Transparency

The Biden administration's latest war powers report to Congress and letter to the UN Security Council raise questions about the domestic and international legal basis for hostilities…

Providing a meaningful report to Congress - and the American public - on legal and policy frameworks governing the use of force and related national security operations is not…

Overhauling U.S. policies for preventing and responding to civilian harm will require sustained engagement from Congress.

Iran’s missile program is a cause for international concern. Just last month, Iran launched a missile attack on Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region; in January 2020,…

"Neglecting past cases would be a grave mistake that could damage the credibility of an otherwise promising process."

Stronger tools are needed for regulators to identify the true owners of financial holdings.

To counter Russian disinformation operations, western governments should commit more deeply to transparency and openness.

At one-year mark of Biden administration, top experts revisit proposals to restore and promote nonpartisan principles of good government.

"A long step toward the ultimate freedom: the realization that there is no them, there is only us."

"It is simply not credible that the entire investigative report must be withheld in order to protect (as one imagines the claim) sources and methods of intelligence-gathering."

Of the many abuses that sprung from the Patriot Act’s toxic soil, the most pernicious and enduring is the growth of secret laws. The insistence that the government must not only…

The lack of uniform procedures for sealing federal court records has resulted in excessive secrecy that has caused considerable harm.