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The third in our series of our book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on December 2, when Ben interviews Edward Lucas of the Economist about his new book, Cyberphobia:...
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The third in our series of our book soirees at the Hoover Institution's Washington Office will take place on December 2, when Ben interviews Edward Lucas of the Economist about his new book, Cyberphobia:...
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Meet Diesel. He lives next door to me and as his owner tells it, Diesel is always a "nice" dog, but sometimes not a very "good" one. This photo is one of his latest adventures -- he managed to figure o...
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Editor’s Note: Counterterrorism officials often express considerable concern about lone wolf terrorists -- individuals who act without direct ties to an existing group -- because they are difficult to de...
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American and allied forces efforts in the fight against ISIL have recently focused on disrupting the terrorist group’s primary source of revenue: oil production and transportation. The New York Times re...
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In a letter recently released by Representative Mike Pompeo (R-KS), the State Department emphasized that the Iran deal – the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – is not binding under internationa...
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In the latest issue of Dabiq, ISIS’s on-line magazine, the organization sets forth two principal but contradictory goals, which it labels “options.” The first is to spread a totalitarian caliphate throug...
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Typically, this blog does not focus on immigration law. That seems to me appropriate. After all, most immigration questions are, while matters of profound importance to Americans, not really questions ...
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On October 22, 2015, the Department of Transportation and the FAA created a task force to propose a process and rules for small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) registration. sUAS are commonly referred t...
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An Arbitral Tribunal seated at the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague is set to hold oral hearings this week on the merits of the Philippines’ South China Sea claims against China. China contin...
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Our guest this week is Lawfare's new managing editor, Susan Hennessey, in her first podcast appearance after leaving a spooky federal agency. We discuss Turkey's shoot-down of a Russian jet that allegedl...
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Irony alert. The annual conference on European Data Protection, sponsored by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and scheduled for Brussels next week, has been cancelled due to secur...
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Reuters reports
Turkmen forces in Syria shot dead the two pilots of a Russian jet downed by Turkish warplanes near the border with Turkey on Tuesday as they descended with parachutes, a deputy commande...
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Our guest for episode 90 is Charlie Savage, New York Times reporter, talking about Power Wars, his monumental new book on the law and politics of terrorism in the Obama (and Bush) administrations.
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Editor’s Note: Today’s Headlines and Commentary will be in a turkey coma for the remainder of the week. We’ll see you back here on Monday, November 30th. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
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Gubernatorial and presidential candidate fretting about refugees, and House passage last week of a bill aimed at effectively halting resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, has the country ...
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The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Registration Task Force Aviation Rulemaking Committee has issued its final report dated November 21, 2015.
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The five-year targeted killing FOIA litigation by the ACLU and New York Times suffered a setback yesterday when the Second Circuit unsealed an opinion affirming an SDNY ruling from October 2014 allowing ...
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By land, by sea and, occasionally, by air, they come carrying with them all what they have left in this bedlam world, which is often nothing more than the clothes on their back. They come seeking shelter...
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Editor’s note: This post also appears on Just Security.
