Recent U.S. actions in Venezuela underscore the president’s broad authority to use military force. But threats of a “second wave” may still run up against its limits.

Judge Paula Xinis’s opinion last month in the Abrego Garcia case is worth a deeper read.

A dispatch from the Jan. 5 hearing in the Southern District of New York.

The court’s ruling about who can oversee an obstruction of justice investigation into military officials has broad rule-of-law implications.

China’s military possesses some dangerous weapons, but its ability to outfight the U.S. military is seriously overstated.

Efforts to govern commercial spyware will continue yielding marginal progress unless three key problems are addressed.

Jim Jordan v. Jack Smith

A review of Jacob Kushner, “Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants,” (Hachette, 2024).

One year of The Situation.