The Global Coalition Against Daesh met in Riyadh this week faced with a singular problem. What to do with the extraordinary prisons and camps in Northeast Syria whose existence
they have supported and sustained for seven years? The answer, in a joint statement from the governments of the United States and Saudi Arabia, shows signs of strain, [...]
China launched a new phase in its escalating diplomatic crisis with Japan in early January over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s statements on Taiwan late last year.
China’s Ministry of Commerce invoked its Export Control Law to implement a ban on “dual-use” exports for military end-uses and signaled more restrictive licensing [...]
Over the past decade, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has edged closer than ever to the frontlines of armed conflict. The ICJ’s provisional-measures orders in Ukraine
v. Russia (2022), Armenia v. Azerbaijan (2023), and South Africa v. Israel (2024) were all issued while hostilities were ongoing. [...]
Last July, government officials embraced a brazen new interpretation of immigration law. Under this new interpretation, a statute designed to govern detention at the border
would also mandate the detention of any noncitizen inside the country who entered without inspection without any possibility of bond, regardless of how long they [...]
We expose the anatomy of the governmental machinery that the Department of Homeland Security uses to (1) conduct immigration arrests on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul,
(2) transport individuals in unmarked vehicles with masked agents to the Whipple Federal Building at Fort Snelling, (3) detain individuals in grossly inhumane conditions [...]
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Trump told Axios yesterday that he is considering sending a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East to prepare for military action if negotiations [...]
On Monday, Ghislaine Maxwell asserted her constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment to decline to answer Congress’ questions about what she knows about sexual abuse
by herself, Jeffrey Epstein, and others. But that need not be the end of the road. [...]
Republicans and Democrats in the U.S. Congress are in intense negotiations over what conditions might be imposed on the Department of Homeland Security as part of the approval
process for its fiscal 2026 budget, after they separated DHS from other appropriations legislation to end a brief partial government shutdown. That agreement, which [...]
On Jan. 22, President Donald Trump issued executive order 14375, extending privileges and immunities under U.S. law to the Board of Peace, a new international organization,
conceived of and promoted by his administration to undertake peace-building operations in Gaza and potentially other areas of the globe experiencing conflict. [...]
Trump’s threats to forcibly take control of Greenland brought to the headlines the alarming notion of the United States seeking new territories, from a European ally. But
the United States already faces pressing issues of territorial control and governance. [...]
