Earlier today I wrote the following tweets, collected here in one place, in reaction to the DNC hack. 1/ In assessing the DNC hack, remember that USG is no innocent when it comes to infiltrating foreig...

Last Friday, the Department of Defense released an update to the 2015 Law of War Manual. According to Charlie Savage of the New York Times, the changes mainly center on the section related to the treatme...

At Slate I have a discussion about the DNC hack with Isaac Chotiner. A flavor: Is the election aspect of this hack unique?

Here’s an idea for a marriage of man and institution: Take a man who openly advocates criminal activity by American forces, who promises retaliation against his political enemies and against media that c...

As a matter of established legal precedent, the police can compel someone to provide their fingerprint onto a fingerprint reader. Equally well-established is that exigent circumstances—including "the nee...

Over the weekend, there was a crescendo of reports regarding how Russia may be attempting to influence the US presidential election. Jack provided analysis this morning, including links to several of tho...

Potentially unpleasant news for Jim Comey: We need you to intervene in the 2016 election again.

David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth of the NYT summarize the evidence of a Russia-based hack of the DNC emails:

A few weeks ago, we noted the release of a new paper on sextortion by the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center.

Editor's Note: The Middle East and Iraq and Syria in particular have long enjoyed religious diversity, with a range of Muslim and non-Muslim groups, including some of the world’s oldest Christian communi...

Former State Department Deputy Legal Adviser Sue Biniaz, who has served as the Department's top environmental lawyer for more than twenty-five years and is now teaching at Columbia Law School, has writte...

It’s Wednesday morning and we’re back at Guantanamo Bay for more pre-trial hearings in the case of the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks. The previous two days have been closed sessions, but ...

As the fifteen year anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the recent spate of attacks highlights that the world still lacks an established lexicon for describing extremist violence. Governments, media, and aca...

Contrary to much of the apocalyptic speculation when the Iran nuclear agreement was first signed, the world has not, in fact, collapsed in the subsequent year. On Monday—a few days past the deal’s one-ye...