Congress

There was a time when the US didn't promote human rights or even consider it much of an objective in foreign policy at all.

An ambassador responds to a colleague: release, with appropriate redaction, would support, not inhibit, State Department accountability.

The United States should take immediate steps to halt all security cooperation activities with Rwanda until concrete conditions are met.

A member of the country's tripartite Presidency makes the security case for admission, saying Finland's entry shows the risks and benefits.

"Mexico’s litigation is part of wider efforts to hold irresponsible members of the U.S. gun industry accountable for transborder damage caused with their products on its territory."

Though regulatory efforts have worked to monitor the app’s potential national security threats so far, politicians growing impatient.

The field shows important signs of critical gains but also more work to do to elevate women, particularly women of color.

Section 1202 of the NDAA is an overbroad authority that risks widening the aperture for U.S. forces to engage in and direct combat in unauthorized, foreign wars.

Section 502B(c) is a potent tool to accelerate congressional oversight of support to countries with concerning human rights records. 

For the Court’s reputation and rule of law values, the Justices should put their own house in order, rather than have it done for them.

Tensions between Iran and the United States are escalating again following tit-for-tat hostilities in Syria.

"An overarching concern of the senators was the organizational capacity of the State Department to respond nimbly to [global] challenges."