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Today’s Headlines and Commentary
On Saturday, a gunman opened fire in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas killing 22 people and wounding many others, the Dallas Morning News reports. -
How to Create a Terrorism Designation Process Useful to Technology Companies
On August 3, a shooter opened fire at a crowded Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people. Shortly beforehand, it seems that he posted a screed on the online messageboard 8chan, framing the shooting a... -
Is the Threat of ‘Fake Science’ Real?
In the early 1980s, Soviet intelligence began Operation Infektion—a campaign to erode trust in the U.S. government by orchestrating a series of scientific papers and news articles arguing that the U.S. g... -
Revisiting Marawi: Women and the Struggle Against the Islamic State in the Philippines
Editor’s Note: The Islamic State’s crimes against women are well known, but it has also managed to appeal to women to join the fight directly or otherwise support the group. Too often, however, governmen... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Mary Ann Glendon on Unalienable Rights
Mary Ann Glendon is the chair of the Commission on Unalienable Rights, announced by Secretary Pompeo on July 8, 2019, to great controversy. The commission was charged with examining the bases of human ri... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Friday, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes shared the third episode of The Report, Lawfare’s podcast series telling the story contained in Robert Mueller’s 448-page report. The series is available on... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Early Friday morning local time, North Korea launched short-range projectiles off its east coast, according to the South Korean military, Yonhap News Agency reports. The South Korean presidential office ... -
National Security Highlights from the Second Democratic Primary Debate
On Tuesday and Wednesday, CNN held the second round of debates of the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, moderated by Jake Tapper, Don Lemon and Dana Bash. We’ve combed through the transcripts from both n... -
Judge Vacates Trump Asylum Order
Judge Randolph Moss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated on Friday a presidential proclamation barring people who enter the country outside ports of entry from seeking asylum. ... -
Confidence in Mueller’s Investigation: July Update
In July 2017, we began an ongoing investigation of the public’s confidence in national security matters. Since October of that year, we have been tracking public confidence in the work of Special Counsel... -
The Report, Episode Three: The Campaign and the Leaks
Trump campaign officials engaged with the Russian social media manipulation operation as unwitting dupes. But the story of the Trump campaign’s involvement with the GRU email hacking operation is more co... -
On Hong Kong, the United States Must Find Its Voice
Editor's Note: This piece is part of the ongoing collaboration between the John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings and the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Learn more here. It originally app...
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