Today's Headlines and Commentary

Abdulrahman Ahmad Alsheikh, an American citizen imprisoned by the military for more than 13 months without trial on suspicions of being a member of Islamic State, was released on Monday in Bahrain, reports the New York Times.

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s populist, far-right presidential candidate, has won the election. His ascendance to the presidency marks the country’s most radical political change since it became a democracy 30 years ago, says the Times.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Monday that she will not seek re-election, and intends to give up leadership of the Christian Democratic Union, says the Times. Chancellor Merkel intends to finish her term, which ends in 2021.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said that talks with 28 European allies on the U.S.’s intention to withdraw from the Cold War-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty did not yield any alternatives to withdrawal, reports the Washington Post.

A mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday left 11 people dead. The alleged assailant, Robert D. Bowers, has been charged with 29 criminal counts including criminal homicide, the obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs, ethnic intimidation and using a firearm to commit murder, reports the Times.

The U.S. military intends to send 5,000 troops to the Texas, Arizona and California in anticipation of a caravan of asylum-seekers and migrants, says the Wall Street Journal; a Customs and Border Protection official said that the troops are not intended to enforce immigration law.

ICYMI: Last Weekend on Lawfare

Jen Patja Howell posted a new episode of The Lawfare Podcast, a conversation between Benjamin Wittes and Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the University of Texas Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law.

Raj M. Desai assessed the rise of a global middle class, and the challenges it brings to global democracy.

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