Freedom of the Press

On Friday, the White House barred specific news organizations from attending a press briefing by spokesman Sean Spicer. Among the organizations excluded from the question and answer…

Is there a real possibility of the erosion of democratic institutions toward authoritarianism in the United States? What can the experience of other countries tell us about how…

The last part of 2016 has not brought much positive news on justice and accountability across Africa. No less that three States — Burundi, South Africa and Gambia — announced…

In 1999, Amartya Sen argued that the health of a country could be determined by examining the health of its press.  One metric of the fitness of a country’s press is the safety…

The English judiciary continues to show its habit of subservience to the government on security matters. In August 2013, David Miranda, who was carrying a hard disk with files…

I suspect we’re quickly reaching the point in the conversation about the relationship between national security journalism and espionage in which everything has been said,…

I thank both Steve Vladeck and Marty Lederman for commenting on my post, a post that was drawn from a longer article, Journalism or Espionage? just published in the fall issue…

The detention of David Miranda, the partner of Guardian newspaper journalist Glenn Greenwald, has sparked widespread controversy and international press coverage (including the…

Following up on Steve’s post, and in timely anticipation of Just Security’s event this afternoon, I was struck by Gabriel Schoenfeld’s somewhat fevered suggestion that the…