The president's crusade against attorneys whose work offends him, which defies the First Amendment and undermines the right to counsel, has provoked several judicial rebukes.
Former official Brian K. Williams just admitted that he faked a bomb threat during a work meeting. Now he faces up to 10 years in prison.
To make us safer, the feds required standardized ID and one-stop shopping for identity thieves.
Even after the Biden administration realized the most alarming claims were bunk, it didn't publicize the evidence it had.
The pendulum within Trump’s Middle East policy has swung back toward deal making, for now.
Washington is dumping valuable resources—literally—into a Middle Eastern war of choice.
The law was passed 20 years ago, and enforcement finally looms.
Just a quarter of respondents said they favored deporting students for "expressing pro-Palestine views."
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg says the evidence indicates that the government "willfully disobeyed" his order blocking removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
Although the Court lifted an order that temporarily blocked removal of suspected gang members, it unambiguously affirmed their right to judicial review.
For an administration that likes to show off successful assassinations, the Trump team has been surprisingly tight-lipped about the Houthi commanders they targeted.
The defense secretary, who shared information about imminent U.S. air strikes in a manifestly insecure group chat, thought Clinton should be prosecuted for her careless handling of sensitive information.
The U.S. has a real problem with overclassification. But the assertion that details about impending air strikes would not be classified strains credulity.
The White House accidentally leaked military plans in Yemen to a journalist—and demonstrated how unconstitutional U.S. war making has become.
The proposed list of countries for the "Muslim ban" reboot has been leaked. It includes a small Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas.
Forget boots on the ground. Now we’ll have Americans “on the land.”
If Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is serious about reducing military spending, he will need to embrace a narrower understanding of national security.
While the U.S. publicly insisted on an “open door” policy, Zelenskyy says he was privately told that Ukraine couldn’t join NATO.
The Munich Security Conference was supposed to be a foreign policy forum. Instead, the vice president lectured Europeans about democracy.
The push for Russian-Ukrainian peace is about more than Ukraine.
Retaking the canal won’t protect national security.
Extending the deadline gives TikTok a temporary lifeline, but the real issue—government overreach in tech and speech regulation—still needs a congressional fix.
But that doesn't mean he's embracing the doves.
The popular video app restored service in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump promised to postpone a federal ban.
Politicians in both major parties see the People's Republic as an economic and military threat. But the real threat is an isolated China.
With just hours to go before it is set to shut down, many senators and representatives are still posting on the app they claim is too dangerous for the rest of us to use.
The Department of Homeland Security is watching men who are mad they can’t get girlfriends.
It's a disgraceful decision that serves as a perfect epitaph for Biden's political career.
The Committee on Foreign Investment doesn't recommend blocking the merger, and neither should President Joe Biden.
Are New Jerseyans mistaking normal airplanes for mysterious drones?
The ban violates the First and Fifth Amendments. Strike it down.
The wave of drone sightings is sparking sci-fi speculation mixed with war fever.
Turkey is taking advantage of the power vacuum in Syria to crush the Kurdish-led anti-authoritarian uprising. And it's not clear what the U.S. wants.
The Syrian civil war is over, at least for now. But the Biden and Trump administrations both seem keen on shaping the outcome—and U.S. partners are gearing up to invade.
The CIA spent four years trying to overthrow the Syrian government. It failed. But a former leader of Al Qaeda might do it in a few weeks.
Trump's picks for FBI director and Middle East adviser buck his trend of appointing superhawks.
In response to charges that he illegally interfered with the 2020 election and improperly retained presidential records, Trump insisted that he was entitled to do whatever he wanted based on preposterous claims.
The Suez Crisis demonstrated how "peace through strength" can go terribly wrong.
Establishment hawks will be running the State Department and National Security Council, but Trump has peppered in some antiestablishment mavericks too.
Mike Waltz has called for a “credible military option” against Iran, wants to “take the handcuffs off” Ukraine, and regrets ending the "multi-generational war" in Afghanistan.
Michiganders had to choose between a hawkish Democrat with an intelligence background and a hawkish Republican with an intelligence background for Senate.
Campaign finance records reveal what the community at the heart of U.S. national security policy thinks about outside politics.
Drone maker DJI claims the Pentagon has unfairly smeared it as an arm of the Chinese military based on a mix-up of Chinese names.
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