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Europe Continues to Brush Off the U.S. Maximum Pressure Campaign Against Iran
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Time to Amend the Presidential Pardon Power
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The U.S. Defense Space Strategy Works on Paper, but Will it be Implemented?
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The U.S. Defense Space Strategy works on paper, but will it be implemented?
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The Federal Government’s Aggressive Prosecution of Protestors
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White Supremacist Prosecutions Roundup
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The Roger Stone Commutation Is Even More Corrupt Than It Seems
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Trump’s Aberrant Pardons and Commutations
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The Strategic Logic of Russia’s Bounty Policy
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The Supreme Court Rules in the Trump Subpoena Cases
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The Durham Investigation: What We Know and What It Means
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Will the Afghan Peace Process Be Pakistan’s Road to Redemption?
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Asylum Update: Ninth Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Third Country Rule
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The Days After: A Retrospective on Chinese and Indian Media Coverage of the June 16 Border Conflict
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The Reviews Be Damned: ‘Space Force’ Is Awesome
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The Japanese Automobile Industry Is Taking Next Steps for Cybersecurity Collaboration
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The Imaginary Unitary Executive
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Israel Reauthorizes Shin Bet’s Coronavirus Location Tracking
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China Enacts Hong Kong Security Law; India Bans Dozens of Chinese Apps
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What’s New in the Unredacted Mueller Report?
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Greater Than the Sum of the Parts: Cumulative Charging of Islamic State Fighters in Domestic Trials
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Senate Judiciary Committee Examines the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and Coronavirus-Related Suits Against China
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Canadian Authorities Charge Teenager With Terrorism Over Incel-Based Violence
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The Geopolitical Ramifications of Starlink Internet Service?
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The Role of Federal Courts in Coronavirus-Related Immigration Detention Litigation
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Cascading Security Through the Internet of Things Supply Chain
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The United Nations and the Accidental Rise of Covert Intervention
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Federal Privacy Legislation Should Protect Civil Rights
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The Case Against EU Cyber Sanctions for the Bundestag Hack
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The Law of Classified Information: A Primer
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Water Wars: The Pandemic’s Great Power Competition at Sea
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What’s in the Many Coronavirus-Related Lawsuits Against China?
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Hold Police Accountable by Changing Public Tort Law, Not Just Qualified Immunity
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House Judiciary Hearing on Political Interference at the Department of Justice
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In Privacy Legislation, a Private Right of Action Is Not an All-or-Nothing Proposition
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Did Twitter Violate U.S. Sanctions Law?
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What Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Mean for Climate Change?
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The Flood of Online Misinformation Around the George Floyd Protests
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How Debates About Police Reform Echo Arguments Over Counterinsurgency
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Five Questions about Geoffrey Berman’s Removal
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The Challenges of Effective Counterterrorism Intelligence in the 2020s
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The Justice Department’s Thoughtful Proposals for Section 230 Reform
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Why Do Some Protests Turn Violent and Others Don’t?
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Troops Clash Along Chinese-Indian Border; U.S. and China Hold High-Level Diplomatic Talks
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A Quick Analysis of Bolton’s Response to the Government’s Emergency Request for Prior Restraint
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As India and China Clash, JFK’s ‘Forgotten Crisis’ Is Back
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Why Was Tear Gas Used to Quell American Protests?
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Questions for the Government in the Bolton Book TRO Hearing(s)
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The Supreme Court Rules That Trump’s DACA Rescission Doesn’t Pass Muster
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Preemption: A Balanced National Approach to Protecting All Americans’ Privacy
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On Facial Recognition, the U.S. Isn’t China—Yet
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Assessing the Government’s Lawsuit Against John Bolton
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Senate Report Finds Poor Executive Branch Oversight of Chinese State-Owned Telecoms
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Negotiating With Jihadists in the Sahel and Nigeria
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The Pentagon’s Proposal to Fill the Swamp
Read the original article: The Pentagon’s Proposal to Fill the Swamp The Pentagon, looking northeast with the Potomac River and Washington Monument behind. (Source: Official Defense Department Photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond) Why is the Pentagon trying to grease…
Why Were Out-of-State National Guard Units in Washington, D.C.? The Justice Department’s Troubling Explanation
Read the original article: Why Were Out-of-State National Guard Units in Washington, D.C.? The Justice Department’s Troubling Explanation National Guard troops stand on the Lincoln Memorial during June 2020 protests in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Sgt. First Class Jon Soucy)…
We Filed Suit Over Trump’s Missing War Powers Report
Read the original article: We Filed Suit Over Trump’s Missing War Powers Report For more than three months, President Trump has been sitting on an important report outlining his views about when and where he has the legal authority to…
The Rules of Engagement Are the Wrong Lexicon for Deterrence Signaling
Read the original article: The Rules of Engagement Are the Wrong Lexicon for Deterrence Signaling Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy vessels cross the bows of U.S. military ships in international waters of the Arabian Gulf, April 15, 2020. (Source:…
What Made Trump’s Protest Response in D.C. Unique?
