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Featured Articles

Peter Strzok’s Firing Gives the Bureau a Chance to Reset

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Reading Between the Lines: Is Gates Cooperating About More Than Manafort?

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Summer Slowdown at Just Security

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DHS Spins the Border Numbers… Again

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Brett Kavanaugh and the Risk of a Return to Torture

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Trump Could Learn from Gore on How to Handle an Election Interference Scandal

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Election Interference Is Just a Symptom. Evaporation of Trust is the Disease.

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Just Following Orders: Overdue Oversight and Unanswered Questions on Family Separations

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Grace v. Sessions– Suing to Stop Shutting Down Asylum Claims at the Border

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Al-Qaeda and ISIS are on Their Heels in Yemen, But Will Return Unless We Help Build a Lasting Peace

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U.S. Sanctions against Turkey Undercut a Key Human Rights Tool

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Is Trump Providing the Push the EU Needs to Boost Its Own Defense?

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Lawmakers in UK and US Propose Sweeping Changes to Tech Policies to Combat Misinformation

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Precision and Civilian Casualties: Policymakers Believe Drones Can Be Precise. That May Not Be Enough.

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Who Says Collusion is a Crime: The Justice Department

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The Trial of Paul Manafort: What to Expect

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Reports: Carter Page Was Subject to FISA Warrant in 2013/2014

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Security Clearance Removals and Presidential Politicization of Intelligence

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A Path to Prosecuting President Trump

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If Trump Revoked Critics’ Security Clearances, Could They Sue?

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Two Important New Civilian Casualties Provisions in the Defense Authorization Bill

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U.S.-Russia Military Coop: Sec. Mattis Doesn’t Need Congress’ Permission, But Congress Has Control Options

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Does a Years’ Old Congressional Statute Prevent a Trump-Putin Agreement for Military Cooperation?

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The Trump-Bolton Misdirection on Russian Extradition: Plenty of Legal Options Exist to Gain Custody of Russian Suspects

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What Judge Kavanaugh’s “Originalism” Means for the Country

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Setting the Record Straight: Brett Kavanaugh’s Views on Criminal Investigation of the President

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Information Operations are a Cybersecurity Problem: Toward a New Strategic Paradigm to Combat Disinformation

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Time for a Reckoning in Yemen

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Studies: Mass Detention of Migrant Families is Unnecessary, Inefficient

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Child Separation in the Courts

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The Radical Supreme Court Travel Ban Opinion–But why it might not apply to other immigrants’ rights cases

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The Broad Reach of Carpenter v. United States

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Where Family Separation Began: A Case in El Paso Shows Flores is the Solution, Not the Problem

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“Zero Tolerance” and the Detention of Children: Torture under International Law

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In Saudi Arabia, Countering Terrorism Becomes Chimera for Rights Abuses

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Paul Manafort = Evidence of Collusion

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The Department of Defense’s Report on Civilian Casualties: A Step Forward in Transparency?

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The Technicolor Zone of Cyberspace, Part 2

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Will Trump Administration Claim Congress Authorized Force against Iran?–Analysis of Existing Statutory Authority and New Proposals

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OLC’s Formal (and Remarkably Broad) Defense of the April Syria Strikes

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UPDATE: Mapping States’ Reactions to the Syria Strikes of April 2018

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