United States (US)

The responsibility for checking contentious policies rests not with the military, but with elected officials, constitutional institutions, and the American people.

A historian examines the United States' historical memory of 9/11 twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Gubernatorial opposition is a powerful and often necessary component of meaningful state pushback against federal overreach.

A series exploring the powers and authorities state and local governments have to check federal overreach and protect democratic norms and individual rights.

Unpacking the Office of Legal Counsel opinion concluding that executive privilege may apply to presidential communications with private advisers.

Over 175 years later, cities’ historic role as hubs of resistance takes on renewed resonance in today’s era of rising authoritarianism in the United States.

Current and former Presidents of the ICC's Assembly of States Parties on the role of the Court in upholding the international legal order.

A former member of the George W. Bush administration’s National Security Council reflects on what the United States got right and wrong in its response to the 9/11 attacks.

States need independent agencies with jurisdiction to enforce their residents’ rights so the valuation of those rights are evenhanded and not subject to political will.

U.S. strikes against suspected drug-trafficking vessels mark an unlawful expansion of military force into what has long been—and should remain—a law enforcement mission.

As a federal-level accountability desert forms, states are reviving "collateral accountability" — damages suits against federal officers who violate constitutional rights.

States parties should use the United States’ bid for support in its fight against the ICC to push back on Washington’s attempt to dismantle the Court.