Two weeks ago, as the West was just beginning to go up in smoke, I recorded a wildfire-101 video for my students and interested colleagues. My goal was to explain, in about

fifteen minutes, why we're seeing so much fire... [...]

On Friday, the Hartford Courant reported that Assistant United States Attorney Nora Dannehy had resigned in protest from the Department of Justice’s inquiry into the origins

of the Russia probe. An experienced, by-the-book prosecutor, her presence on the team was a salve to institutionalists who worried that Attorney General William Barr [...]

Reflecting on the Anniversary of 9/11 I. Toward a New Approach to National and Human Security Series @jwellsdixon) @katherga1 @danmahanty) KateKizer II. The Forever War and

Counterterrorism [...]

UPDATE: The judgment is available here (in Spanish). A Spanish court has convicted Colonel Inocente Orlando Montano for his role in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests,

their housekeeper, and her daughter. Montano, who was Vice-Minister for Public Security at the time, was sentenced for 26 years’ imprisonment for each of the murders [...]

Editor’s note: This piece is part of a four-part series marking the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. All of the posts can be found here.  For

nearly 20 years, successive U.S. administrations have adopted a costly war-based approach to national security and counterterrorism policy that has no clear endgame [...]

Editor’s note: This piece is part of a four-part series marking the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. All of the posts can be found here.  In

the Spring of 2013, then Vice-President Joe Biden had an important exchange with the late Senator John McCain regarding the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program and [...]

Editor’s note: This piece is part of a four-part series marking the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. All of the posts can be found here.  In

the nearly two decades since the September 11th terrorist attacks,  U.S. leaders have advanced a war-based approach to national and human security that has resulted [...]

Editor’s note: This piece is part of a four-part series marking the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. All of the posts can be found here.  On

January 11, 2021, the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will enter its 20th year. [...]

Editor’s note: This piece introduces a four-part series marking the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The posts can be found here, here, here,

and here.  [...]

For nearly two decades, this day has been a solemn one, dedicated to remembering those we lost in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It’s a day to remember the

sense of national unity we felt around a common purpose after 9/11. During my years in government, it was a day when we gathered to remember how 9/11 drew so many [...]