The year is 1979. A young senator from Delaware walks into the Kremlin to discuss nuclear arms control amid the Cold War. He would go on to be an outspoken advocate for nuclear nonproliferation and arms control for most of his long career. Fast forwa...
Automaking was once the crown jewel of the US economy. While East Asian companies started manufacturing cheaper products in the 1980s, a long history of Western dominance, technological edge, and protectionist policies limited Asian automaking expans...
Since taking office in 2019, Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s charismatic young autocratic leader, has transformed El Salvador from the world’s murder capital into the safest country in Latin America. Despite its efficacy, Bukele’s anti-gang crackdo...
Abu Anas al-Liby, U.S. Department of State Photo, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain On Saturday evening, I found myself tailgating at Brown Stadium, lamenting aloud how much it would suck to go to URI. At some point, I looked down at my phone and saw ...
Abu Anas al-Liby, U.S. Department of State Photo, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain On Saturday evening, I found myself tailgating at Brown Stadium, lamenting aloud how much it would suck to go to URI. At some point, I looked down at my phone and saw ...
Let us turn to the legal questions posed by another of this summer’s intelligence disclosures, concerning data collection pursuant to Section 702 (“§702”) of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. §702, which authorizes the U.S. government to targe...
Let us turn to the legal questions posed by another of this summer’s intelligence disclosures, concerning data collection pursuant to Section 702 (“§702”) of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. §702, which authorizes the U.S. government to targe...
Earlier this year, The New Yorker’s George Packer wrote a brilliant piece about Silicon Valley’s slow entrance to politics. This was bound to happen, as any major industry eventually begins to lobby for favorable regulation. Up until now, the ris...
Earlier this year, The New Yorker’s George Packer wrote a brilliant piece about Silicon Valley’s slow entrance to politics. This was bound to happen, as any major industry eventually begins to lobby for favorable regulation. Up until now, the ris...
Last Tuesday, President Obama gave a national address from the East Room on the international crisis in Syria – taking, in the words of Jon Stewart, that long stroll down “I Killed bin Laden Lane.” Though the address was originally scheduled to...
Last Tuesday, President Obama gave a national address from the East Room on the international crisis in Syria – taking, in the words of Jon Stewart, that long stroll down “I Killed bin Laden Lane.” Though the address was originally scheduled to...
It appears we have had two wartime technology questions in the last few months. Both have left me with the same question: Why does the manner in which someone is killed change the legal ramifications of the killing? First, we had Senator Paul’s fil...
It appears we have had two wartime technology questions in the last few months. Both have left me with the same question: Why does the manner in which someone is killed change the legal ramifications of the killing? First, we had Senator Paul’s fil...
The truth shall set you free, as the saying goes. As far as whistleblowing in America is concerned, however, the truth seems to be doing rather the opposite — it’s locking an increasing number of people up. Along with the furor surrounding Edwa...
The truth shall set you free, as the saying goes. As far as whistleblowing in America is concerned, however, the truth seems to be doing rather the opposite — it’s locking an increasing number of people up. Along with the furor surrounding Edwa...
About a month ago, on May 23, President Obama spoke at the National Defense University, addressing the nation for the first time in his second term on the topic of U.S. drone and counterterror policy. Boldly defining his own legacy as a wartime presi...
About a month ago, on May 23, President Obama spoke at the National Defense University, addressing the nation for the first time in his second term on the topic of U.S. drone and counterterror policy. Boldly defining his own legacy as a wartime presi...
On May 29th, in several cities across Puerto Rico, thousands of people joined in demanding freedom for Oscar López Rivera – a Puerto Rican nationalist, independence activist and America’s longest-held political prisoner. The event, titled 32...
On May 29th, in several cities across Puerto Rico, thousands of people joined in demanding freedom for Oscar López Rivera – a Puerto Rican nationalist, independence activist and America’s longest-held political prisoner. The event, titled 32...
In 2000 Chalmers Johnson, a professor of history at UC San Diego, famously co-opted the CIA term “blowback” in order to explain the negative consequences of America’s long tradition of foreign interventionism. “World politics in the twenty-f...
In 2000 Chalmers Johnson, a professor of history at UC San Diego, famously co-opted the CIA term “blowback” in order to explain the negative consequences of America’s long tradition of foreign interventionism. “World politics in the twenty-f...
“Gentlemen do not read others’ mail.” –Henry L. Stimson. “One might expect Europeans to protest loudly — if only to appease their offended publics — but then revert to type and do little concrete in response. After all, America&...
“Gentlemen do not read others’ mail.” –Henry L. Stimson. “One might expect Europeans to protest loudly — if only to appease their offended publics — but then revert to type and do little concrete in response. After all, America&...
Forgetting the Orwellian aspects of the NSA surveillance program (and you shouldn’t), this story has been pretty fun. Some have labeled NSA leaker Edward Snowden a hero, while House Speaker John Boehner called him a traitor. Rand Paul announ...
Forgetting the Orwellian aspects of the NSA surveillance program (and you shouldn’t), this story has been pretty fun. Some have labeled NSA leaker Edward Snowden a hero, while House Speaker John Boehner called him a traitor. Rand Paul announ...
The media likes narratives, probably because the public likes narratives. The media has been trying to shoehorn the three ongoing scandals at the White House – Benghazi, the IRS, and the Associated Press subpoenas – into a coherent story about th...
The media likes narratives, probably because the public likes narratives. The media has been trying to shoehorn the three ongoing scandals at the White House – Benghazi, the IRS, and the Associated Press subpoenas – into a coherent story about th...