What are the Legal Issues Surrounding the Use of Depleted Uranium in Syria and Iraq?
Although it received little attention at the time, journalist Samuel Oakford broke the storylast month that the Pentagon has confirmed using weapons containing…
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Atrocities Prevention Experts Report Released with Concrete Recommendations for the Next Administration
I have been honored to serve on a bipartisan Experts Committee on Preventing Mass Violence—convened by a coalition of human rights, religious, humanitarian, and…
Murder (or not) at the Library of Congress?
Making Sense of the Recent Upheaval at the U.S. Copyright Office Over the last week or so, there’s been a lot of speculation, much of it unproductive, concerni…
AT&T’s Plan to Control Media Won’t Let Freedom Ring
During an address to AT&T employees last month in Dallas, CEO Randall Stephenson called on those struggling with the words “Black Lives Matter” to not rebut…
Opinion: How to fix an internet of broken things
The massive distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack that paralyzed much of the web last week focused a bright spotlight on insecurities in the so-called…
Government Assessment of Innovation Shouldn’t Differ for Tech Companies
At the outset, it's not clear to me what Silicon Valley is and isn't — or why that matters. Companies like Google are often contrasted with companies li…
It probably wasn’t Russia who attacked the Internet today. That’s what’s scary.
As users of Twitter and many other services probably know, large parts of the Internet weren’t working Friday, thanks to a hacking attack on the Internet’s infr…
There is a blind spot in AI research
Kate Crawford & Ryan Calo This week, the White House published its report on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) — a product of four workshops held…
How the Chris Hayes book Twilight of the Elites explains Trump's appeal
Chris Hayes’s book Twilight of the Elites came out to respectful reviews and respectable sales in 2012, yet the book’s real moment is right now. Better than any…
Assault With a Deadly Tweet?
Social media has raised tricky questions that judges are beginning to try to answer. It’s been found possible to violate a restraining order by becoming an unwa…
5 and Counting: Russia Vetoes No-Fly-Zone in the Security Council
Over the weekend, Russia exercised its veto—again and unsurprisingly—to block a draft Security Council resolution (S/2016/846) that would have created a no-fly-…
The U.S. has just accused Russia of hacking America’s elections. That’s a very big deal.
Obama administration security officials have formally accused Russia of interfering with the U.S. presidential election. The Director of National Intelligence a…