Criminal Justice & Rule of Law

Microsoft’s dispute with Nightmare Eclipse reveals what’s at stake when companies conflate disclosure with criminality.

Trump v. Slaughter’s silence on the civil service raises concerns of executive aggrandizement.

A review of W. Fitzhugh Brundage, “A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War” (Norton, 2026).

And why the answer is less important than you might think.

Indicting Raul Castro does not legally justify invading Cuba, contrary to the Justice Department’s flawed theory for the Venezuela invasion.

Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.

Prediction markets, fragmented regulation, and national security risk

The line between cyber offense and defense is disappearing—but the law still treats them very differently. That gap is getting costly.