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[9/21] Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi met with President Obama last week. It[…]

My trip to Gitmo last week to observe the military commission proceedings against 36-year-old Maryland resident Majid Khan was like an[…]

The fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has prompted much retrospective analysis of U.S. counterterrorism policy since September 2001. The[…]

Since Turkmenistan gained independence in 1991, all forms of dissent have completely been repressed. Throughout the 2000s, Turkmenistan’s first president,[…]

Goods made with slave labor are categorically banned from import into the United States, thanks to a new provision in[…]

In the last five months, I’ve observed proceedings in all three of the cases before the military commissions at Guantanamo[…]

On Wednesday September 7, representatives from governments, civil society, and tech gathered to discuss the most pressing issues related to[…]

In early September the White House met its goal of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees. President Obama stated that the United[…]

Amid the contentious debate over the U.S. response to the global refugee crisis, veterans are quickly becoming one of the[…]

On August 3, Secretary Kerry met with foreign ministers of the five Central Asian nations (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)[…]