Last summer, I pointed out that U.S. law already authorizes the President to impose targeted economic sanctions to deter or punish Chinese aggression in the South China Sea. That none were imposed, howev...

The debate over the unprecedented conflicts of interest created by President-elect Donald Trump’s financial empire is at an impasse, perhaps in part because we have adopted a narrow understanding of what...

The other day President-Elect Trump released a video summarizing his plans for the first 100 days in office. Little noticed or remarked upon was his commitment (see 1:45 in the video) to ask the Departm...

Back in 2005, Princeton University Press published a slim, slickly-packaged book with a provocative title by a philosophy professor named Harry Frankfurt.

Since Donald Trump’s election as president, I have had more than my share of inquiries from current and aspiring Justice Department attorneys about the ethics of service under the new President-elect. Th...

Since Donald Trump’s election two weeks ago, we have witnessed—on the pages of Lawfare, and throughout mainstream and social media—what my colleague Adrian Vermeule once described as “libertarian panic.”...

During the course of his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump made a series of deeply concerning statements about how he would use the power of his presidency to officially discriminate against Muslims.

On Day One of his presidency, Donald Trump has promised to rev up the deportation machinery. Up first, he says, are the “probably two million, it could be even three million,” criminal immigrants in the ...

President-elect Donald Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone last Monday, agreeing to improve the “unsatisfactory” relations between the two nuclear powers. “The overall tone of the c...

Masha Gessen is a pro-democracy activist and journalist born in Moscow who for years risked her freedom and more to stand up to Vladimir Putin’s regime. She now lives in New York. Shortly after last we...

President-elect Donald Trump harshly criticized President Obama’s record on Syria: Obama, he claimed, allowed the Middle East to fall into chaos and let the Islamic State and other terrorist groups flour...