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Featured Articles

U.S. Libel Case Over Russian Poisoning Takes Aim at Kremlin Propaganda

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The Torture of Forcibly Separating Children from their Parents

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Dispelling Some Myths About Consular Immunity and the Khashoggi Investigation

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Trump Administration Missed Crucial Opportunity This Summer to Rein In Saudi Arabia

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What Are the Consequences of the Trump Administration’s Recent Treaty Withdrawals?

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Justice Dept Must Open Criminal Investigation Into Potential War Crimes by U.S. Mercenaries in Yemen

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Family Separations: Evolved Not Resolved

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Annotation of Sec. Pompeo’s Certification of Yemen War: Civilian Casualties and Saudi-Led Coalition

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U.S. Should Condition Saudi Membership in Elite Financial Club on Progress Prosecuting Terrorists and Observing the Rule of Law

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An Explainer: Senate’s Letter on Khashoggi and the Global Magnitsky Act

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Did the U.S. Fail Its “Duty to Warn” Jamal Khashoggi? How U.S. Directive 191 Applies to Kidnapping Threats

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What Facts Would Deny the Trump Campaign First Amendment Protections in Colluding with Russia

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Taking Stock of the FBI’s Role in Senate Confirmations after Kavanaugh

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The Social Meaning of Confirming Kavanaugh is Inescapable

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Who Might Replace Rod Rosenstein and What Would it Mean for the Mueller and SDNY Investigations?: A Deep Dive

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Grading the Pompeo Certification on Yemen War and Civilian Protection: Time for Serious Reconsideration

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Executive Privilege and the Public Interest: Why the President Can’t Block Release of the Mueller Report

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Woodward’s Book Places Trump’s Policy on Afghan War in a Good Light–But his leadership ultimately falls short

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Why John Bolton vs. Int’l Criminal Court 2.0 is Different from Version 1.0

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U.S. Bombing of Drug Labs in Afghanistan Is Counterproductive to Fighting the Taliban

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Guantanamo is No Answer–But Here’s What Can Work

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The Campaign Finance Case Against Donald Trump is a Strong One: Just Ask John Edwards’ Prosecutors

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DHS Spins the Border Numbers… Again

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

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

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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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In Saudi Arabia, Countering Terrorism Becomes Chimera for Rights Abuses

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The Technicolor Zone of Cyberspace, Part 2

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

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