The U.S. has invited a conundrum for the Department of Justice upon itself.

Congress has the tools, but needs the will, to make pardons for battlefield misconduct harder for presidents to grant.

Liberal democracies can use financial intelligence to counter foreign interference.

The dictator’s demise will be cause for celebration, though it will open up new dangers for the region and for U.S. interests there.

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I read Kash Patel’s three books for small children. They’re really weird.

The Russia-Ukraine war is spurring battlefield innovations as both sides leverage AI, gradually turning the war into a battle of algorithms.

The ICC can exercise jurisdiction over Israeli and Russian nationals on the same basis that the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals exercised jurisdiction over German and Japanese nationals.

The Supreme Court’s presidential immunity decision reveals fatal limitations in the current majority’s approach to separation of powers conflicts.

President Biden's pardon of his son sheds light on a legal system that depends on the good judgment of those in power—just as the people about to come into power have given no indication that they posses...

Six reasons why the Hunter Biden pardon betrayed important values for which his father had purported to stand.