillance Society
(Robert Kuttner | The American Prospect )
Reading: Post-9/11 security policy and Big Tech surveillance have made Americans less secure and more vulnerable.
10 Sept 2026, 23:01 •
Os EUA no mundo 25 anos depois do 11 de Setembro
(Sónia Sapage | Público )
Reading: The post-9/11 security state has morphed into nationalist anti-immigration fear, making the United States more closed than before
10 Sept 2026, 13:01 •
Helping the Terrorists to Win
(Timothy Snyder | Thinking about... )
Reading: America's post-9/11 choices empowered terrorism, deepened authoritarianism, and worsened climate and war risks
11 Sept 2026, 11:40 •
9/11 Changed Our Politics
(Damon Linker | Persuasion )
Reading: 9/11 transformed the American right into a more bellicose, anti-dissent populism that now resembles Trump-era politics.
11 Sept 2026, 17:34 •
How the U.S. Response to 9/11 Led to the Second Trump Term
(Luke Johnson | Public Sphere )
Reading: Bush's response to 9/11 helped produce the Trump era's war footing, executive overreach, and security-state politics
11 Sept 2026, 06:00 •
¿Es hoy el mundo más inseguro que antes del 11S?
(Juan Rivas | El Orden Mundial )
Reading: The world is more unstable and insecure than before 9/11, despite terrorism having been contained
10 Sept 2026, 15:52 •
Trump, el hijo del 11S
(Jon Salvador | El Orden Mundial )
Reading: The post-9/11 war on terror and surveillance state weakened the United States and enabled Trumpism
10 Sept 2026, 10:52 •
25 Jahre nach dem 11. September: Wer Politik über das Gedenken stellt, lässt die Terroristen gewinnen
(Helena Wittlich | Tagesspiegel )
Reading: Politicizing 9/11 commemoration and excluding elected officials undermines the shared civic response that followed the attacks
11 Sept 2026, 18:29 •
9/11 e uma Aliança Atlântica em crise
(Ana Marcela | ECO )
Reading: Europe must accelerate defence and space sovereignty because US reliability within NATO is weakening
11 Sept 2026, 04:44 •
How America became the Middle East
(Sohrab Ahmari | UnHerd )
Reading: Post-9/11 interventionism hollowed out America and made it resemble the Middle East it tried to remake
08 Sept 2026, 05:05 •
Why 9/11 mastermind KSM still awaiting trial after a quarter century
(John Ryan | Responsible Statecraft )
Reading: The Guantanamo military commissions have become incoherent and unjust because torture-tainted confessions still block accountability
10 Sept 2026, 10:02 •
The 9/11 attacks and the crisis of global liberalism
(Matthew Yglesias | Slow Boring )
Reading: The post-9/11 wars discredited liberalism and helped cause its current global crisis
11 Sept 2026, 14:00 •
Ondřej Konrád: Ozvěny pádu „Dvojčat“ v Čechách
(Ondřej Konrád | Český rozhlas Plus (Komentáře) )
Reading: The Czech response to 9/11 was appropriate, and the wider West now faces subtler but more dangerous trials
14 Sept 2026, 17:00 •
25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
(Lawfare )
Reading: Twenty-five years after 9/11, mass surveillance has expanded beyond its original justification and should be sharply curtailed
13 Sept 2026, 11:58 •
Eylül 11 2001: “Konuşabilir miyiz, konuşmalı mıyız, yoksa konuşmamalı mıyız?”
(Waseem Ahmad Siddiqui | Serbestiyet )
Reading: Islamophobia and mutual listening after 9/11 remain necessary for empathy across divided communities
11 Sept 2026, 03:00 •
9/11 | 25 Jahre nach 9/11: Dieser Satz aus einem geheimen Al-Qaida-Handbuch könnte von Trump sein
(Georgiana Banita | der Freitag )
Reading: Trump exploits the Ground Zero ruins as a personal political myth and revives 9/11-era apocalyptic politics
12 Sept 2026, 11:12 •
Il «trauma storico collettivo» dell'11 settembre
(Valentine Lomellini | Corriere della Sera )
Reading: September 11's real novelty was its victim scale and its trigger for modern counterterrorism cooperation and EU integration
11 Sept 2026, 07:00 •
Trump's Iran campaign echoes the post-9/11 'forever wars'
(RTÉ News | RTÉ Analysis and Comment )
Reading: Trump's Iran war repeats the strategic and political failures of the post-9/11 wars
13 Sept 2026, 14:00 •
Misunderstanding 9/11
(Daniel Byman | Lawfare )
Reading: Post-9/11 U.S. counterterrorism overreacted to an exceptional attack but still produced major long-term gains.
