<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Righteous Powers
What We’re Following
Syria Strikes: When the U.S. military, aided by Britain and France, struck three government targets in Syria on Friday, President Trump declared the three Western nations had “marshaled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality.” Yet it’s not clear whether the retaliation against this month’s suspected chemical attack will prevent future atrocities—indeed, Eliot A. Cohen argues, it may have sent a worse message than doing nothing. Congress has not formally authorized the use of force against Syria. And Trump himself, David Frum worries, may be too distracted by his own legal troubles to navigate the tangled web of conflicts in Syria.
As federal prosecutors investigate Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal attorney, the president has than he is about the Russia investigation. And the Fox News host Sean Hannity was revealed to have sought legal advice from Cohen, raising about his journalism, as well as his network’s relationships with the president.
