The single most challenging, interesting, and profound comments I have read about President Obama's speech the other day is this post by Bobby. Drawn from his ongoing book project, Bobby poses the questi...

I can do no better than quote Oliver Wendell Holmes from his famous speech to the University of Virginia in 1884: So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer, ...

Some readers may have read about the ongoing proposal that SoftBank purchase a controlling interest in Sprint/Nextel.  As the Washington Post has reported, the Dish network has made a competing offer to ...

Former Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair ABC, speaking about how leaks from the top of the Obama administration set the tone for leaks further down that are subject of DOJ investigations: Ma...

In response to some of my commentary on President Obama's speech, the estimable Alex Remington tweeted at me the following South Park clip---which seems, uh, relevant to a president who wishes to present...

As I noted yesterday, I have an essay at CFR on the President's speech.  I don’t write the headlines or the summaries of my pieces, and I was surprised and dismayed when someone at CFR summarized my piec...

Ryan Goodman and Sarah Knuckey maintain that the new targeting framework announced by the President “raises some troubling questions and leaves important older questions completely unanswered.”  Their li...

This post draws on material from my current book project, the concluding chapter of which considers the legal architecture of counterterrorism in a "postwar" setting...and advances the argument that we a...

Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism---who Ben and I interviewed for a special edition of the Lawfare Podcast---issued the following statement on President Obama's spe...