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History can be a good friend of confirmation bias. We often look to the past for lessons that support beliefs that we already have instead of the ones best supported by a deep analysis of the evidence.
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Matthew Kahn posted the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel’s May 31 memorandum opinion on the U.S.’s April 2018 airstrikes on Syrian chemical-weapons facilites. Jack Goldsmith contended that the ...
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Tuesday, May 29 at 12:15 p.m.: New America will host a discussion on “Counterterrorism Strikes Under Trump: What Has Changed?” Joshua Geltzer, L...
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Editor’s Note: May 22, 2018, marked the twentieth anniversary of referenda in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland that laid the groundwork for one of the most celebrated peace accords in the mod...
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On Monday, the White House hosted a meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats concerning the FBI’s use of a confi...
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Editor’s Note: Tension between the United States and China is rising, and several problems in the region could even lead to war—a frightening risk that deserves serious attention. Oriana Mastro, my colle...
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On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee released more than 2,500 pages of transcripts and communications connected to the Committee’s investigation of Donald Trump, Jr.’s June 9, 2016 meeting at the...
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In her new book, "Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay," Amanda Tyler presents a comprehensive account of the legal and political history of habeas corpus in wartime in th...
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A review of Tim Maurer’s “Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power” (Cambridge, 2018).
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Editor’s Note: When foreigners give money to political organizations, both the donor and the recipient often become suspect. Governments around the world that fear criticism, oppose human rights, or othe...
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On Friday, Benjamin Wittes interviewed former FBI director and deputy attorney general James Comey before a live audience at the Brookings Institution for the Lawfare Podcast:
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Editor’s Note: Although Internet comments have made great strides in trying to combat extremist content online, they have a long way to go. In particular, much of what jihadists use for propaganda is non...
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On Monday evening, the Washington Post reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had threatened to subpoena President Trump to appear before a grand jury should Trump refuse to speak with federal inve...
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Encryption technologies play a complicated role in today’s connected, mobile, data-driven world. My colleagues, Herbert Burkert and Urs Gasser, and I have written a paper offering a conceptual framework ...
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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, authors of the new book “How Democracies Die,” join Benjamin Wittes for a conversation about the conditions under which democracies survive and how American democracy ...
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A review of Samuel Moyn’s “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” (Harvard, 2018).
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The Democratic National Committee’s lawsuit against the Russian Federation will run aground, as Ingrid Wuerth notes, unless the DNC can find a way around Russia’s immunity in American courts.
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The Hoover Institution has just published a monograph of mine entitled, “A Helsinki Conference for Asia.” It can be accessed here or read below. This monograph proposes a comprehensive set of agreements ...
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