Hearings continued on Wednesday in the Al-Nashiri case. After some preliminary matters, the commission turns immediately to the matter at hand: the testimony of Stephen D. Gill, on redirect. On Monday th...

The End of Sisi’s Authoritarian Honeymoon

PDF version A review of Mark Bradley's The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2016). ***

[This piece has been updated where noted.]

Last Friday, Netflix launched the latest season of Black Mirror, a dystopian anthology series specializing in bleak, twisty set pieces about the capacity of technology to enable new and inventive forms o...

I recently wrote an essay reflecting on the reality that nearly anyone with a life online is today subject to being hacked and having anything private become public. If the media is understandably going...

On July 28, 2016, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra—the official al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria—announced that the group was changing its name to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (JFS, which transla...

If you believe the FiveThirtyEight electoral forecast, Donald Trump has only between a 14- and 16-percent chance of becoming president.

I don't normally spend time thinking about, much less responding to, television personalities. But the other day, Fox News's Sean Hannity tweeted a public endorsement of Wikileaks and Julian Assange:

Editor's Note: We've seen this move before. Once again, the Islamic State is on the run, and once again, we are hoping that this is the beginning of the end. Not so fast, contend my Brookings colleague W...