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The Week That Will Be
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Children of the Caliphate: Victims or Threat?
Editor’s Note: Of the many horrible things the Islamic State has done, one of the worst is its indoctrination of children and use of them in its gruesome deeds. The children are both victims and perpetra... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Monday, the Supreme Court stayed the partial injunctions against the revised travel ban. Matthew Kahn posted the orders. Peter Margulies detailed the context for the orders and argued that the decisio... -
The Habeas Privilege and Enemy Combatants
PDF version A review of Amanda Tyler's Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay (Oxford, 2017). *** -
The Week That Will Be
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How to Respond When the International Criminal Court Goes after America
Editor’s Note: The International Criminal Court (ICC) is about to investigate U.S. actions in Afghanistan and controversial interrogation practices—a decision the United States has long quietly opposed. ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
On Friday, Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about meetings with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak that took place during the presidential transition... -
Congress and the President in Wartime
PDF version A review of David Barron's Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS (Simon & Schuster, 2016). *** -
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar) Tuesday, November 28 at 11:00 am: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will address the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on The U.S.... -
Foreign Fighter ‘Hot Potato’
Editor’s Note: As the Caliphate collapses, many of its foreign volunteers are fleeing Iraq and Syria. A lot of ink has been spilled (some by me, in fact) on the problem of foreign fighters returning home... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Richard Betts and Matthew Waxman outlined a proposal to constrain and safeguard the president’s authority to launch a first-use nuclear attack. Amanda Sloat explained why the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s c... -
Rational Security: The "Mother May I Launch a Missile" Edition
Should the president have the sole authority to launch nuclear missiles? President Trump designates North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism. And the “grownups” in charge of national security are exhaust...
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