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).