A Dangerous Nexus: Terrorism, Crime, and Corruption
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Sultan of Turkey: Erdogan’s Shameless Power Play
Co-authored by Gabriel Mitchell A row erupted within Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on March 21, after the deputy prime minister brazenly condemned Pr...
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Obama’s Security Council Gambit
Co-authored by Lee A. Casey The recent open letter by 47 Republican Senators, putting Iran on notice that the US Constitution fundamentally limits the President’s ability...
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Academic Dishonors
Remember when colleges prided themselves on the diligence and depth of their research? Frederick Lawrence, president of Brandeis University, apparently does not. He offered an honorary degr...
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Why Alleged Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, If Convicted, Deserves to Die
It began as an action movie, transformed into a slasher flick, and ended as a courtroom procedural. The criminal protagonists were despicable — though not in equal measure. On July...
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Pakistani Taliban Threaten Former President Musharraf with ‘Death Squad’
A Pakistani jihadist who escaped from prison during a Taliban jailbreak last spring appeared in a video in which he threatened to assassinate Pervez Musharraf, the former President of Pakistan wh...
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Das Gift
How Angela Merkel's bold plan to save Europe may have just saved Barack Obama.
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Good Friends are Hard to Find: Why the US Should Support Mithal Alusi and Kurdistan
I know. Foreign policy has been largely an afterthought in the presidential campaign. Iraq, for all intents and purposes, is off the radar screen entirely -- except as a Democratic talking point,...
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Lose LOST
The Law of the Sea Treaty requires surrendering sovereignty and paying taxes to international bureaucrats and dictators.
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The Long, Hard, Surreal Struggle for Women’s Rights in Pakistan
On Saturday night, I appeared as a panelist at the “Message of Peace: Countering Islamophobia&rd...
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A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos...
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The Supreme Court Enters the Surveillance Debate
Since 2004, the Supreme Court’s transnational progressive bloc has forged a novel — and, in my view, a damaging — judicial oversight role in American national security. The whim...
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Israel’s Gay Rights Record Touted in NY
The alumni association of Birthright Israel placed a mural in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood last week, which juxtaposed the rights of gays in Israel with criminal penalties for gays...
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Tea Party Should Oppose Latest Terrorist Bill of Rights
The reckless crew is at it again. Libertarian extremists, who purport to be the face of the tea party movement, and their pals on the Lawyer Left, whose obsession is more rights for mass...
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Virginia Detainee Law is Dangerously Unconstitutional
Co-authored by Charles D. Stimson The United States has just lost a key ally in the fight against al-Qaeda terrorists: the residents of Virginia, and state employees in par...
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Are Sanctions Working?
If the purpose is to penalize Iran’s rulers for their crimes and discourage civilized people from buying blood oil, yes.
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The Haqqani Test
If Pakistan fails it, there must be consequences.
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Candidates and Combatants
Monday night’s debate featured an exchange between Mitt Romney a...
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The Real Rules of Detention
Earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) responded...
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A Terrorist Released
Binyam Mohamed is ...