The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared: "America's public enemy number one…is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this ...

Among the most important shifts in Trump 2.0 is a multipronged effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to equate its war on drugs with the war on terror.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The Trump administration’s undeclared war on what it calls “narco-terrorists” in ...

John Yoo helped developed the legal framework for the post-9/11 wars in the George W. Bush Justice Department. He argues Trump trying to invoke war powers too extraordinary to be used against crime.

Rescheduling marijuana might seem an unlikely move for a Republican president – but it perfectly coheres with his ‘America First’ worldview, says academic Kojo Koram ...

If everything you thought you knew about the War on Terror were nothing more than a mirage—an extravagant shadow-play staged ...

The Trump administration has opted to use our military to stop the flow of drugs coming into the United States from Latin America. As with previous administrations, this is a myopic view of the ...

New details of deliberations show how aides with overlapping agendas drove the United States toward a militarized ...

We're going to talk about another area where President Trump's use of the military is facing big legal questions. This is strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats. We got more details late last week ...