Recapping the NATO Summit
Today, July 12, the leaders of NATO member countries are wrapping up a summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. The meeting opened as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended his opposition to NATO membersh...
12 Heinä 202321min
Free Speech and Content Moderation in Missouri v. Biden
On July 4th a federal judge restricted the Biden administration from contacting social media companies about their content moderation policies. The court found that federal agencies, including the Dep...
8 Heinä 202318min
Climate Change and Disability Rights
From massive floods, to sweeping hurricanes, to raging wildfires, climate disasters seem constant. Last November, the United Nation’s climate conference, COP 27, grabbed global headlines when countrie...
5 Heinä 202318min
The Proud Boys’ Attack on Pride
As the investigations and trials related to the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol continue, convictions and sentences have piled up. More than half of those arrested have pleaded guilty, and amon...
23 Kesä 202327min
An Insider View of Trump's Second Indictment
On Friday, June 9, a federal court in Florida unsealed an indictment charging former President Donald Trump with willfully retaining national defense information, refusing to return it, and obstructin...
10 Kesä 202327min
The Classification Process Declassified
From Donald Trump to Joe Biden, presidents have made a lot of news for keeping classified documents in their homes and offices. Presidential classification and declassification is a mysterious process...
2 Kesä 202320min
FISA Section 702 Reauthorization
This year, a key U.S. national security law is set to expire. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has many moving parts, but the gist is that it allows the government to collect t...
17 Touko 202337min
A New Era for U.S. Asylum?
This week a U.S. public health measure known as Title 42 came to an end. The U.S. is supposed to allow people fleeing persecution to seek asylum. But Title 42 allowed the Department of Homeland Securi...
12 Touko 202333min
