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Key Questions in U.S. Cyber Attack on “Iranian Spy Ship”

What was the nature of the operation? How is Iran likely to respond? What are the implications for conflict escalation, or de-escalation?
Protesters burn tires as they block a road during demonstrations called by opposition parties in the Senegalese capital Dakar on Feb. 4, 2024, to protest the postponement of the presidential election. Protesters and police clashed, a day after President Macky Sall announced the indefinite postponement of the election. (Photo by JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images)

US Government’s $300 Million for West Africa — How to Make it Count

To turn the tide in democracies under stress, the US needs to balances near-term increases in stability with aid for democratic governance.
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Why and How the Senate Should Swiftly Dismiss the Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas

"The articles are also facially and substantively defective in many other respects. Upon convening as a court of impeachment, the Senate should swiftly reject the articles as a…
Army Captain Ibrahim Traore, Burkina Faso's new president, arrives at a ceremony for the 35th anniversary of the assassination of revolutionary president Thomas Sankara, in Ouagadougou, on October 15, 2022. Traore had taken power in a coup two weeks earlier (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images)

As Senate Considers New Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Human Rights Focus Would Strengthen US Policy

As government forces battle armed groups in Burkina Faso, civilians face daily abuses, even death, amid a range of violations of their security and their property. At least 6,201…
Palestinian children collect food at a donation point provided by a charity group in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on November 30, 2023, amid a truce in fighting between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. One boy reaching for a plate of food looks gaunt. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

How Israel Took the Terrorists’ Bait

To thwart Hamas’s strategy, Israel must commit to protect civilians. And Biden must defend human rights and international law with action.
US President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House

Dissecting Trump’s “Peacefully and Patriotically” Defense of the January 6th Attack

An analysis of former President Trump's reference to "peacefully and patriotically" in his January 6th Ellipse speech - for the trial and court of public opinion.
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Biden Can, But Shouldn’t, Federalize the Texas National Guard

Invocation of the Insurrection Act in response to Texas' obstruction of CBP agents at the U.S.-Mexico border would be inappropriate.

How Long Will Trump’s Immunity Appeal Take? Analyzing the Alternative Timelines

Likely trial start dates for former president Trump in DC, now that the Circuit Court has ruled and the Supreme Court has yet to weigh in.
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The Biden Administration Must Use Civil Rights Enforcement to Push Back Against Texas’s Racist Invocation of Invasion

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's invocation of "invasion" is based in the white supremacist "great replacement" conspiracy theory.
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Immigration Is Not an “Invasion” under the Constitution

The claim that a large increase in the number of migrants gaining entry at the southern border is an “invasion” is constitutional nonsense.
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Why the ICJ Ruling Misses the Mark: Mitigating Civilian Harm With An Enemy Engaged in Human Shielding

Former CENTCOM Commander General (ret.) Joseph Votel and Professor Claire Finkelstein critically analyze South Africa's positions before the International Court of Justice in…
A local woman prepares to lay a candle among stelae at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called the Holocaust Memorial, on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 26, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. Jan. 27, 2024 is the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the biggest of the many concentration camps used by the Nazis during World War II to enslave and exterminate millions of Jews, political opponents, Roma and other Nazi-deemed undesirables. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Finding Light in the Darkness: A Meditation on Remembrance

(Adapted from an address delivered today at a joint Muslim-Jewish observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Srebrenica Memorial Center in Potoćari, Bosnia and…
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