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Document: Justice Department Charges Russian National for Conspiracy to Act as a Foreign Agent
On Monday, the Justice Department unsealed a criminal complaint and supporting affidavit against Mariia Butina, a Russian national, for conspiring to act as a foreign agent in violation of -
Document: July 2018 NATO Summit Communique
On Wednesday, the North Atlantic Council released the following communique on behalf of the heads of state of NATO member-countries. The full document is below. -
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates Have a Disastrous Yemen Strategy
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’s deepening intervention in Yemen is the triumph of hope over experience. Riyadh’s latest campaign in Yemen began in 2015 to topple the then-triumphant Houthi re... -
Setting Expectations for the Helsinki Summit
Editor’s Note: The U.S.-Russia relationship is at the center of the Trump administration. At home, the investigation over Russian interference in the 2016 election continues to enrage the president, whil... -
How the UK Government Resignations Signal the Demise of a ‘Hard’ Brexit
Fresh from the NATO summit, President Donald Trump arrived in the United Kingdom on Thursday to engage with a British government that is in disarray. -
Genworth Approval Offers New Hope for CFIUS Reviews
Since its creation by President Gerald Ford, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has acted as a gatekeeper, working to ensure that foreign acquisitions do not impair U.S. nat... -
SinoTech: China Takes the Trade War to a New Front, and ZTE Stays Alive
Months of trade talks have proven unsuccessful at halting the escalating U.S.-China tech trade conflict, as the U.S. finally implemented its first wave of 25 percent tariffs against $34 billion in high-t... -
Can the UK Rescind Its Withdrawal from the EU?
Events in Washington may overshadow what's happening around the world, but nobody can miss the confusion that attends the British government right now. Two ministers have resigned over Brexit, and the fu... -
NATO and War Powers: Remembering the ‘Great Debate’ of the 1950s
As President Trump goes into this week’s NATO summit complaining about burden-sharing, amid inflamed anxieties at home about presidential powers over foreign relations, it is worth remembering the “Great... -
With New Ceasefire, Assad Regime Looks to Israel-Syria Border
New Ceasefire Reached between Rebels and Regime in Southwest Syria -
‘Special Interrogations,’ Confessions and the Duma Arson Attack
An Israeli district court issued a lengthy decision last month related to the Duma arson attack, the July 31, 2015, fire-bombing of two Palestinian houses by two young Jewish settlers that burned alive a... -
Semi-state Security Actors and Russian Aggression
Editor’s Note: Russia is the most aggressive actor challenging the United States today, but the nature of that aggression differs from the past threat Moscow posed and, indeed, from the dangers posed by ...
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