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On Dec. 4, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo brought an end to weeks of ambiguity by finally laying out the administration’s plans for the future of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty—or at ...
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This piece is cross-posted at Just Security.
President Trump has submitted only one treaty to the Senate so far in his presidency. That is a historic low, and it is the latest sign that the Article II ...
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There have been big moves in the Russia investigation. We'll put this week’s pieces together. U.S. tensions with China escalate following the arrest of a senior Chinese telecom executive. And the Saudi c...
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The detention of a top executive from Chinese technology giant Huawei shocked financial markets around the world last week as investors worried that the arrest would derail U.S.-China trade talks. But th...
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A gunman killed three people and wounded at least 13 others at a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France on Tuesday, reports the Washington Post. Police have said that the attacker, who is still at large,...
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Interested in the views of Once and Future Attorney General Bill Barr on questions like the power of the president to initiate a war, remove officials, and other hot separation of powers topics? We read...
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The last weeks of 2018 have precipitated significant developments in the so-called trade wars between the United States and its trading partners. Yet the recent agreements made and signed did little to a...
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In the spring of 2001, Bill Barr, the former attorney general under George H.W. Bush who has now been tapped to resume that role under Donald Trump, sat for an oral history interview sponsored by the Uni...
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Michael Flynn has filed his sentencing memo in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The memo is available here and below. The special counsel's sentencing memo is available here.
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Last week, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Gregory Johnsen, a former member of the U.N. Security Council Panel of Experts on Yemen and the author of the book "The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America’...
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In a court filing submitted last week to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Southern District of New York, federal prosecutors alleged personal involvement by the president of the United States in the com...
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Yemen Peace Talks Reach Deal for Prisoner Exchange
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In an on-camera Oval Office meeting with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, President Trump declared that he would be “proud” to shut down the government if he i...
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In the News Roundup, Nick Weaver and I offer very different assessments of Australia’s controversial encryption bill.
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Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 3:00 p.m.: The American Enterprise Institute will host a discussion on the state of freedom of speech in South Korea, and the implications of new media regulations on the country. Nic...
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Or at least it’s the most wonderful time of the week, for we’ve just posted the latest episode of National Security Law Podcast! Tune in for:
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Introduction
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This is the fourth post in a series. Read the first three parts here, here and here.
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President Donald Trump named Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, says CNN. Trump also announced on Saturday that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will vacate hi...
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As opposition grows in the British Parliament to the nearly 600-page agreement negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May’s government to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union, it’s increasin...
