Law

The Case for Big Brother

A little government monitoring can be a good thing.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 4, 2013

Vote M for Murder

In Kenya, politics is simply the continuation of war, by other means.

BY JAMES VERINI | FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The New Westphalian Web

The future of the Internet may lie in the past. And that's not a good thing.

BY KATHERINE MAHER | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Listening In

New revelations at Guantánamo show the walls have ears, and justice is being made a mockery.

BY LAURA PITTER | FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Ice Removal

How easy is it to fence $50 million worth of stolen diamonds?

BY SCOTT ANDREW SELBY | FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Hate Obama's Drone War?

Blame the bleeding-heart human rights crusaders.

BY ROSA BROOKS | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Inside the Islamic Emirate of Timbuktu

An exclusive trove of al Qaeda documents found in this fabled city shows a theocracy in the making in Mali.

BY HARALD DOORNBOS, JENAN MOUSSA | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Laying Down the Law

Why Obama's targeted killing is better than Bush's torture.

BY DAVID COLE | FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Obama's Legal Netherworld

The president isn't claiming too much power to kill Americans who join al Qaeda -- but too little.

BY JOHN YOO, ROBERT DELAHUNTY | FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Revolution, Interrupted

There's a reason Egyptians keep taking to the streets: The Muslim Brotherhood has proved to be little more than the old Mubarak clique with beards.

BY HANI SHUKRALLAH | FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Martyrs of the Revolution

If history is any guide, today’s assassination in Tunisia could set off a dangerous revolutionary dynamic.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Death by Loophole

Obama's legal rationale for whacking Americans is so broad you could fly a drone through it.

BY ROSA BROOKS | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Think Again: Immigration

After Republicans' election-year drubbing, the United States has an historic opportunity to fix its broken immigration system. And the arguments against reform simply don't hold up anymore.

BY SHANNON O’NEIL | JANUARY 29, 2013

Investigate This

The U.N. will pry America's drones out of our cold, dead hands.

BY MICAH ZENKO | JANUARY 29, 2013

Rainbow Coalition

A gay rights revolution is sweeping across the Americas. It's time for Washington to catch up.

BY J. LESTER FEDER | JANUARY 24, 2013

Flyover Country

Why the United States can't just drone Algeria.

BY MICAH ZENKO | JANUARY 22, 2013

What I Learned from Gérard Depardieu

The French actor's case is the exception that proves the rule: Citizenship still matters.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 16, 2013

Zero Dark Torture

Viewers and critics have been shocked by Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of enhanced interrogation techniques. But, if anything, the film goes way too easy on the CIA.

BY LAURA PITTER | JANUARY 11, 2013

Paris Murder Mystery

Who's behind the assassination of three Kurdish women in the heart of the French capital?

BY ERIC PAPE | JANUARY 11, 2013

The New Monopolies

Have America's big Internet companies become too powerful?

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | JANUARY 7, 2013

The Year in Unfreedom

An encouraging number of the world's people voted in 2012. But voting does not a democracy make.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 4, 2013

Rough Cut

Nearly all the world's diamonds -- legal or not -- pass through this one Indian city.

BY JASON MIKLIAN | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Midlife Crisis of Bangladesh

Bangladeshis want a reckoning with their bloody past. But they can do it without partisanship?

BY JOSEPH ALLCHIN | DECEMBER 21, 2012

Pirates of the Guinean

How West Africa is replacing Somalia as the new pirate lair.

BY THIERRY VIRCOULON | DECEMBER 20, 2012

America’s Exceptional Gun Culture

Four reminders about just how entrenched guns are in American society.

BY ELIAS GROLL | DECEMBER 19, 2012

The Anti-Godfather

How a mayor set out to save a Sicilian city from neglect and Mafia influence.

BY LAURA BACON, RUSHDA MAJEED | DECEMBER 10, 2012

Clash of the Balance Sheets

The most important showdown between China and the United States isn't happening in the Pacific. It's happening at the SEC.

BY PATRICK CHOVANEC | DECEMBER 10, 2012

Off with Their Heads

Has Vladimir Putin lost control of his “corruption crackdown”?

BY SIMON SHUSTER | DECEMBER 5, 2012

Is it Legal for the Military to Patrol American Networks?

Posse Comitatus meets the 21st century.

BY TIM MAURER | DECEMBER 5, 2012

Stop Talking About Civil Society

Using terms like "civil society" is a distraction from the real problems in authoritarian countries. 

BY SARAH KENDZIOR | DECEMBER 3, 2012