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Former Attorney General Bill Barr testified before the Senate judiciary committee in his confirmation hearings to serve as President Trump's attorney general on Tuesday and Wednesday. Matthew Kahn shared...
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How do international relations experts evaluate President Trump’s efforts to reshape the U.S.-led international order and the multilateral institutions that help govern it? IR scholars have long argued t...
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Last week, Jack Goldsmith got on the phone with Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalist Greg Miller to discuss Miller’s new book, “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American D...
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Editor’s Note: President Trump's justification of his foreign policy often draws on bizarre theories and bad history. One of the worst recent instances was his claim that the Soviet Union invaded Afghani...
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On Friday evening, the New York Times reported that in the days after President Trump fired then-FBI Director James Comey, federal law enforcement officials become so concerned with the president’s condu...
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This Lawfare post summarizes a longer essay we are publishing today with the Hoover Working Group on National Security, Technology and Law. Our essay addresses whether governments ever have a justified b...
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Few people today have ever heard of the Ludlow Amendment—a radical proposal that would have required a popular referendum before Congress could declare war and which lost a critical House vote on this da...
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Editor’s Note: The Trump administration has made North Korea one of its strategic priorities, but the Pyongyang regime is inscrutable, making it difficult to determine the best approach. Brookings senior...
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Lawfare is now accepting resumes from part-time freelance copy editors and proofreaders to contribute to our high-impact, nonpartisan website examining issues at the intersection of national security and...
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Editor’s Note: The United States is considering deploying permanent forces to Poland to signal the U.S. security commitment to that country. Such a move would be a massive strategic shift and one that ra...
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The recent discovery of the memorandum that William Barr, the president’s nominee for attorney general, sent the Justice Department in June criticizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into...
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On Thursday, Dec. 20, in a concise letter that outlined the differences between his worldview and the president’s, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced his resignation, effective Feb. 28, 2019. Quinta ...
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Editor’s Note: As the United States withdraws both from the Middle East and from its traditional global leadership role under President Trump, rising powers like China and regional players like Saudi Ara...
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I recently posted a new draft article, “Implementing Carpenter,” on the Supreme Court's blockbuster June 2018 decision in Carpenter v. United States.
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Editor’s Note: Minor powers, rebel groups, and other organizations often act as proxies for more powerful states or groups, which use them to fight (or commit) terrorism, counter rival regimes, or otherw...
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Starting with Yemen, Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast featuring a discussion on the origins and potential outcomes of the war in Yemen with Gregory Johnsen, Daniel Byman and Benj...
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A review of James Loeffler, “Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” (Yale UP, 2018)
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With whom have we not spent heart-warming hours there, looking out...
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Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 3:00 p.m.: The American Enterprise Institute will host a discussion on the state of freedom of speech in South Korea, and the implications of new media regulations on the country. Nic...