In her news roundup for last Friday, Ritika briefly mentioned that a drone strike had killed four al-Shabab militants in Somalia.  The New York Times had also cursorily mentioned the strike in this shor...

Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post reports that the White House thwarted NSA attempts to seek legislation that “would have required hundreds of companies that provide such critical services as electr...

Here is your moment of Not-Zen for the day (with thanks to my student Daniel).  (With apologies to the senior editors of Lawfare for momentarily lowering the tone.)

The New York Times is reporting that a group of flu and public health experts at a WHO-convened meeting in Geneva have decided that the full research details will be released regarding the highly contagi...

I hope it is not snarkish to hope that by the time I hit "publish" on this post, the director of the National Constitution Center's "Peter Jennings Project," Todd Brewster, will have corrected his articl...

In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, seventy percent of respondents (including a majority of self-identified liberal Democrats) said they approve of keeping open the Guantanamo Bay detention facili...

Well, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 is now available for Senate consideration.  A link to the text of the bill can be found here for download.  Hearings will be held this Thursday.  Weighing in at 205 pa...

One of the dangers of blogging about current events is that changing events tend to overtake what you have written.  Earlier this week, I wrote about the two House bills currently moving through that cha...

Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller responds to my earlier post regarding the BIJ report on drone strikes in Pakistan, and in doing so draws attention to a very interesting question.  [Update: see Dap...