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Russia and Turkey Reach Agreement to Establish Demilitarized Zone in Idlib
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On Monday, the Trump administration applied to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of a district court order in litigation related to the transgender servicemember ban. A district court ordered the g...
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North Korea is mimicking Pakistan’s 1998 successful nuclear strategy to develop nuclear capabilities without exacerbating sanctions by quietly developing nuclear weapons and reinforcing trade alliances w...
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Lawfare is growing, not just as a website but also as an organization. And we are hiring a new Director of Operations to help us grow. If you’re someone who loves Lawfare and wants to be involved—central...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, Sept. 17 at 1:30 p.m.: The Center for Strategic and International Studies will host an event called “A Discussion on National Security w...
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In the summer of 2016, a Facebook group called “Secure Borders” began fanning the flames of rumors that a young girl had been raped at knifepoint by Syrian refugees in Twin Falls, Idaho. The group accuse...
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Editor’s Note: Perhaps the biggest counterterrorism challenge facing the Trump administration is whether or not to keep a robust military presence in Syria now that the Islamic State has been forced unde...
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On the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Robert Chesney argued that Washington’s focus has shifted away from the threat of terrorism and the viability of our counterterrorism policy that dominated ou...
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On Friday, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered a plea agreement with the special counsel. To discuss what the news means for Manafort, the Mueller investigation, and President Trump, Ben...
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Well, would you look at that: your hosts are back in town at the same time at last, and they’ve got a fresh episode covering some of the major national security legal developments of the past couple of w...
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The guilty plea former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered Friday marks a milestone in the Department of Justice’s efforts to enforce the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) more vigorously....
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Chinese human rights practices are in the news again. The White House is reportedly weighing sanctions against Chinese officials and companies that are engaged in or facilitating the mass surveillance an...
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According to countless media accounts and President Trump’s own lawyers, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is writing some
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Former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is expected to plead guilty to reduced charges Friday morning as part of a plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office, reports the New York T...
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The special counsel's office has filed a superseding criminal information in the case against Paul Manafort. The document is available here and below. The plea agreement and statement of offense are also...
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Only three weeks ago, the president of the United States lauded Paul Manafort for bravely rejecting any cooperation with Special Counsel Robert Mueller:
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned a series of anti-immigrant protests across eastern German cities on Wednesday, according to the Wall Street Journal. Several of the protests turned violent, with...
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A review of Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die (Crown, 2018).
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Congress this fall will likely face the first executive agreement negotiated under the new Cloud Act. The U.S. and United Kingdom have been negotiating such an agreement since at least 2016.
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John Bolton comes out swinging in his first major speech as national security adviser. Is Russia behind a mysterious string of illnesses at U.S. diplomatic facilities? And Trump administration officials ...
