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How Facebook Could Crack the Trump-Russia Case

Facebook should be treated like a crime scene. The social media company likely has troves of data that could provide critical leads for the investigation into possible collusion…

Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (September 8-September 15)

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 ICC’s New Libya Case: Extraterritorial Evidence for an Extraterritorial Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced last week that it had issued a new arrest warrant for Mahmoud Mustafa Busayf Al-Werfalli, a militia leader in Libya. Al-Werfalli…

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 Trans Ban is Bad for Military Readiness

An Army staff sergeant with multiple combat deployments, in charge of an infantry squad. A West Point grad innovating forward-based personnel support in a combat zone. A Lieutenant…

Your Tweet is My Command

My friend Phil Carter has written an excellent piece for Slate, pointing out the institutional dangers of disregarding President Trump’s recent series of tweets that…

Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (June 23-June 30)

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…

Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (June 2-June 9)

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…

Norms Watch: Tracking the Erosion of Democratic Traditions (Feb. 17-24)

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…
Protestors at Standing Rock Indian Reservation stand in the water protesting the Dakota Access pipeline. Police stand across from them blocking them from moving.

Investigating Surveillance Around Standing Rock

An anonymous Facebook plea recently went viral, asking people to check in to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to thwart police surveillance of the Dakota Access pipeline protesters.…

#RemoveBannon

Trump’s win is mobilizing thousands of citizens around the country to take to the streets under an “anti-Trump” banner. At this nascent stage that banner obscures divergent…
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Bye-Bye Birdie: reddit’s Warrant Canary Disappears

Sometimes, saying nothing says quite a lot. At the end of January 2015, the online bulletin board reddit issued a “transparency report” that informed its users, and the broader…
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