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Understanding the U.S. Strike on Venezuela

January 6, 2026

Heather Cox Richardson explains how Trump’s invasion violates the Constitution and threatens the international order established after World War 2.

Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian and author of the New York Times bestseller, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. She also runs the Substack newsletter, Letters from an American.

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