Dispatches
Longer pieces on the resolution, the procedure, and the record. Updated as the story moves.
What Massie actually filed: a reader's guide to all 34 pages
The news coverage said 'eight articles over the Iran war.' That undersells it. Here is what is in the resolution, article by article, and what surprised us.
The tabling vote is the only vote. Here's why, and why it still counts.
Speaker Johnson says the resolution will be 'immediately tabled' on November 9. What a motion to table is, why it's the vote to watch, and what Rule IX lets one member do.
Belknap, Mayorkas, Hegseth: what the two cabinet impeachments teach
A cabinet secretary has been impeached twice in American history. The first was a Secretary of War. Both cases say something about what happens next.
The May 1 clock: how the War Powers deadline works and what happened after it ran out
The administration started the 60-day War Powers clock itself on March 2. The resolution's tightest argument is what happened on days 61, 91 and beyond.