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The Russians are coming. What are we going to do about it?
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Before the American president took to Twitter, Estonia’s president, Toomas Ilves, had used the social media platform to communicate with his country. President Ilves was the head of state of Estonia from...
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On Friday, April 13, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington ruled that its preliminary injunction on the president’s ban on military service by openly transgender individuals will...
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On April 13, China’s delegation to United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems announced the “desire to negotiate and conclude” a new protocol for the Convention on ...
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The federal judge for the southern district of New York denied President Trump’s request to review the materials seized by the FBI from the home, office, and hotel room of Michael Cohen, the president’s ...
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On Tuesday, the Justice Department filed a notice informing the D.C. federal district court of the government's intention to transfer the detained John Doe U.S.-citizen enemy combatant to the custody of ...
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Microsoft, also known as Microsoft-Ireland, that the Cloud Act has rendered the case moot. The court’s per curiam opinion is below.
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In light of the amazing developments last Friday, we decided to move the show up to today. Tune in for discussion of five things that happened just that one day:
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The White House has released the following text of a letter sent to the speaker of the House and president pro tempore of the Senate to serve as notice of military engagement in Syria on April 13, consis...
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U.S. Launches Punitive Strikes on Assad Regime’s Chemical Weapons Facilities
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No time to read the draft 2018 authorization for use of military force? I’m not sure this post is all that much shorter, but at least it’s not written in statutory format. The following is my assessment ...
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On April 6, for the third weekend in a row, Palestinians residents of Gaza confronted the Israeli Defense Forces near the fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel. According to Palestinian sources, ov...
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In episode 212 of the podcast, Stewart is at RSA, and Brian Egan, Maury Shenk, and Pete Jeydel of Steptoe are joined by David Kris and Nate Jones of Culper Partners LLC to cover the good, the bad and the...
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Sens. Bob Corker, Tim Kaine, Jeff Flake, Chris Coons, Todd Young, and Bill Nelson introduced the following draft authorization for use of military force against designated terrorist groups on Monday:
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“Justified, legitimate and proportionate.” These are the words that U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley at an emergency United Nations Security Council session and the director of the Joint Staff, Lt. Gen. Kenne...
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In a filing submitted Sunday evening, President Trump’s lawyers requested that a federal judge allow the president to review the files seized during the FBI’s raids on the office of Michael Cohen, Trump’...
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I think the question of whether the U.N. Charter is law is misleading or meaningless or both, for reasons that I hope this post will make apparent. But now that I have your attention, I want to sketch a ...
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With speculation about whether President Trump will fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller continuing to swirl, we’ve seen several developments related to legislation that would protect the special counsel....
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Editor’s Note: Syria's civil war has many losers, but Iran is not one of them. Tehran backed its ally in Damascus to the hilt from the start of the civil war, and its ally survived in large part because ...
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