As Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell explains, doing so will simultaneously strengthen the US and weaken a major geopolitical rival. It can also rescue many Chinese from terrible oppression.
Lai's media company covered the Communist government's abuses when other Hong Kong media wouldn't.
By taking records that did not belong to him and refusing to return them, William Barr says, Trump "provoked this whole problem himself."
There's no deep mystery behind why Trump kept boxes of classified documents. He wanted them.
The former president's retention of classified documents looks willful and arguably endangered national security.
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The feds allege the former president was keeping classified documents on America's nuclear program and defense capabilities in his Mar-a-Lago resort.
The recorded comments could be relevant to a charge that the former president willfully mishandled national defense information.
In a federal lawsuit on behalf of legal U.S. residents from China, the ACLU argues that "Florida's New Alien Land Law" is unconstitutional.
That doesn't mean Russia is right. It means we're being honest about how much the U.S. is involved.
Never underestimate officials’ ability to turn embarrassing moments into awful opportunities.
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While escalation is not inevitable, it’s still a risk having any U.S. boots on the ground.
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It would result in shortages, decreases in productivity, and higher production costs affecting millions of American workers and nearly every consumer.
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There’s no vital U.S. interest served by this indefinite advise-and-assist mission in the region.
People panicked in the 1980s that Japan's economic largesse posed a grave threat to American interests. Then the market reined it in.
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Bipartisan efforts to ban the app in America would be a great blow to our economy and our liberty.
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Prosecuting Trump for keeping government records at Mar-a-Lago now seems doomed for political as well as legal reasons.
In both cases, proving criminal intent would be a tall order.
The Real ID Act was passed in 2005. 17 years later, it's worth asking if it's finally time to scrap the law.
The potential crimes that the FBI is investigating do not hinge on the current classification status of the records that the former president kept at Mar-a-Lago.
Even if Trump did declassify those records, the 11th Circuit says, he "has not identified any reason that he is entitled to them."
In any case, that issue does not seem relevant under the statutes that the FBI cited in its search warrant.
The former president's legal team notably did not endorse his claim that he automatically declassified everything he took with him.
"Nuclear weapons issue is a Hoax," says the former president, who insists that nothing at Mar-a-Lago was actually classified.
That failure adds to the evidence that Trump or his representatives obstructed the FBI's investigation.
There are still lingering questions about the former president's criminal liability and the threat posed by the documents he kept.
We still know almost nothing about their contents, which is relevant in assessing the decision to search Mar-a-Lago.
Although U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart is inclined to unseal the document, redactions demanded by the Justice Department could make it hard to understand.
Reinforcing the FBI's suspicions was the whole point of that document, which is likely to remain sealed.
Whatever threat it may have posed, the trove of government documents seized by the FBI does not reflect well on the former president's judgment.
The former president thought his 2016 opponent should go to prison for recklessly endangering national security.
A senator and two congressmen team up to help protect whistleblowers from vindictive prosecution.
If you believe that moving most of our chip production onshore is good for national security, you should labor for regulatory reforms rather than subsidies.
The alarm aroused by the Disinformation Governance Board is understandable given the administration’s broader assault on messages it considers dangerous.
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