Shane Harris at Washingtonian has this review of ex-Navy SEAL Matt Bissonette's book on the Osama bin Laden raid. It begins: “Let me be clear, I do not consider this to be my story,” writes retired N...

I'm happy to report that I've recently completed drafting an article that has been much on my mind for the past few years.  Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture o...

What follows is the list of speeches by senior officials of the Obama administration, from the President on down and particularly senior lawyers of the national security agencies, addressing national sec...

Over at SCOTUSblog, there's a terrific symposium underway to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Least Dangerous Branch, Alex Bickel's seminal work on the Supreme Court and judicial review.

In an earlier post, here, I described an article I was working on, with my colleague Sam Issacharoff, on detention, targeted killings, and the fundamental transformation we see taking place in the practi...

Guess what? They're still illegal outside of Afghanistan: Targeted killing with drones in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan have generally violated the right to life because the United States is rarely part o...

My old friend Naunihal Singh, a political science professor at Notre Dame University, has this very moving piece on The New Yorker's web page on the killings at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin: T...

The New York Times is running a "Room For Debate" exchange on the question of whether the threat from domestic hate groups is being overlooked.