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Facing a looming Friday-night deadline to prevent a government shutdown, House and Senate negotiators released the text of a $1.3 trillion spending bill last night. Running 2,000-plus pages, the bill bot...
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John Dowd, the lawyer leading President Trump’s response to the special counsel investigation, resigned Thursday, the New York Times reports. Dowd had considered resigning several times before, believing...
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The House intelligence committee released the following findings and recommendations based on its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, in advance of the release of its final...
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The Senate Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday morning on the Energy Department's atomic energy defense programs. The committee will hear testimony from Energy Secretary Rick Perry (r...
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Editor’s Note: Belgium has earned a bad name in counterterrorism circles, with critics charging that its security services did too little too late when it came to disrupting the Islamic State and other g...
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On March 18, a theatrical production took place in Russia. It involved elaborate stage settings, set designs and a handpicked cast of actors. Among them was the young socialite who held her cards close t...
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Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic have usefully reviewed the models that Special Counsel Robert Mueller might draw on deciding whether and how to tell the world what he learned in his investigation of t...
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Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order from Chaos.
Two things come together this week that highlight the deep connection between today’s Saudi policies and the 2003 Iraq War: Saudi Cro...
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On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument in Al-Alwi v. Trump. Chief Judge Merrick Garland, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson (joining remotely) and Judge Thomas Griffith reviewed the...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard oral argument on Tuesday in Al-Alwi v. Trump. The panel was composed of Chief Judge Merrick Garland and Judges Karen Henderson and Thomas Griffith. So...
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The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa is holding a hearing on Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. on the “Implications of a U.S.-Saudi Arabia Nuclear Cooperation Agreement for the...
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Against the advice of his national security advisers, President Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to congratulate him on his victory in the country’s presidential election, the New...
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President Trump issued an executive order last Wednesday blocking Singaporean chipmaker Broadcom’s bid to acquire American competitor Qualcomm after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United Stat...
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The House Foreign Affairs Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. on the Fiscal Year 2019 foreign assistance budget. The committee will hear testimony from Mark Green, the administrator of ...
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The Senate intelligence committee is holding a hearing Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. on election security. The committee will hear testimony from the following witnesses:
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Last week, Lawfare covered the release of a new war powers report required by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2018.
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In a post last week, Neema Singh Guliani of the ACLU and Naureen Shah of Amnesty International disagreed with our earlier arguments as to why the CLOUD Act is good for privacy and human rights.
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Over the weekend, Jon Lovett—a former speechwriter for President Obama and a fixture of the Pod Save America podcast—tweeted an interesting question:
Question I don’t know the answer to - is it possib...
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Shortly before last Sunday’s election in Russia, Alina Polyakova spoke to Liza Osetinskaya, editor of The Bell and former editor in chief of Forbes Russia and independent Russian news agency RBC. They di...
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Earlier this evening, the U.S. Senate voted to table the motion to discharge S.J. Res. 54, the joint resolution seeking to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen, making it unlikely that th...
