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The Early Edition: August 9, 2017
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. NORTH KOREA “Fire and…
What A Foreign Intelligence Analysis of President Trump Would Look Like
[Editor’s note: In governments around the world, intelligence agencies produce “leadership profiles” of foreign heads of state and other key figures. These assessments…
No, the U.S. Is Not Bombing ISIS Prisons on Some Theory Prison Labor Contributes to ISIS’s Economy
A recent post at Lawfare—titled “The Al-Mayadeen Prison Bombing and the Problem of War-Sustaining Targets”—suggests that the U.S. military may have struck a prison in Syria…
Kenya’s Elections Matter for the U.S.
A police officer watches over a polling station at Olympic Primary School in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, on August 8, 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya. Today, Kenyans are…
The Early Edition: August 8, 2017
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. NORTH KOREA “The unwise…
The Functions and Potential (but Fixable) Flaws of the “Protect Mueller” Bills
On Thursday, two bipartisan groups of senators introduced legislation to afford Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III greater protection against removal. Senators Thom Tillis…
Tweets, Trans, and the American Military
On the morning of July 26, President Donald Trump turned out a triptych of tweets taking a policy position banning transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. military.…
Trump’s New War on Leaks: Reporters Caught in the Crossfire?
At a press conference on August 4, Attorney General Jeff Sessions condemned “in the strongest possible terms the staggering number of leaks” of classified national security…
The Early Edition: August 7, 2017
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. NORTH KOREA North Korea’s…
Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (July 29-August 4)
I. Transgender Military Ban Brenda S. “Sue” Fulton, Trump’s Trans Ban is Bad for Military Readiness (Thursday, August 3) Eugene R. Fidell, Your Tweet Is My Command (Monday,…
Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (July 28-August 4)
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the latest installment of Norms Watch, our series tracking both the flouting of democratic norms by the Trump administration and the erosion of…
The Resignation of George Selim and the Implications for CVE in the U.S.
George Selim, the first head of the countering violent extremism (CVE) office at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and of the federal CVE task force, resigned July 28.…