What Does It Mean To 'Run' Venezuela?
Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Matt Welch, and Robby Soave | 1.5.2026 8:17 PM
This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by Reason senior editor Robby Soave to dig into the U.S. capture of Venezuela's sitting president, Nicolás Maduro, and what it means for the White House to claim it can "run" another country without congressional authorization. They debate what temporary American control is supposed to mean in practice, whether the capture of Maduro was legal, how war powers and congressional authorization fit into it all, and why White House officials keep........