12 Sept 2026, 08:49 •
9/11 at 25: How the ‘War on Terror’ helped mainstream Europe’s far right
(Farid Hafez | Al Jazeera Opinion )
Reading: The War on Terror legitimised European far-right Islamophobia and turned it into electoral power.
09 Sept 2026, 12:00 •
The Anniversary I Wish I Didn’t Share With My Husband
(Ellen S. Bakalian | The Atlantic )
Reading: September 11 should remain understood as a terrorist attack on civilians, and memorializing it preserves that distinction
14 Sept 2026, 06:58 •
How Congress Empowered Presidential War-Making After 9/11
(Julian E. Zelizer | Foreign Policy )
Reading: Congress deliberately expanded presidential war-making after 9/11, and the AUMF still distorts U.S. national security policy
11 Sept 2026, 19:02 •
CIA role in 9/11 plot omitted in new revelations of Saudi role
(The Grayzone )
Reading: The CIA's role in the 9/11 hijackers' recruitment and the cover-up has been systematically omitted from the public story
11 Sept 2026, 17:15 •
How 9/11 Remade American Immigration
(Fiona Harrigan | Reason )
Reading: Post-9/11 immigration controls became a civil liberties disaster that made foreigners in the U.S. subject to secrecy, suspicion, and overreach.
11 Sept 2026, 09:55 •
Ordinary Origins: How 9/11 Built Today's Immigration Enforcement Machine
(Chinmayi Sharma | Lawfare )
Reading: Post-9/11 immigration enforcement is the product of security-driven data sharing that enabled automated surveillance
11 Sept 2026, 16:50 •
A Somali Man With No Serious Criminal Record Is Spending 9/11 in Detention at Guantanamo Bay
(Eric Boehm | Reason )
Reading: Detaining Adam Abdullah at Guantanamo Bay is illegal, unnecessary, and politically theatrical
14 Sept 2026, 19:49 •
9/11’s Legacy of Torture
(Natalie Orpett | Lawfare )
Reading: The United States' failure to punish torture and compensate victims reveals a deep legal failure that must be confronted.
10 Sept 2026, 11:00 •
What the Aftermath of 9/11 Taught Me
(Hillary Rodham Clinton | The Atlantic )
Reading: Government must tell the truth, take responsibility, and act quickly when disaster victims face hidden long-term harms.
08 Sept 2026, 23:13 •
Editor's Notes: You, Too, Can Forget 9/11
(Jason Briggeman | Liberal Currents )
Reading: Trump's presence at national solemnities teaches children that white Republican men are exempt from the rules
11 Sept 2026, 06:00 •
Cosa resta de “La rabbia e l’orgoglio” di Oriana Fallaci: non ha predetto ma plasmato il futuro
(Mariano Croce | Domani )
Reading: Fallaci's post-9/11 rhetoric legitimised Islamophobic discourse later reused by the radical right
11 Sept 2026, 12:30 •
Roman Joch: Čtvrtstoletí od 11. září 2001
(Roman Joch | Český rozhlas Plus (Komentáře) )
Reading: 11 September and its aftermath show Islamism as a totalitarian threat that helped destabilize the Middle East and Europe
11 Sept 2026, 05:00 •
25 años de un crimen que cambió el mundo
(José Enrique de Ayala | infoLibre )
Reading: The September 11 attacks transformed world politics and led the United States into a mistaken war on terror
12 Sept 2026, 12:40 •
„Osama byłby zadowolony”. Afganistan znów jest centrum globalnego dżihadyzmu
(Beata Błaszczyk | Krytyka Polityczna )
Reading: Afghanistan remains a hub of global jihadist recruitment and training, with long-running Western failures enabling it
02 Sept 2026, 00:23 •
25 depois do 11 de Setembro
(Jorge Fernandes | Observador )
Reading: September 11 set in motion America's long decline in credibility, strategic focus, and elite legitimacy, with Europe and NATO now exposed to the consequences.
08 Sept 2026, 00:04 •
America is still fighting the wrong war
(Robert D. Kaplan | UnHerd )
Reading: The United States responded to 9/11 with the wrong wars because Russia and China were the real long-term threats.
