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Breaking news from the New York Times:
The White House acknowledged on Thursday that two hostages held by Al Qaeda were accidentally killed in an American government counterterrorism
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The Washington Post has the latest here. Key points:
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In a 233-page blockbuster decision, Uri Avnery v. Israeli Knesset, an expanded 9-justice panel of the Israeli Supreme Court issued a split ruling on a controversial 2011 law restricting political boycott...
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I received the following email from a government lawyer who was involved in the drone strike discussions about my post yesterday about Harold Koh's role in those discussions:
I think your characterizati...
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Judicial imperialism is defeating the British armed forces. At least this is what the authors of a report recently published by the Policy Exchange---an influential British think tank---claim.
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I would normally lay off writing about the flap that has erupted at NYU over Harold Koh's presence there. Academic politics don't interest me much. Student protests interest me even less. And student pro...
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Andrew McCarthy has a thoughtful response to my critique of his weekend column on the Corker Review bill. I recommend it.
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Six Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area have been arrested on material support charges, based on allegations that they were attempting to travel to Syria to join ISIL. The complaint and corresp...
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The civil war in Yemen and Saudi-led intervention against the Houthi rebels there have undermined efforts to negotiate a political settlement and are making the country’s already-disastrous humanitarian ...
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Andrew McCarthy, like the New York Times, doesn’t like Senator Corker’s Iran Review bill. But in contrast to the NYT’s argument that the bill “inappropriately diminishe[s] the president’s power” (a view...
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A grand jury in Ohio has indicted Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, a recently-naturalized US citizen and resident of Columbus, with two material support counts (and one false statement count) based on allegatio...
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For the past couple of weeks, a Saudi-led coalition has been engaged in a substantial air campaign against Houthi forces in Yemen.