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As the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act enjoys the lion’s share of attention, another bill aimed at facilitating compensation for American victims of terrorist attacks seems to be sailing below ...
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A little more than 99 years ago, and several months after the United States declared its entry into the Great War against the Central Powers of Europe, Charles Evans Hughes declared in a widely publicize...
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The Islamic State used a small drone booby-trapped with an explosive payload against Kurdish forces last week, the New York Times reports. The group has been using small, commercially-available drones fo...
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Following the joint statement from DHS and ODNI accusing Russia of a recent spate of hacks aimed at influencing the US election, the obvious question is what exactly the US government plans to do about it.
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The U.S. presidential election is not the only election currently going on in the world. This is also the season for the U.N. to select a new Secretary-General to replace the current S.G., Ban Ki-Moon.
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That is the title of a conference Ben and I are participating in next week in D.C. at New America, in conjunction with Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law and the McCain Institu...
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Yesterday Josh Earnest pledged that the United States would “will ensure that our response is proportional” to Russia’s hack of DNC emails, which the United States has concluded was “intended to interfer...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on Thursday, when Jack interviews David Priess about his new book: The President's Book of Secrets: Th...
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Peter Keisler, former head of the Justice Department's Civil Division and Acting Attorney General of the United States, writes in with the following important point about my piece yesterday on Trump's th...
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After a brief period of moderated bombing, Russia has resumed its campaign of intensive airstrikes against rebel positions in eastern Aleppo, Reuters writes.
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A review of Michael S. Neiberg's The Path to War: How the First World War Changed America (Oxford University Press 2016).
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following statement yesterday on the resumption of pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay this week. His statement is also avai...
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International Community Struggles to Respond to Destruction of Aleppo
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The second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton took place at Washington University in St. Louis in a town-hall conversation moderated by Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper. Thoug...
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On Friday afternoon, the United States formally accused the Kremlin of hacking and releasing Democratic Party information to interfere with the U.S.
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I hate to say "I told you so," but gosh, I told you so.
A few months ago, during Trump's ascendancy in the GOP primaries, I wrote a piece about his likely impact on and abuse of the powers of the U.S. D...
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As I noted last month, the oldest outstanding recommendation, unfulfilled since the 9/11 Commission report, is for Congress to fix its jurisdicitional morass and provide effective, unified oversight of t...
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As readers of Lawfare know, a growing number of States believe that use of force in self-defense against a non-state actor on the territory of a third State, without the consent of that third State, may ...
