Executive & Military

New Atrocities Prevention & Response Legislation Introduced

by Beth Van Schaack

May 30th, 2017

Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (May 19-26)

by Kate Brannen

May 26th, 2017

Glowing Orbs and Glimmers of Hope: Trump’s baby steps to countering violent extremism

by Luke Hartig

May 26th, 2017

Can Flynn Assert a Fifth Amendment Privilege to Withhold Documents?

by Alex Whiting

May 24th, 2017

The Drip, Drip of Obstruction News

by Alex Whiting

May 23rd, 2017

A Proposal for Space, Not Time, to Negotiate Peace in the Middle East

by David Goodstone

May 23rd, 2017

Trump’s Disclosure Did Not Break the Law

by Morton H. Halperin

May 23rd, 2017

Politicians Keep Buying Kris Kobach’s Ideas Despite Track Record of Failure

by Cecillia Wang

May 22nd, 2017

What Lincoln Thought of “America First”

by Sidney Blumenthal

May 22nd, 2017

Tillerson’s Degradation of Human Rights Mustn’t–and Can’t Yet–be Executive Branch Policy

by Michael Posner

May 22nd, 2017

Jared Kushner, the Arms Deal, and Alleged Saudi War Crimes

by Ryan Goodman

May 20th, 2017

A Few Good Generals: The Dangers of Serving in the Trump Administration

by Benjamin Haas and Bishop Garrison

May 19th, 2017

Norms Watch: Tracking the Erosion of Democratic Traditions (May 12-19)

by Jay Shooster

May 19th, 2017

The U.S. Strike against Pro-Assad Forces and the 2001 AUMF

by Monica Hakimi

May 19th, 2017

U.S. Strike in Syria: The (Non) Legal Issues and Lingering Questions

by Jennifer Daskal

May 18th, 2017

Comey’s Subtle Hints About What’s Going on Behind the Scenes

by Faiza Patel

May 18th, 2017

So You Want to Share Intelligence with Russia … There Are Less Risky Ways to Do It

by Kate Brannen

May 18th, 2017

The Impeachment Clause and Two Types of “Bribery”

by Philip Bobbitt

May 17th, 2017

The Downward Spiral

by Jennifer Daskal

May 17th, 2017

Why Trump’s Disclosure to Russia (and Urging Comey to Drop the Flynn Investigation, and Various Other Actions) Could Be Unlawful

by Marty Lederman and David Pozen

May 17th, 2017

Assessing the Damage of the President’s Intelligence Sharing with Russia

by Rolf Mowatt-Larssen

May 17th, 2017

A Prosecutor’s View: The Evidence of Trump’s Obstruction is Now Compelling

by Alex Whiting

May 17th, 2017

Don’t Be So Quick to Call Those Disclosures “Legal”

by Elizabeth Goitein

May 17th, 2017

The Comey Memorandum and the Take Care Clause

by Andy Wright

May 17th, 2017

The Flagrant Foul in Trump’s Disclosure of Classified Info to Russia: The Missing Interagency Process

by Ryan Goodman

May 16th, 2017

Five Takeaways from Gen. H.R. McMaster Press Briefing

by Ryan Goodman

May 16th, 2017

Just How Sensitive Was the Information Trump Reportedly Revealed to the Russians?

by Jonathan Lee

May 16th, 2017

National Security-Related Congressional Hearings, May 15-19

by Just Security

May 15th, 2017

The Trump Administration’s Early (Appropriate) Focus on Botnets

by Zachary Goldman

May 15th, 2017

UAE, a Key US Partner in Yemen, Implicated in Detainee Abuse

by Ryan Goodman and Alex Moorehead

May 15th, 2017

Never Waste A Good Crisis, FBI Edition

by Emily Berman

May 15th, 2017

A Misplaced Focus on “Collusion”

by Julian Sanchez

May 12th, 2017