11 Sept 2026, 11:31 •
The Long Decline of America
(Paul Krugman )
Reading: America's democratic decay began after 9/11, not with Trump, though Obama-era progress slowed it
11 Sept 2026, 09:55 •
The Unexpected Emergence of the EU as a U.S. Counterterrorism Partner
(Kenneth Propp | Lawfare )
Reading: The EU became a durable U.S. counterterrorism partner because it let Washington modernize and unify Europe-wide legal cooperation
10 Sept 2026, 13:00 •
Opinie rechtsstaat De verkeerde reactie op 9/11 De westerse reactie op de terroristische aanslagen in de VS heeft de rechtsstatelijkheid uitgehold, en moslims ten onrechte in het verdomhoekje gezet.…
(Maurits Berger | NRC )
Reading: Western responses to 9/11 weakened rule of law and normalized discrimination against Muslims
12 Sept 2026, 13:00 •
The invisible border — how 9/11 reshaped global security and identity 25 years later
(Claudia Pizzocri | Daily Maverick Opinionista )
Reading: South Africa should digitalise immigration while preserving human accountability, legal review, and discretion
12 Sept 2026, 00:05 •
The cinema of 9/11
(David Thomson | UnHerd )
Reading: Viewing mass violence through cinematic images dulls outrage and makes Gaza and 9/11 easier to digest
10 Sept 2026, 23:30 •
Se seca el pozo
(Immaculada Monsó Fornell | La Vanguardia )
Reading: The US for-profit healthcare system compounds disaster illness with financial ruin and is a moral failure
14 Sept 2026, 18:13 •
Frammentare e poi punire. L’algoritmo della polemica
(Alice Valeria Oliveri | Domani )
Reading: Political outrage is increasingly manufactured by decontextualized clips that reward engagement and punish complex debate.
17 Sept 2026, 09:04 •
Watykan na nowo o dialogu między religiami. Co zmienia epoka wojen
(Edward Augustyn | Tygodnik Powszechny )
Reading: The Vatican is revising interreligious dialogue to respond to wars, antisemitism, and Islamophobia
14 Sept 2026, 14:02 •
Erinnerung an 9/11 - Selbst Mamdani ist differenzierter als der deutsche ÖRR
(Jan Uphoff | Cicero )
Reading: German public broadcasters misread the Mamdani controversy as antimuslim discrimination, while the exclusion drive and Mamdani's own response were more nuanced
12 Sept 2026, 09:44 •
Get the Middle East out of my politics!
(Noah Smith | Noahpinion )
Reading: The United States should disengage from the Middle East and stop importing Israel/Palestine conflict into domestic politics
10 Sept 2026, 16:22 •
The Lost Journalistic World of 9/11
(Matthew Cooper | Washington Monthly )
Reading: 9/11 showed the value of mainstream journalism, despite its flaws, and that lesson matters against today's fake-news attacks
10 Sept 2026, 21:48 •
Bush Understood Something Trump Doesn’t
(Jonathan Chait | The Atlantic )
Reading: Bush-era pluralism contained anti-Muslim politics, but Trump normalized the claim that Muslims are un-American
10 Sept 2026, 14:19 •
Der King und der Teufel [premium]
(Thomas Vieregge | Die Presse )
Reading: Trump's absence from New York highlights his alienation from the city and his politics of spectacle
11 Sept 2026, 09:55 •
Justice in the 9/11 Case is Long Overdue
(Lawfare )
Reading: The Supreme Court should preserve the 9/11 plea agreements because they are the only realistic path to finality and justice.
11 Sept 2026, 06:35 •
25 Jahre nach 9/11: Terror ächten!
(Thomas Wessel | Ruhrbarone )
Reading: Terrorism has been normalized and morally legitimized again through reactions to Russia, Hamas, and the Gaza agreement
África não é Las Vegas: o “novo” jihadismo
(Manuel Castello Branco | Observador )
07 Sept 2026, 17:37 •
Sind Europäer Trittbrettfahrer, Saudis Unschuldslämmer?
(Erich Gysling | Journal 21 )
Reading: European NATO partners were not free riders, while U.S. leniency toward Saudi Arabia remains the more troubling double standard
12 Sept 2026, 06:05 •
25 lat po WTC: Czy tortury mają sens?
(Aleksandra Herzyk | Krytyka Polityczna )
Reading: Torture is both cruel and ineffective, and neuroscience confirms it should never be justified as a reliable interrogation method.
07 Sept 2026, 05:28 •
25 Years After 9/11, What Are We Failing to Imagine Now?
(Foreign Policy )
Reading: Counterterrorism officials are underestimating how terrorists could combine emerging technologies into new attack methods
31 Aug 2026, 14:25 •
It’s Time to Rein in Trump’s ‘Wars on Terror’
(Brian Finucane | Foreign Policy )
Reading: Trump’s boat strikes are illegal killings, and Congress must curb his abuse of war powers