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President Trump started out his presidency by giving a speech at the CIA’s headquarters. Quinta Jurecic flagged the video and transcript of Trump’s speech and the various reactions to it, and Benjamin Wi...
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The malevolence of President Trump’s Executive Order on visas and refugees is mitigated chiefly—and perhaps only—by the astonishing incompetence of its drafting and construction.
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order restricting the entry of refugees and immigrants into the United States. The document is also available here, though as of yet it has not been posted ...
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Yesterday’s Executive Order on “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States” triggered alarm among privacy advocates in the U.S. and EU about the continued viability of the economically ...
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The Washington Post chronicles Trump’s actions as he starts to lay the groundwork for the nationalist foreign policy he promised during the campaign and in his inaugural address.
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Wednesday’s news that the Trump Administration was preparing an executive order addressing the detention and interrogation of enemy combatants, coupled with President Trump’s interview comments that “tor...
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Certain segments of the American Right have long been spoiling to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization under the material support statute. And now that Donald Trump is pre...
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The first 9/11 hearings under the Trump administration lurched forward at Guantanamo on Wednesday, but barely lasted the morning before all public sessions were suspended until March.
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China, US allies, and other respond to President Trump's first week
President Trump signs Executive Order withdrawaing the US from the TPP (Photo: EPA)
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President Trump's continued use of a dangerously insecure, out-of-date Android device should cause real panic.
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The recent Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) report on Russia’s efforts to “undermine public faith in the US democratic process” through “an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the U...
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The next in our series of book soirees at the Hoover Institution will take place from 5-7 pm on Wednesday, February 1, when Benjamin Wittes will interview Edward Jay Epstein on his new book, How America ...
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Editor's Note: This piece originally appeared in Markaz.
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The New York Times informs us that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has canceled his visit to the White House next Tuesday in the wake of President Trump’s executive order mandating the building of a...
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Digital commerce across the Atlantic is highly dependent on the free flow of data. And that, in turn, is dependent on the existence of roughly equivalent privacy protections on both sides of the Atlanti...
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Yesterday, I offered some informed speculation about possible links between espionage arrests in Russia and America's reaction to the Russian hacking of our elections. I have updated the post today to r...
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Yesterday, President Donald Trump took the first step toward constructing a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The executive order that he signed (one of two from yesterday), ordered the federal governme...
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President Trump has announced executive orders on border security and immigration policy—and maybe interrogation. Former military officers are taking senior posts in the National Security Council. And in...
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Cybersecurity is the national security issue that will likely dominate the first one hundred days of the Trump administration. After his briefing with the intelligence community on Russia’s role in the e...
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The end of an administration and the beginning of a new one, like the turn of a year, is a good time to review one’s own analytic record. Doing so is a way of keeping oneself honest and humble, and thus ...