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A phone showing app icons for WeChat and TikTok. An American flag and Chinese flag are in the background behind the phone.

Balancing Reality and Fear: Why An Alarmist Take on Chinese Influence Operations Is Counterproductive

Five specific reasons not to exaggerate the threat of Chinese cyber influence operations.
A group of Asian women who sex trafficked into brothels set up by the Japanese military during World War II protest in front of the Japanese Embassy 18 September, 2000, in Washington DC, demanding an apology for their enslavement. Their signs read, “Sex slavery = crime;” “Japan where is your conscience;” “200,000 women enslaved;” and more.

Japan Cannot Claim Sovereign Immunity and Also Insist that WWII Sexual Slavery was Private Contractual Acts

In South Korea, two conflicting decisions by the Seoul Central District Court are testing the limited exceptions to sovereign immunity in a historic case of sexual violence in…
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Belarusian human rights activist and politician who ran for the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, delivers a speech during the Sakharov in the European Parliament on December 16, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. Sviatlana stands at a podium in front of a sign reading, “The democratic opposition in Belarus.”

Can Belarus Be Free? Yes, But the West Will Need to Show More Resolve – and Less Fear of Putin

Lukashenka is escalating his repression, defying the West, even as democratically elected leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya visit Washington.
Cubans are seen outside Havana's Capitol during a demonstration against the government of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana, on July 11, 2021.

Turning Cuba’s Internet Back On: International Legal Options

Top cyber law expert writes that the United States government can restore Internet and social media service to Cuban people under international law.
A cylindrical cipher device.

Encryption Originalism

Encryption originalism views strong encryption as the modern reemergence of Founding Era practice of employing—often unbreakable—ciphers.
Medical workers wearing personal protective gear work to remove a body from the hospital outside of the Brooklyn Hospital on March 31, 2020 in New York City.

New Legislation Needed to Prepare for the Next Pandemic

A new bill would give the secretary of Health and Human Services a seat on the National Security Council, and more.
Afghan graduates in caps and gowns from the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) listen to the Afghan national anthem at a graduation ceremony on campus on May 21, 2019, in western Kabul, Afghanistan.

Education Is a Permanent Commitment

Less present in media representations of what's happening in Afghanistan is the story of who remains behind and what we continue to believe is possible for Afghanistan.
The secondary entry in the Department of Justice Building in Washington, DC. An American flag hangs above the entryway and words etched over the doorway read, “The place of justice is a hallowed place.”

Restoring Justice to DOJ

Healing Trump-era wounds at DOJ will require understanding the extent of the abuse and taking specific steps to prevent repetition.
The U.S. Department of Justice Building, where the Office of Legal Counsel resides.

Long-Withheld Office of Legal Counsel Records Reveal Agency’s Postwar Influence

The Knight Institute is publishing 14 indexes cataloging the titles of more than a thousand unclassified opinions authored by the OLC between 1945 and 1958.
An Afghan woman trader is interviewed in her shop at the Kabul International AgFair in Kabul on November 1, 2013. Clothes hang behind her and jewelry sits on the table in front of them.

With No Choice But to Continue, Women’s Entrepreneurship Presses Ahead in Afghanistan

Afghan women entrepreneurs continue to launch businesses even in the face of dire security and economic conditions.
Allen Weisselberg, Trump Organization CFO, leaves Manhattan Criminal Court after his arraignment in State Supreme Court on July 01, 2021 in Lower Manhattan in New York City.

How to Read the Weisselberg and Trump Entities Indictment: A Conversation with Andrew Weissmann

After the first wave of commentary, a discussion of how the prosecutors can obtain Weisselberg's testimony even if he does not cooperate, what the indictment and arraignment hearing…
A statue of a Kuomintang soldier points a gun through a fence on February 04, 2021 in Lieyu, an outlying island of Kinmen that is the closest point between Taiwan and China. Across the water is seen the skyline of the Chinese city of Xiamen.

Taiwan vs. Tyranny: The US Must Redouble Its Commitment to Secure this Shining Hill of Democracy in East Asia

US backing for Taiwan can stymie China’s relentless creep in East Asia, and preserve a democratic beacon in the global march of illiberalism.
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