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Reporter's Notebook: Covering the Hong Kong Protests
I have been left astonished by the protests that rocked Hong Kong last week, especially the organization, kindness and ambition of the youthful protesters asking Beijing for the right to choose who runs ... -
Dhiab Preliminary Injunction Hearing Read-Out: Part One
Below you’ll find a read-out on the first of a three-day, preliminary injunction hearing in the case of Guantanamo detainee and intermittent hunger-striker Abu Wa’El (Jihad) Dhiab. The Syrian national’s... -
History Suggests That Congress Will Only Authorize Force Against the Islamic State If the President Proposes and Pushes For an Authorization (or Screws Up Unilateral Force Badly)
President Obama says he would “welcome congressional support” but does not need authorization from Congress in order to use force against the Islamic State. The President appears to have taken no steps ... -
Supreme Court Denies Cert in Mehanna and Ali Cases
It's not just the same-sex marriage cases. The Supreme Court today also denied petitions for certiorari in a pair of cases we've been following. The first petition was from Tarek Mehanna, a Massachusetts... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
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Is "The Death of Klinghoffer" Anti-Semitic?
A fight has broken out in New York over an opera: Jewish groups are protesting the Metropolitan Opera's production of a work called The Death of Klinghoffer, which dramatizes the 1985 Achille Lauro hijac... -
China's Cyber War on the Protesters
As Benjamin Bissell noted a few days ago, Hong Kong protestors have developed some interesting ways of trying to avoid Chinese repression, including the use of an app, FireChat, that allows them to commu... -
The Week That Will Be
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New Tech and National Security Law -- 3D Printing Redux
Just as Ben seems taken with Drone technology, I've become a fan of 3D Printing (otherwise known as Additive Manufacturing) and its national security implications. And it's becoming a bit of a "thing"... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: The Strategic Value of Threat Deflation
Editor’s Note: As the United States goes to war in Iraq and Syria, President Obama and senior administration officials have repeatedly stressed the threat the Islamic State poses and emphasized the organ... -
The Lawfare Podcast, Episode #94: An Interview with Audrey Kurth Cronin
With the recent decision by the Obama administration to begin launching airstrikes against Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria, questions have arisen about the nature of the terrorist threat that groups... -
Judge Kessler’s Videotape Order and the Costs of Crying Wolf
The First Amendment question in Judge Kessler’s opinion in support of her Order directing the videotapes of Abu Wa'el Dhiab's forced feedings to be unsealed (see Jane’s summary) is whether the public’s p...
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