Over the past several days, the Trump administration has taken increasingly drastic steps in response to protest activity and unrest in Los Angeles — including federalizing 4,000 National Guard troops and sending hundreds of Marines, against the objections of California’s state and local leadership. As events unfold on the ground…
On June 2, 2025, the German Bundestag disclosed the level of military support Germany has provided Israel over the past 19 months. The report states that “from October 7, 2023, to May 13, 2025, individual export licenses for the final export of military equipment to Israel with a total value…
Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the past 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: IRAN Israel appears to be preparing to attack Iran, European and U.S. officials say. Israeli officials say the IDF has been on high…
When Russian intelligence officers hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016, they weren’t identified in headlines as Russian intelligence officers. They were called Fancy Bear. When hackers from the People’s Liberation Army were discovered burrowed deep inside U.S. critical infrastructure to launch disruptive attacks in the event of a crisis…
On March 16, President Donald Trump announced that the United States (U.S.) military would conduct a new, more intense air campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. The President’s stated goal was to restore “Freedom of Navigation” in the Red Sea and protect U.S. shipping. On May 6, 52 days later,…
The reshaping of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) is happening with intent—even if it is not always with strategy—and increasingly out in the open. Since President Donald Trump’s return to office, senior intelligence personnel have been removed, clearances revoked, offices reorganized and analytic teams reassigned, and the infrastructure around finished…
On Wednesday afternoon, I am testifying at a Senate spotlight forum titled “Cruel and UnAmerican: The Abuse of Immigrants to Attack our Constitutional Order.” From the executive order purporting to limit the 14th Amendment right to birthright citizenship, to the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to remove Venezuelans to…
We are co-hosting a YouTube Live event (including audience Q&A) on the situation in Los Angeles and the use of the U.S. military. When Thursday June 12, 2025 | 11am ET Where YouTube Live: https://youtube.com/live/M24S3Rcgon0?feature=share Description Over the past several days, the Trump administration has taken increasingly drastic steps in…
From September 2022 to September 2023, at least 500 people were killed by Iranian security forces, tens of thousands were arrested, nine men were executed after sham trials, and thousands of people, including children, were tortured. Their crime: peacefully participating in the Woman, Life, Freedom movement. The protests were galvanized…
On June 7, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum federalizing 2,000 California National Guard troops to quell immigration protests in and around Los Angeles pursuant to an obscure provision in federal law–10 USC §12406–which has not been used since 1970, when President Richard Nixon federalized the Guard to deliver mail…
Authors’ Note: The members of the Fact-Finding Mission were appointed by the President of the UN Human Rights Council; they are not U.N. staff and do not receive a salary for their work. While the UN Human Rights Office provides support in the Fact-Finding Mission, the members serve in their…
Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the past 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: U.S. PROTESTS RESPONSE Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass yesterday imposed a curfew in downtown L.A., in a bid to avert looting and vandalism…
In recent years, the United States has sustained some of the most severe cyber threats in recent history– from the Russian-government directed hack SolarWinds to China’s prepositioning in U.S. critical infrastructure for future sabotage attacks through groups like Volt Typhoon. The Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is responsible for responding to, and…
Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on Saturday night purporting to authorize the federalization and deployment of the National Guard, as well as the deployment of active-duty-armed forces, “at locations where protests against [ICE] functions are occurring or…
Russian forces have used more than a dozen types of antipersonnel mines since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, causing thousands of civilian casualties and contaminating vast tracts of agricultural land. The antipersonnel mines have been emplaced by hand, delivered by rockets, and—as a report from my…
On Jan. 22 , 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration was designating Ansar Allah, the name used by the Houthi Islamist terrorist movement, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Since 2023, in response to Israel’s invasion of Gaza, the Houthis had been conducting terrorist…
Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the past 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: L.A. PROTESTS RESPONSE The Pentagon yesterday mobilized a battalion of 700 Marines and 2,000 additional California National Guard troops in what officials described…
We are thrilled to welcome Danae Askar to the Just Security team as a Legal Editor. Askar comes to us most recently from the Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where she served as an Attorney-Adviser. Prior to that, she was Counsel for a global, pro bono law…
In response to the growing problem of plastic pollution, the United Nations Environment Assembly launched negotiations in 2022 to draft a treaty to “end plastic pollution.” But three years and five rounds of negotiations later, agreement remains elusive. The negotiations were supposed to conclude late last year in Busan, South…
Last month’s argument in Trump v. CASA provided the Supreme Court with its latest confrontation with nationwide injunctions. The underlying case challenges an executive order aimed at eliminating birthright citizenship. But the issue before the Court concerns whether a single federal district court may stop the enforcement of an executive…