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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Not two days after launching an offensive to retake the city from ISIS, Kurdish forces backed by U.S. airpower and Yazidi fighters entered the town of Sinjar today and announced its liberation from Islam... -
Rational Security: The "Incubus of Plague" Edition
This week on the show, we go all CNN on you and talk plane crashes: Will we ever know how a Russian airliner fell from the sky in Egypt? Does it matter or does it only matter what Vladimir Putin thinks b... -
Water Wars: Calling for Calm amid South China Sea Storm, Xi Unleashes Diplomatic Offensive
Xi Jinping and Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi (Photo: Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images) -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Backed by U.S.-coalition air power and thousands of Yazidi fighters, Kurdish forces have launched an offensive to retake Sinjar from the Islamic State. The New York Times writes that “as many as 7,500 Ku... -
Indonesia Hints at South China Sea Litigation
Could we be witnessing a legal cascade in the South China Sea? Most states with claims have thus far eschewed formal legal challenges to China, but that could be changing. In the wake of the Philippines'... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #88: An Interview with Adam Kozy and Johannes Gilger
Where the hell are the FTC, Silicon Valley, and CDT when human rights and privacy are on the line? If the United States announced that it had been installing malware on 2% of all the laptops that crosse... -
Congressional Oversight of US Foreign Relations and National Security?
Executive power is on the rise, a familiar argument runs, and necessarily at the expense of Congressional authority. -
Jihadology Podcast: Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh: Then & Now
C. Christine Fair comes on the show to talk about Islamism in Bangladesh. Some of the topics covered include: History of Islamism in Bangladesh and its intersection with mainstream politics The role ... -
"Chronic and Severe Mental and Physical Conditions" Aside, Shaker Aamer Looks Pretty Good
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How the ICC Could Alter the Security Council's Palestine Role
New Zealand, an elected member of the UN Security Council, attempted recently to prod the Council into action in the Middle East. As violence in East Jerusalem and the West Bank has spiked, the Council h... -
Klayman Update: DC Circuit Stays Judge Leon's Ruling
Here's a brief update on my piece yesterday on the Klayman litigation. The government yesterday, as promised, moved in the D.C. Circuit for a stay of Judge Leon's ruling. -
Zivotofsky II as Precedent in the Executive Branch
The November issue of the Harvard Law Review is out, with the Foreword by David Strauss, essays by Abbe Gluck on King v. Burwell and Kenji Yoshino on Obergefell v.
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