Publications

On Thursday, May 23rd, a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia handed down a superseding indictment in Criminal No. 1:18-cr-111 (CMH), better known as U.S. v. Julian Paul Assange. The superseding indictment vastly expanded the charges against...

Recently, President Trump announced that he will pardon former Army First Lieutenant Michael Behenna, who was convicted of executing a naked, unarmed prisoner in Iraq in 2008. He has indicated that he might also pardon a Blackwater contractor, Nicholas...

“I’d rather be judged by twelve, than carried by six.” This was muttered to me one day in Iraq by a senior noncommissioned officer who I served with. This NCO was later kicked off the team that I served...

Over the past 30 years there have been many moments when Taiwan-watchers worked themselves into a tizzy worrying about the potential for conflict in the Taiwan Strait. Whether it was Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui describing the relationship between Taipei...

The National Interest The Trump administration is evaluating designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), reviving a 2017 proposal squashed after rightly receiving significant institutional pushback. The designation is back on the table, but little has...

For those who thought that the long-awaited release of the redacted “Report On The Investiga-tion Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election” (the “Mueller Report” or the “Report”) might presage an end to debate over the controversial events...

Since March, a series of massive floods has devastated several regions of Islamic Republic of Iran. Dozens have died, and many more have been displaced after severe damage to their homes. And the damage caused to infrastructure, transportation, telecommunications,...

Yet again, there is a dramatic rise in tension in the Middle East, and, yet again, missiles are at the heart of it. On May 6, the Trump administration announced that it would deploy the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier...

Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller’s 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election revealed insights into Donald Trump’s campaign, uncovered 10 possible instances of obstruction of justice, and provided plenty of material for late-night comedians. The report...

In the waning years of the 20th century, the global triumph of liberal democracy appeared to some of America’s leading thinkers to be, if not exactly imminent, foreordained. After first vanquishing Nazism, Italian fascism, and Japanese militarism in the...