List of Law articles
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On this episode of Rational Security, the panel discusses Trump, Sessions, and the deaths of four Americans in Niger. Rational Security on The E.R.: The “How Many Elephants Make a Stampede” Edition
Trump’s GOP critics decide: should they stay or should they go?
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Wynn Resorts Chairman and CEO Steve Wynn speaks at the Global Gaming Expo 2014 at The Venetian Las Vegas on September 30, 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) The Chinese Have Cracked the Code for Communicating With Trump
Stephen Wynn, who has financial interests in China, seems to be doing Beijing’s bidding.
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President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Oct. 7. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) How Far Must Trump ‘Unravel’ Before the 25th Amendment Kicks In?
The constitutional amendment on presidential disabilities could pose a real threat to Trump. But that shouldn't give his opponents solace.
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This week on Rational Security, the panel discusses Trump, Iran, and Russian trolls. Rational Security on The E.R.: The “Decertified” Edition
Trump deems Iran in violation of the “worst deal ever.”
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Chongqing Communist Party Secretary Chen Miner attends the 19th Party Congress in Beijing on Oct. 19. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) Xi Jinping Has Quietly Chosen His Own Successor
Meet Chen Miner, the man who has been getting groomed to run China — without anyone in the West seeming to notice.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Oct. 18. (Jason Connolly/AFP/Getty Images) Jeff Sessions Just Confessed His Negligence on Russia
The attorney general is aware of the threat Moscow poses to American elections — he just hasn’t done anything about it.
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An empty Capitol Hill hearing room on May 3. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images) Searching the Communications of Americans Should Require a Warrant
Congress would be right to reform FISA.
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Policemen escort a handcuffed man on Oct. 12, 2005 in Meishan of Sichuan Province, southwest China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images) China Is Getting Better at Undermining Global Human Rights
It doesn’t help that the Trump administration doesn’t seem to mind.
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(Foreign Policy illustration/Getty Images) A Turf War Is Tearing Apart the Intel Community’s Watchdog Office
Internal scuffling threatens to dismantle the Intelligence Community Inspector General.
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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Oct. 13. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) The Slippery ‘Spirit’ of Nixing the Iran Deal
Obama's JCPOA terms actually give the White House sound legal footing for decertification. But now Trump owns the consequences.
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The U.S. House of Representatives chamber on Dec. 8, 2008. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images) Congress Wants to Tie the Intelligence Community’s Hands for No Reason
Reforming national security law for the sake of reform is never a good idea.
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Marked ballot papers sit in piles at the Twalemishe school polling station in Kamalondo district of Lubumbashi on November 29, 2011. Monitors reported widespread fraud in Democratic Republic of Congo elections and presidential rivals demanded an annulment as votes were counted Tuesday in polling marred by deadly violence. AFP PHOTO / PHIL MOORE (Photo credit should read PHIL MOORE/AFP/Getty Images) How Ballots Are Being Used to Delay the Congolese Election
Elections cost too much, the government says. But the years-long delay is more likely a power grab.
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Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump visits his Scottish golf course, Turnberry, with his children Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump on July 30, 2015 in Ayr, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images) U.S. Losing Legitimacy as Corruption Fighter, Experts Say
Once a shining beacon, the United States now offers an excuse for behaving badly.
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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) America Will Always Lose Russia’s Tit-for-Tat Spy Games
In the asymmetric warfare of espionage, playing fair means Moscow wins.
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Donald Trump speaks at a rally organized by the Tea Party Patriots against the Iran nuclear deal on Sept. 9, 2015. Here’s What Happens if Trump Really Decides to Decertify the Iran Deal
It seems that the ball is now in Congress’s court.