Tehran’s ties to Russia are growing, making Iran a stronger force in the region and increasing the danger it poses to the United States and its allies

Two legal regimes—the law of the sea and the law on the use of force—can apply to damage caused by states to submarine cables during peacetime.

Appeals judges’ acceptance of the government’s positions has been 100-percent correlated with the political party of the judge’s appointer.

Privacy debates are often absolutist; smarter policy would force advocates and critics to confront the trade-offs.

A review of John Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato, “How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy” (Yale University Press, 2023).

Despite the widespread citation of the Cuban missile crisis as the archetype of a president utilizing Article II authority to meet a danger unilaterally, Kennedy’s actions in the 1962 crisis were formall...