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Today's Headlines and Commentary
President-elect Donald Trump will not push for a further investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server, a matter which he does not clearly have the authority to pursue and which the FBI previou... -
Annals of the Trump Administration #4: The Statute Needed for Gen. Mattis to be SecDef
Over at War on the Rocks, I have a post explaining that a new statute will be needed in order for General Mattis to serve as Secretary of Defense. It's been done once before, with George Marshall during... -
Annals of the Trump Administration #3: Refusing to Add Waterboarding to the Field Manual?
In a prior post I discussed the Trump administration's apparent interest in reviving waterboarding as an interrogation method, noted that a federal statute forbids resort to any interrogation method not ... -
Muslim Registry or NSEERS Reboot Would Be Unconstitutional
During the course of his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump made a series of deeply concerning statements about how he would use the power of his presidency to officially discriminate against Muslims. -
The Inner Life of a Dictatorship
PDF version A review of Oleg Khlevniuk's Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Yale University Press, reprint edition, 2016). *** -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Steven Weber and Betsy Cooper
In this week’s episode, we guess at the near-term future with Betsy Cooper and Steve Weber of UC Berkeley’s Center for Long Term Cybersecurity. In all of their scenarios, the future is awash in personal ... -
Middle East Ticker: Assad Regime Destroys Last Hospitals in Aleppo, Tunisia Confronts Its Past, and Another Truce in Yemen Fails
Assad Regime Advances in Aleppo, Destroys Remaining Hospitals -
Donald Trump and the Non-Existent Two Million Criminal Immigrants
On Day One of his presidency, Donald Trump has promised to rev up the deportation machinery. Up first, he says, are the “probably two million, it could be even three million,” criminal immigrants in the ... -
Ghosts in the Machine: Targeting Homegrown Violent Extremists with Artificial Intelligence-enabled Investigations
In June, a gunman slaughtered 49 people in Orlando, Florida, pledging allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the process. The following month, a supporter of the N... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The presidential transition continues, and it appears not to be proceeding smoothly. -
Dispute Resolution Over Alleged Russian Breaches of the INF Treaty
President-elect Donald Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone last Monday, agreeing to improve the “unsatisfactory” relations between the two nuclear powers. “The overall tone of the c... -
Trump’s Internet and How to Stop It
Masha Gessen is a pro-democracy activist and journalist born in Moscow who for years risked her freedom and more to stand up to Vladimir Putin’s regime. She now lives in New York. Shortly after last we...
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