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A gaffe is when a politician recklessly tells the truth, Michael Kinsley once said.
Sir Kim Darroch is not a politician. He is a diplomat. And the truth he spoke was not a gaffe. It was a leak. But it f...
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Representatives of the Afghan government and Taliban agreed on a nonbinding roadmap for Afghanistan’s political future, following meetings in the Qatari capital of Doha, the New York Times reports. The a...
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President Trump has declared that he will fight “all the subpoenas” coming from Congress and has claimed “absolute immunity” for White House advisors. In doing so, he has brought the issue of congression...
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On July 17, Robert Mueller will testify publicly before Congress for the first time since June 2013, when he appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee in his role as FBI director. Democratic memb...
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This week I interview Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville law school, about his new book, “The Social Media Upheaval.” In a crisp 64 pages, Glenn analogizes social...
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On July 17, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller will testify before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee.
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The House Judiciary Committee has released a document of responses by Ann Donaldson, former deputy to former White House Counsel Don McGahn, to queries by the committee concerning the Mueller report. Don...
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The National Security Agency’s Office of the Inspector General released an unclassified version of its mandatory semi-annual report to Congress covering Oct. 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019. The full document ...
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FBI agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have mined state driver’s license databases using facial recognition technology, without drivers’ knowledge or consent, writes the Washington ...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Tuesday, July 9, 2019, 10:00 a.m.: The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Protecting Innocence in a Digital World.” The com...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
Following a repeat mayoral election in Istanbul on June 23, Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is not quite so strong anymore. If...
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Here’s a puzzle: Imagine that you are a member of Congress who, under rules seemingly designed to preclude effective questioning, had exactly five minutes to interview Robert Mueller on national televisi...
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Editor’s Note: In recent years, so-called homegrown violent extremists (HVEs) have eclipsed returned foreign fighters and other sources of terrorism. National Defense University’s Kim Cragin assesses the...
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Benjamin Wittes sat down with Dan Byman, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Middle East Studies and Lawfare's foreign policy editor, to discuss his new book, "Road Warriors: Foreign ...
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Evelyn Douek analyzed Facebook’s progress report on its ongoing civil rights audit.
Joe Whittaker explained that content moderation policies are driving terrorists onto encrypted apps, making the commun...
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The British navy seized a tanker off the coast of Gibraltar suspected of carrying Iranian oil to a refinery in Syria in violation of EU sanctions, the BBC reports. The Spanish government plans to lodge a...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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“[T]he work speaks for itself,” said Special Counsel Robert Mueller of his office’s report on election interference and potential obstruction of justice. On June 24, the organization Law Works agreed, pr...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declined to stay of a lower court's preliminary injunction of President Trump's reallocation of funds for the construction of a border wall. The decision i...
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Xi and Trump Agree to Restart Trade Talks, With Slight Reprieve for Huawei in Sight
