I was privileged to take part in a good discussion today on KQED Forum on the Apple fight. The discussion included, in addition to me: Laura Sydell, digital culture correspondent, NPR Nate Cardozo, ...

Can you provide material support to a terrorist organization at the same time that you are actively and effectively working against that organization? In a new study published this week by George Washin...

Although the U.S.-ASEAN summit was originally billed as the main story of the week, China stole the show after news broke that the PLA recently deployed anti-aircraft missiles to a contested island in th...

In Al Nashiri v. Obama, a panel of the D.C. Circuit appeared to be leaning toward allowing the federal courts to address when hostilities began with al Qaeda. Al Nashiri is challenging the authority of ...

Editors Note: This piece originally appeared on Markaz.

Imagine that you are in the business of making safes. One day, you devise a novel safe for storing valuables. The safe is quite hard to break into, which is of course one of its selling points. But yo...

In the years since Edward Snowden claimed that U.S. intelligence agencies were tapping into Europeans’ personal data flowing to the United States through undersea cables, an icy distrust has prevailed be...

Note to Apple: As a general matter of strategic communications, following the words “We have no sympathy for terrorists” with a “But” generally means you’ve gone badly off message—even if you wedge a few...

In this latest dust-up between Apple and the FBI, Apple says that the FBI is asking for much more than access to one encrypted IPhone. Tim Cook writes that: Building a version of iOS that bypasses secu...

In my view, at least, Justice Scalia's public statements on national security issues and his one majority(-ish) opinion in a "canonical" national security case (in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd) could lead folks r...