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IDOMENI, Greece—“If we stay here like this we’re going to start eating each other’s flesh” says Um Sabry, a Syrian woman from Afrin.
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Charlie Savage’s piece on the legal basis for the March 5 U.S. strike against an al Shabaab training camp, which allegedly killed 150 fighters, raises the intriguing question of whether the AUMF has been...
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Editor's Note: This article originally appears on Markaz.
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Earlier this year, when the FBI asked Apple for assistance accessing the contents of an iPhone, Apple asked for the request to issued under seal. This is the standard practice in such cases – indeed, we...
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Today, Secretary of State John Kerry determined that the Islamic State’s actions against Yazidis and other minority groups in Iraq and Syria constitute a genocide.
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If you are planning to travel to Europe this summer .... your trip may be harder than you thought. You have the US Congress to thank.
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The cyber domain covers the entire globe. Given its breadth the challenge in finding universal norms of behavior is great -- it requires cross-cultural and cross-geographic agreement amongst people with...
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I recently appeared on the Brown University Cybersecurity News Podcast to discuss bridging the lawyer and technology divide in the debate between Apple and the FBI. Interested Lawfare readers can listen ...
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Alan Cohn and Jason Weinstein talk to Robin Weisman and Peter Van Valkenburgh from the Coin Center.
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The war in Syria is a ruthless representation of regional changes that have taken place in the Middle East in recent years. At stake is a lot more than the future of Syria. The struggle for Syria is ess...
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Over at Time I have an essay on the Garland nomination. Following on a point Ben made yesterday, I argue:
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David Ignatius of the Washington Post had a column this week purporting to describe the danger of a U.S.-China conflict in the South China Sea. But its real value is its reporting on the views of differe...
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President Obama announced his nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland as the nation’s 113th Supreme Court justice, the New York Times reports.
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Ben Wittes makes a strong case for Merrick Garland’s impressive record and impeccable qualifications, including his national security expertise. I look forward to reading more about him.
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With the benefit of historical hindsight a few years from now, we may look back on March 2016 as a turning point in the debate over encryption, surveillance and civil liberties. The new phase of the deba...
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Here's video of my interview last week with General Michael Hayden on his new book, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror. If you missed the live event, we'll also be podcasting...
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The FBI hacks people. What do their warrants look like?
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The next in our series of Hoover Book Soirees will take place at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place March 28, when Jack interviews Adam Segal about his new book, The Hacked World ...
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Judge Merrick Garland has some experience with what he is about to go through: being stonewalled by senators who profess to have nothing against him. Back in 1995, when he was nominated to the D.C. Circu...
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Today, President Obama announced Merrick Garland as his nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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