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Foreign Policy
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India Legal
Which Team Is Trump Playing For?
By Kenneth Tiven A shocked international audience—especially Americans across the political spectrum—is asking an uncomfortable question: Whose interests is Donald Trump serving as president of the United States? The question…
Simple Justice
Trump Is Now Actively Sabotaging Ukraine For Putin’s Love
In the past few days, the United States stopped sharing intelligence about Russian attacks with Ukraine. The military throttled StarShield so Ukraine’s drones are directionless. Ukraine has run out of…
India Legal
The MAGA Ship Is Taking On Water
By Kenneth Tiven Most Americans understand that the national mid-term Congressional elections on November 3 will help determine whether the United States remains a citizen-led democracy or moves further towards…
Cleary Foreign Investment and International Trade Watch
U.S. Government Announces Operation Economic Outcast Targeting Iran
By Chase D. Kaniecki, Samuel H. Chang, Alexi T. Stocker, Kerry Mullins
For more insights and analysis from Cleary lawyers on policy and regulatory developments from a legal perspective, visit U.S. Policy & Regulatory Outlook. On August 24, 2026, the U.S. government announced…
Simple Justice
The HISTORIC MEASURES Of A Lost War
He can’t help it. Everything he does is the biggest, greatest, best, worst, ever. If he didn’t talk in absurd superlatives, he wouldn’t be Trump. But this time, he really…
Verfassungsblog
Towards Qualified Majority Voting in EU Foreign Policy
For several years, the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) appeared to have a Hungary problem. More fundamentally, however, it has a Treaty-design problem. Article 31(1) TEU establishes unanimity…
Simple Justice
No Allies On Either Side
Canada hates us. Our former NATO allies no longer trust us. But at least we still have our good, old, 70-year ally in the Pacific, South Korea, providing us with…
Balkinization
Analyzing War Powers: Ways Forward (Part 3)
By stephengriffinbalkin-blogspot-com
Despite the lack of constitutional amendments with respect to war powers, there are two inescapable legal changes that must be kept in mind when analyzing questions of war powers in…
Balkinization
The Iran War and the War Powers Debate (Part 1)
By stephengriffinbalkin-blogspot-com
President Trump’s February decision to go to war with Iran has produced a negative reaction in Congress and inspired another round in the war powers debate among pundits and legal…
Althouse
"Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist… unseats a 15-term incumbent and further propels the insurgent coalition…"
By Ann Althouse
"... that swept a series of congressional contests last week in New York. Ms. Kiros, an immigrant and first-time candidate, was born the year after [Rep. Diana] DeGette, 68, took…