A review of Erica L. Gaston's “Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria” (Columbia University Press, 2024).

FTO designations, policy changes, and increased resources to “totally eliminate” cartels may be effective, but with collateral consequences.

Without a clear statement from Congress signaling that this broad authority extends to LPRs, courts should hold that LPRs are beyond the provision’s scope.

Green card holders like Columbia University’s Mahmoud Khalil are entitled to due process before having their permanent residency taken away.

A review of Steve Benen, “Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans’ War on the Recent Past” (Harper Collins, 2024) and Jason Stanley, “Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to ...

A review of Amin Saikal, “How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan” (Yale University Press, 2024).

As details about migrant detention at Guantanamo Bay trickle in, the Defense Department’s role in immigration enforcement appears to be at an inflection point.

How the “individual most responsible for what occurred" that day is trying to erase history.

A dispatch from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C Circuit on the Guantanamo plea agreements.

The D.C. Circuit will decide if Secretary Austin gave ex ante guidance on the plea and if performance of the deal had already begun.

The Trump administration must offer bolder reforms if it wants to prevent the new Syria from descending into chaos.