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February 13, 2013 8:00 AM A Bigger Drones Club?

Former Office of Legal Counsel head and Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith adds a useful wrinkle to the drone debate in his discussion of House Intelligence chair Mike Rogers’s appearance on Face the Nation this weekend. On the face of...

By Andrew Rudalevige

February 12, 2013 11:13 AM Come Clean on Drones

The rule of law is the moral underpinning of U.S. foreign policy. President Barack Obama must now reaffirm that principle. This task became all the more urgent with the disclosure last week of a secret document that provides the Justice...

By Jonathan Alter

February 11, 2013 11:23 AM Does Nuclear Superiority Matter?

The New York Times reports this morning that President Obama wants to renew his efforts to cut the U.S. nuclear arms arsenal. He is not proposing unilateral cuts. Yet, any cooperative agreement with Russia would result in a reduction of...

By Erik Voeten

February 07, 2013 11:32 AM Drone Links

John Brennan’s confirmation hearing started, complete with early protesters being ejected from the hearing room, this afternoon. The protesters, of course, are a physical manifestation of the explosion in the scholarly blogosphere with regards to the release of the Obama...

By Andrew Rudalevige

January 10, 2013 10:54 AM A Drone War Is Still a War

The most famous painting of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica,” commemorates the bombing of the small Spanish town on April 26, 1937, by the German air force, in support of General Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish Civil War....

By Michael Kinsley