In an earlier post, I explained how polling data on the Russia investigation underscores the degree to which partisanship taints Americans’ assessment of security politics. When asked about matters relat...

Sens. Mark Warner, Cory Gardner, Ron Wyden and Steve Daines have proposed a bill, the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017, that is a good first step in securing the Internet of Thing...

The White House has provided a letter to Sen. Bob Corker detailing the Trump administration's legal analysis of the basis for airstrikes conducted in Syria in May and June 2017. The letter is available i...

After a long and winding road, both houses of Congress have finally passed a bill which—if signed into law—would essentially require President Trump to impose significant new sanctions, including against...

Should the leading online tech companies be regulated as public utilities? Maybe so, according to White House advisor Steve Bannon. His basic argument, according to The Intercept, “is that Facebook and ...

On July 5, AlphaBay, an online marketplace specializing in the sale of illegal goods and services, went offline. Users and vendors wondered what had happened.

Below is an excerpt from a piece that appeared on our Foreign Policy feed earlier today. Last week, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to announce his intended reinstatement of a ban on openly tran...

Last week, Jack Goldsmith and I had an exchange over whether the proper response to the President Trump's abuse of law enforcement was for Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod R...

Relative Calm Returns to Temple Mount

The House Judiciary Committee has a unique role to play in times of great national crisis in the functioning of the presidency. As the congressional body with jurisdiction over the initial stages of the ...

Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Brigadier General Mark Martins released the following statement on Sunday on the occasion of military commissions proceedings this week in the case of Abd al Rahim H...

PDF version A review of Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment by Trygve Throntveit (University of Chicago Press, 2017). ***

PDF version Last week the Hoover Institution published my paper —entitled "Appropriate Norms Of State Behavior In Cyberspace: Governance In China And Opportunities For US Businesses"—as part of its Aegi...

This Wednesday at 9:30 a.m., a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit (Rogers, Tatel and Griffith, JJ.) will hold a rare August argument session to hear the latest petition for a writ of mandamus from the...

As Congress begins to respond more forcefully to Donald Trump’s excesses, a new proposal is taking shape: legislation to limit the president’s capacity to fire the special counsel. Lindsay Graham appears...