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Kim Jong Un told a delegation from South Korea that his regime is willing to commence negotiations with the U.S. aimed at eliminating the country’s nuclear arsenal, the New York Times reports. Kim commit...
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A review of David Patrikarakos's “War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century,” (Basic Books, 2017).
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A few years ago, shortly after stepping down as Assistant Attorney General for National Security, I published a long article called Law Enforcement as a Counterterrorism Tool. As its title suggests, the ...
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Our interview features an excellent and mostly grounded exploration of how artificial intelligence could become a threat as a result of the cybersecurity arms race. Maury Shenk does much of the interview...
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A couple of weeks ago, The Hill reported on the latest legal endeavour of our little Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) project: a new lawsuit we’ve filed with help from our friends at Georgetown Law’s In...
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The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday morning at 9:30 a.m. on "Worldwide Threats." The committee will hear testimony from the following witnesses:
Daniel Coats, director o...
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The application of special interrogation techniques by the Israel Security Agency (ISA) has generated considerable controversy in Israel since the mid 1980s.
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Regime Escalation in Eastern Ghouta Evokes Aleppo
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Kim Jong Un hosted a delegation from South Korea for dinner in Pyongyang on Monday, the Washington Post reports. The dinner follows a thaw in tensions on the Korean peninsula in the wake of the Winter Ol...
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In July, we began a polling project to measure public confidence in government institutions on national security matters on an ongoing basis. As part of this project, we asked a battery of questions in e...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on March 13, when Lawfare's Jack Goldsmith will interview Amy Chua about her new book, “Political T...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Wednesday, March 7 at 9:00 a.m.: The Brookings Institution will host an event on U.S. engagement with China. Rep. Rick Larsen, co-chairman of th...
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Last week, I wrote about a proposed hostile takeover of Qualcomm by Broadcom -- a move that might have national security implications for the development of 5G technology in America. The takeover was to...
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It’s not every week on this show that we get to talk about the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade! And if that’s not an appealing hook to get you to listen, we don...
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Tuesday is the release date for an extraordinary collection of essays published under the title: Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America. The editor of the book, my colleague Cass Sunstein, says ...
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Is vital internet infrastructure at risk from new Russian naval capabilities? NATO’s military leadership has warned in recent months that the Russian navy is aggressively probing undersea communications ...
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It is an understatement to say that Sam Nunberg is playing with fire.
Nunberg, a longtime Trump adviser and former campaign aide who is on the outs with the president, went on a bizarre rampage of media...
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After five months of uncertainty, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) are going to give their uneasy marriage anot...
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Editor’s Note: The relationship between Russia and Turkey has risen and fallen as the two have quarreled over Syria and their respective regional postures in general. MIT's Carol Saivetz examines this re...