Unemployment is 5.1%, inflation is low, and near-zero interest rates have proved innocuous, but the Federal Reserve officials will decide Thursday whether to raise interest rates ever so slightly or stand pat, with pundits opining loudly in both directions.
In September 2014 Congress authorized a $500 million program to train and equip (T&E) Syrian rebels to combat ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria. One disheartening headline from yesterday’s SASC hearing is that only "four or five" of the first 54 fighters trained are still in the fight.
Big surprise: the Republican debate at the Reagan Library did not produce a clear winner, or even a single compelling narrative. That’s not really the point when you put 11 candidates on a stage for three hours more than a year before the election.
One of the central questions of the current Republican presidential campaign is when potential candidates will talk about important issues of political economy.
President Obama just said this about Donald Trump’s disparagement of the last seven years: “In the echo chamber that is presidential politics, everything is dark and everything is terrible.”
Before the main event at the Reagan Presidential Library, there was the “kiddie table” debate featuring the four Republican presidential hopefuls who couldn’t meet CNN’s polling criteria for the prime time gathering.
Ben Wittes’ commentary about hybrid conflict asks “what is really new in this idea of hybrid conflict”?, and answers by giving a cyber example that falls at the seams of existing international law. He points out that when government officials do not know how to apply existing law or what laws do apply, they don’t apply anything at all.
This is a very special #NatSec2016 edition of our 5 Questions series. I had a chance to speak with Kiron Skinner, the director of the Institute of Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University and a foreign policy adviser to Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign.
Rarely does a day go by in which some variety of cyber attack is not front-page news. From Ashley Madison and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to Sony, Saudi Aramco, and the Ukraine crisis, cybersecurity is increasingly taking center stage in diverse arenas of geopolitics, international economics, security, and law.
Though some will call us "deniers," the truth is we are merely global warming skeptics. We're not skeptical of climate change, though, because we know the climate has been changing since the beginning and will continue to change throughout time. We've made this point several times.
Regardless of whether you support gay marriage or not, some are wondering if the rule of law derived from the U.S. Constitution only applies in politically correct scenarios.
The rise of Donald Trump has amused and befuddled a wide variety of commentators. One sentiment I could do without, however, is the idea that Trump is Ronald Reagan Reborn.
Constitution Day is observed each year on September 17th to recognize the adoption of the United States Constitution. In honor of the day, Stanford Law School faculty offers their thoughts on the top constitutional issues facing the courts today.
Syrian people, not the United States, must be the ones to decide on the legitimacy of the country's president, Bashar Assad, former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said Wednesday.
It’s Debate Night: GOP presidential hopefuls will gather for the second official debate tonight, hosted by CNN. So far the Republican candidates haven’t found many pressure points in education policy that they can use to get ahead (or push somebody behind), making it a disappointing race so far for education nerds.
