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The trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort began Tuesday in the Eastern District of Virginia, reports Politico. Judge T.S. Ellis III ushered the attorneys through a brisk jury selection and...
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Note: The author is a member of Abu Zubaydah’s legal team. Joseph Margulies, Mark Denbeaux and Helen Duffy, who also represent Abu Zubaydah, have contributed to this article.
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The Justice Department unsealed three federal indictments on Wednesday charging Ukranian nationals Dmytro Fedorov, Fedir Hladyr, and Andrii Kopakov with crimes related to their membership in the internat...
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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces captured an American-Saudi dual citizen last September suspected to be a member of the Islamic State. Because of his citizenship, he was quickly transferred to De...
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At China’s Central Foreign Relations Work Conference—an infrequently-held high level strategy session on the nation’s foreign policy—convened on June 23, 2018, Chinese leaders issued an array of foreign ...
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For many who follow developments in the South China Sea, the July 2016 tribunal ruling in the Philippines’ case against China has become the equivalent of the birth of Jesus in the Gregorian calendar: De...
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The trial of Paul Manafort, the first criminal trial to stem from the special counsel’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, opened Tuesday in the Eastern District of Virginia. L...
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For years, Shane Harris of the Washington Post has been fascinated with the search for extraterrestrial life in the universe. But that search raises a profound question: Should we try to communicate with...
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It isn’t every day that the Department of Justice acknowledges formally that the president of the United States lied in a speech to Congress. But that’s how I read a letter I received a few days ago from...
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“Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” President Trump proclaimed in March. But amid ongoing trade tensions with China, it is not at all obvious what qualifies as a “win” in the president’s book.
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As some readers know, I wrote a law school casebook on computer crime law. The first edition came out in 2006, and it has been updated over time: The fourth edition came out in January 2018. If you’re in...
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U.S. Resumes Military Aid to Egypt Despite Dismal Human Rights Record
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The trial of Paul Manafort is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the Eastern District of Virginia, five months after Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted the former chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential ...
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Our guest for the interview is Noah Phillips, recently appointed FTC Commissioner and former colleague of mine at Steptoe. Noah fields questions about the European Union, privacy, and LabMD, about whethe...
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Defense News recently published a story describing a July report from the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) on “Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace.” The article presents the ...
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Italy’s new populist government is threatening to shoot down a free trade deal between Canada and the European Union, reports the Wall Street Journal. The agreement, called the Comprehensive Economic and...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
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Former acting solicitor general Walter Dellinger tweeted a question last week:
Who decided that the right word for the Russian military/intelligence
attack on our democratic election was "meddling"? ...
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Editor’s Note: Critics of Trump's foreign policy, including many of my Brookings colleagues, regularly espouse the virtues of the so-called liberal order and decry Trump's repeated attacks on it. The Uni...
