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The Onion, News in Brief, Vol. 15, Issue 14, April 13, 2017:
"There Are No Good Options In Syria," Sighs Man Who Has Devoted 12 Minutes Of Research To Topic
The full story in The Onion, here. (Posted ...
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Trump and Xi Strike a Cordial Tone, but Produce No Substantive Agreements
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CNN reports that the United States has dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on what the Pentagon has claimed are ISIS tunnels, in Nangarhar province in Afghanistan. This marks the first time that the bom...
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Despite the wag-the-dog appearance of President Trump’s about-face on Syria—that is, the possibility that his primary motivation has more to do with his desire to distract attention from his growing dome...
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Former Trump adviser Carter Page is reportedly the target of a FISA warrant. The U.S. launches a cruise missile strike in Syria, and maybe sends a not so subtle signal to China on North Korea. And is the...
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Bloomberg economics commentator Justin Fox is tired of being told that his chances of getting killed in a terrorist attack are (much) lower than his chances of slipping, falling, and dying in a bathtu...
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Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.
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Germany’s latest national cyber security strategy emphasizes “security through encryption” and “security despite encryption” as the main pillars of the government’s crypto policy. If you see a controdict...
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War is in the air: figuratively and literally. Even before the air strikes in Syria and the Russian veto of U.N.
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A White House’s responsibility to explain the legal basis for military actions such as the Syria missile strikes is dangerously undefined. This is not a problem unique to the Trump Administration. Nor do...
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The Washington Post reports that the FBI obtained obtained a FISA warrant to monitor the communications of former Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page as part of its ongoing investigation into possib...
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U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) is the U.S. armed forces command charged with offensive and defensive cyber operations. Since 2010, it has coexisted with NSA as two organizations under one director. It is ...
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The Institute of International Economic Law at Georgetown Law has recently published a book detailing the legal implications of “Brexit,” or the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU.
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Our guest interview is with Nick Weaver, of Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute.
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In answers to written questions preceding his confirmation hearing, now-CIA Director Mike Pompeo caused concern by indicating a willingness to revisit rules governing military and intelligence interrogat...
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The New York Times tells us that the White House accused the Russian government this afternoon of engaging in a cover-up of the chemical weapons attack last week by Syrian forces that prompted American a...
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Trump Administration Sends Mixed Messages about Punitive Strike
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As we have sought to show in Parts I and II of this series, the claims that President Trump made in his joint-session address to Congress and in his revised executive order about the percentage of terror...
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In Part I of this series, we laid out what Justice Department data really show about how many foreign-born vs. domestic-born individuals have been convicted of crimes related to international terrorism i...
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In late February, during his address to a joint session of Congress, President Trump claimed that “according to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of t...