Read the original article: What Made Trump’s Protest Response in D.C. Unique? Soldiers sit in front of the Lincoln Memorial on June 6, 2020. (By: Victoria Pickering, https://flic.kr/p/2j9Nu4o; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) In his June 1 remarks responding to the…
Energy Grid Supply-Chain Risks and U.S.-China Entanglement
Read the original article: Energy Grid Supply-Chain Risks and U.S.-China Entanglement Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/42787780@N04/8644780228 On May 1, President Trump signed an executive order on securing the U.S. bulk-power system, aimed at limiting foreign influence in the U.S. energy grid by targeting…
Health Diplomacy in Africa: Competition and Opportunity
Read the original article: Health Diplomacy in Africa: Competition and Opportunity The World Food Programme distributes aid in Zimbabwe while observing social distancing guidelines in April 2020. Photo credit: Claire Neville/WFP via USAID on Medium Editor’s Note: The coronavirus pandemic…
What Is Qualified Immunity, and What Does it Have to Do With Police Reform?
Read the original article: What Is Qualified Immunity, and What Does it Have to Do With Police Reform? Protestors stand across from police officers in riot gear near the White House during protests of George Floyd's killing. (Credit: Matt Kahn)…
Military Commissions Judge Rules That Torture Can Be a Factor in Sentencing
Read the original article: Military Commissions Judge Rules That Torture Can Be a Factor in Sentencing Military judge Col. Douglas K. Watkins issued a ruling on June 4 holding that military judges have “legal authority to grant administrative credit as…
Southeast Asia’s Overlooked Foreign Fighter Problem
Read the original article: Southeast Asia’s Overlooked Foreign Fighter Problem Indonesian President Joko Widodo addresses a crowd at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. in 2015 (Brookings Institution/Paul Morigi/https://flic.kr/p/BBbG98/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continues to confront a…
Regulating Offensive Online Speech—Are the Times Finally A-Changin’?
Read the original article: Regulating Offensive Online Speech—Are the Times Finally A-Changin’? Someone opens the Twitter app on their phone (World's Direction/https://flic.kr/p/UdzJRj/Public Domain) The fast-moving escalation in the conflict between President Trump and Twitter in the last week of May…
Trump Revokes Hong Kong’s Special Status; China Pushes to Win Global Tech Race
Read the original article: Trump Revokes Hong Kong’s Special Status; China Pushes to Win Global Tech Race President Trump, joined by senior Cabinet members, announces he will revoke Hong Kong’s special status and terminate U.S. relations with the World Health…
How to Fix America’s Failing Sanctions Policy
Read the original article: How to Fix America’s Failing Sanctions Policy U.S. Department of the Treasury (Nathan Rupert, https://flic.kr/p/uJ3y7y; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) In his landmark 1921 book “The Command of the Air,” the Italian military theorist Giulio Douhet argued…
On Rod Rosenstein’s Peculiar Testimony
Read the original article: On Rod Rosenstein’s Peculiar Testimony Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks at the 2018 State of the Net Conference. (Flickr/Internet Education Foundation, https://flic.kr/p/JXuFDg; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) The United States is facing three concurrent crises: a…
Lawfare Live: Careers in National Security
Read the original article: Lawfare Live: Careers in National Security Careers in national security can seem like a mysterious black box to those on the outside. However, we at Lawfare know that there are many aspiring professionals out there who…
Department of Homeland Security Law Enforcement Agencies Require Expanded Oversight
Read the original article: Department of Homeland Security Law Enforcement Agencies Require Expanded Oversight Acting Sec. of Homeland Security Chad Wolf with members of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division outside the White House, May 31, 2020 (U.S. Dept.…