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Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Treasury Department added eight North Korean banks and 26 individuals to the Office of Foreign Asset Control’s sanctions lists, blacklisting them from any dealings with the United States, the New Yor... -
A President’s Words Matter: Deception of the Public and the Impeachable Offense
In the past week, the president restated his view that assertions of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election are a “hoax.” He has said this before. -
Cold-Pizza Demagoguery: On the President’s Latest Travel Ban
Say this for President Trump: If he lacks the sense or decency to refrain from obsessively tweeting about kneeling football players when millions of Americans are facing devastation in Puerto Rico, he su... -
Government Files Response Brief in Carpenter v. US
Yesterday, the government filed a response brief in Carpenter v. United States, arguing that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision holding that the government's acquisition of cell phone records di... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The White House denied that the U.S. has declared war on North Korea. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the accusation from North Korea’s foreign minister that a tweet from President Trump wa... -
Does Trump's North Korea Travel Ban Actually Ban Any North Koreans?
The White House’s newest proclamation amending the administration’s travel ban now includes North Korea. The proclamation bans entry of persons from specific countries that would be “detrimental to the ... -
Backlash to Kurdish Independence Referendum Begins, Trump Has Made Decision on Iran Deal, Russian and U.S.-backed Forces Converge in Syria
Iraqi Kurds Vote on Secession, Backlash Begins -
A Lost Opportunity to Learn Lessons from the Cultural Cold War
PDF VERSION A review of Joel Whitney's book, Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers (OR Books, 2017). *** -
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Special Counsel Protection
Today at 10:00 am, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled 'Special Counsels and the Separation of Powers' to consider two bills that are designed to protect special counsels from wro... -
The Cyberlaw Podcast: Robots and Cyber and Space, Oh My! The Pantsing of International Humanitarian Law
In a delightfully iconoclastic new book, Jeremy Rabkin and John Yoo take the air out of 75 years of inflated claims about the law of war. They do it, not for its own sake, though God knows that would be ... -
What’s Next for the Bundestag, Merkel and Germany’s Security Policies?
The results of the German federal election this weekend were at once unsurprising and worrisome. -
Reality Sets in for Federal Courts: The Travel Ban Was a ‘Temporary Pause’
After eight months, thousands of pages of briefing and three Supreme Court orders, the Trump administration has reiterated what had been its position all along: that a pause on the entry of immigrants fr...
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