Senate Appropriations Bill Rejects Trump’s Efforts to Downsize State Department and USAID
Last week, the Senate Committee on Appropriations, chaired by Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), approved a State & Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill for fis…
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Communicating Cyber Intelligence to Non-Technical Customers
This article examines the challenge facing cyber intelligence analysts who have to explain threat information and analysis to non-technical consumers, like exec…
Privacy and the Dark Side of Control
To hear some in industry and government tell it, the answer to our modern privacy dilemma is simple: give users more control. There is seemingly no privacy-rel…
Everything Radiates: Does the Fourth Amendment Regulate Side-Channel Cryptanalysis?
Abstract Encryption shields private information from malicious eavesdroppers. After years of slow adoption, encryption is finally becoming widespread in consum…
A liberal think tank has just pushed out an employee who criticized Google. That’s worrying.
The New York Times reports that the liberal-leaning think tank New America has pushed out scholar Barry Lynn and his team on the foundation’s Open Markets initi…
When Politics Drives Scholarship
The publication of Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains, a history of the “public choice” economist James Buchanan and his impact on American politics, has led t…
Key U.S. Foreign Policy Positions—including Ambassador for War Crimes—Saved from Getting Axed
Just Security recently broke the story that the State Department was considering shuttering or downgrading certain functional offices and Senate-confirmed ambas…
An Update of the Israel-Palestine-International Criminal Court Timeline
A lot has happened before the International Criminal Court since we last reported on the Palestine and related situations. The timeline below picks up where my…
Federal Court: US Can Extradite Ex-El Salvador Official to Spain for Jesuits Massacre
On Monday, U.S. federal judge Terrence Boyle ruled that Inocente Orlando Montano Morales (Montano)—who headed El Salvador’s National Police as Vice Minister for…
What We Learn From Government Speech About Hate
The bombing of a mosque and community center in suburban Minneapolis 10 days ago and the horrific events in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend are just the…
California Court of Appeal Overturns Dangerous Right of Publicity Ruling
Almost all posts on social media include depictions of real people. And most social media websites include advertising. Does this combination mean that nearly e…
North Korea just called Trump’s bluff. So what happens now?
Yesterday, President Trump took a break from his 17-day vacation to threaten North Korea. His words: North Korea best not make any more threats to the United S…