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For more than two years, the United States has been providing support for a Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen that has cost the lives of over 10,000 civilians and plunged much of the country into a humanitarian crisis.

The U.S. government is providing weapons and targeting intelligence, as well as flying refueling missions for the Saudi-led coalition. But U.S. Congress has never voted on whether the United States should be supporting our Saudi allies. It is essentially the president's choice — first Obama's, now Trump's — with little accountability beyond that.

When former Vice President Joe Biden announced his opposition to universal basic income a few weeks ago, it seemed like he was drawing a line in the sand that he believed progressives shouldn't cross.

Austin Frerick couldn't believe the numbers. Last year, while working as an economist at the Office of Tax Analysis in the Obama Treasury Department, Frerick co-wrote a paper on "excess returns," which he describes as "a fancy way of saying monopoly profits." And the data was leaping off the charts. "We were seeing returns in places we shouldn't," said Frerick, 27. "It's baby formula, strawberries, crackers. The barriers to entry of making crackers should be next to nothing."

Chinese war hero and US ally Sun Li-jen, known as "the ever-victorious general" for his feats fighting the Japanese in Burma in World War II, has been recognized for the first time on the floor of the US Congress.

Congressman Ro Khanna, representing California's 17th District, honored General Sun on Thursday. He encouraged Congress to remember Sun's contributions and legacy and their importance to people of Chinese and Chinese-American ancestry.

Four lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill that would halt U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen on grounds that Congress has never approved the American role in the war.

Two House Republicans and two Democrats submitted the bill on Wednesday evening, but other lawmakers have already conveyed their support for the measure, congressional aides told Foreign Policy.