This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. First, the Pentagon has not generally provided evidence for its claims, other than to cite “intelligence,” and the administration’s pattern of misleading and outright lying makes it hard to give it the benefit of the doubt. On the one hand, officials argue that involving the military, which doesn’t otherwise have a law-enforcement role, in these boat strikes is necessary, because drug shipments pose a direct threat to the United States; the Trump administration calls those killed “unlawful combatants.” On the other hand, the administration has also said that Congress has no authority to intervene under the War Powers Act, because these strikes don’t rise to the level of hostilities—no U.S. troops are in danger.
Author: David A. Graham
Published at: 2025-11-13 22:00:00
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