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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Russia has fired a series of medium range cruise missiles into Syria in what appears to be a coordinated effort to launch a major offensive alongside Syrian ground troops, the New York Times writes. -
Jihadology Podcast: The Khurasan Group: Myth and Reality
Thomas Joscelyn comes on the show to talk about the so-called "Khurasan group." Some of the topics covered include: Why the group came into being and when its members arrived in Syria Who are the key... -
Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner: Some Inconvenient Truths The European Court of Justice Ignores
Today’s decision by the European Court of Justice on safe harbor – Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, ably summarized by Lawfare’s Alex Loomis – ignores some very inconvenient truths ab... -
Russia’s Holy War in Syria
Russia’s intervention in Syria seems to have caught U.S. officials by surprise, although the build-up for it must have been going on for months and is unlikely to have been missed by intelligence agencie... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Washington Post reports that President Obama is considering leaving a standing U.S. force of 5,000 troops in Afghanistan beyond 2016. If implemented, that decision would represent a dramatic departur... -
The Safe Harbor Framework Is Dead
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) invalidated the principal European component of the U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor Framework today in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner. -
Supreme Court Oral Argument in OBB Personenverkehr v. Sachs, a Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Case
The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday in OBB Personenverkehr v. Sachs. The case was brought by Carol Sachs, a California woman seriously injured while boarding a train in Austria. She sued the railw... -
General John F. Campbell Testifies on Afghanistan
General John F. Campbell, Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, testified before for the Senate Armed Services Committee on Military Operations in Afghanistan. You can watch the hearing here. -
On the (Legal) Irrelevance of Iran Sanctions Act Renewal
While the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) appears to have overcome the last major congressional hurdle to implementation, the latest quixotic attempt to tie sanctions relief to Iran’s paymen... -
Civil Libertarians Have Tolerated Perpetual, If Sanitary, War
My colleague Sam Moyn has a terrific essay at Dissent, the main thesis of which is the title of this post. He argues that progressives in the United States have since 9/11 prioritized civil liberties ov... -
Obama's Moral Muse
Nearly seven years into his presidency, we probably shouldn’t be asking who Barack Obama is any more. We should already know him well. Yet at least as pertains to the drone program, we have yet to figur... -
James Lewis on the China Cyber Deal
Given the amount of skepticism that writers on this site—including Jack and I—have expressed towards the Obama administration's cybersecurity posture towards China, I thought it was only appropriate to d...
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