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The U.S. sanctions against International Criminal Court judges and officials are a threat to constitutional rights in the United States.

To maintain sanctions' effectiveness as a tool, governments should strive to implement them with clarity, consistency, and credibility.

Tracking the use of State power requires systematically identifying linkages between individual developments and broader trends. This interactive graphic offers one method.

Congress should build a durable private-public standing forum in the next National Defense Authorization Act.

Anthropic v. Department of War reveals why courts must distinguish genuine national security judgments from pretextual ones and how to do it.

Our democratic institutions are under strain, but one thing must be true if any reform is to take hold: government must deliver, and that delivery must be felt by all people.

America’s civil service, built for a bygone era, urgently needs bold, comprehensive reform to build a government capable of delivering for the 21st century.

Together, the Trump administration’s vision of the Clean Air Act’s exemption authority and shutting courts out from review is one of completely unchecked presidential power.

How to understand the Treasury Department's sanctions relief for Iran's oil sector, its quick reversal, and what to look for going forward.

The attempt to condition states' counterterrorism funding on changes to election rules is unlawful and likely to be challenged in court.

The use of LLMs for foreign intelligence surveillance erodes the rules put in place to safeguard Americans' civil liberties.

Steps should be taken to strengthen grand juries by giving courts and defense counsel more tools to act as a much-needed check on prosecutors.