Accountability

A series exploring the powers and authorities state and local governments have to check federal overreach and protect democratic norms and individual rights.

A House Foreign Affairs Committee report sheds light on the Trump administration's contentious interventions into Bosnia's politics.

The United States is deporting third-country nationals to Equatorial Guinea despite its documented pattern of human rights abuses.

The global war on terror demands reflection and reckoning for the damage it caused to human rights and the international legal order.

The law of armed conflict is not suited to provide the legal clarity the public desires immediately following attacks that kill civilians.

Lagging turnout of young voters in southern Africa should be understood not as apathy, but as a refusal to endorse existing political choices.

More than 2,400 children and mothers once linked to ISIS are still held in detention in Roj Camp and other facilities in northeastern Syria.

Thousands mourned Ratko Mladić at his funeral in Belgrade despite his responsibility for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.

Over 175 years later, cities’ historic role as hubs of resistance takes on renewed resonance in today’s era of rising authoritarianism in the United States.

Experts argue that Germany should open a structural investigation into Iran's December 2025 and January 2026 crackdown on protesters.

Host Ryan Goodman is joined by an expert panel to discuss whether the United States has violated the law of armed conflict in its war against Iran.

States need independent agencies with jurisdiction to enforce their residents’ rights so the valuation of those rights are evenhanded and not subject to political will.