In the wake of the SolarWinds cyberattack, President-elect Biden has called for a more offensive cyber strategy. But given the unknowns about the attack and the Trump administration’s failed “Defend Forward” approach, Biden should consider a “mutual restr ...

Ten Republicans voted to impeach the president this time - but most in the party came to his defence. ...

The Trump administration’s decision last August to allow employers to defer the Social Security payroll taxes seems to have done very little to stimulate the economy. Very few private employers participated in the deferral, and it has burdened the federal ...

Read time: 10 mins“The president has not conceded — the president said he has got us,” I heard a voice blare out over a loudspeaker as I walked toward the Louisiana State Capitol building in Baton Rouge at a “Stop the Steal” rally on January 9. Once there ...

Donald Trump made the decision days before Joe Biden, who wants friendlier US-Cuban ties, takes office. ...

Understanding the role that the constitutional guarantee of free speech does — and does not — play is an essential prerequisite to any meaningful conversation about online speech and content moderation. The post Hawley, Trump, and the First Amendment appe ...

On January 8 Twitter took the unprecedented decision to suspend US President Donald Trump’s account. It came after other social media giants went after Trump and his supporters, including conspiracy […] ...

Read time: 7 minsProminent climate science deniers moved rapidly to spread false and misleading conspiracy theories online during and after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters this week. Some climate deniers, including some with ties to the ...

Brian Sicknick died after sustaining injuries during the pro-Trump violence at the US Capitol. ...

The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building. ...

The Trump administration issued a proposed regulation last June that would have undermined that longstanding policy by imposing numerous sweeping restrictions on the availability of asylum. I specifically called attention to a provision of the proposed re ...

The year 2020 was unprecedented in many ways. Just three days into the year, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the assassination of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force (IRGC-QF) commander Qasem Soleimani. That news was soon eclipsed by the worl ...

Read time: 4 minsBy Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US. “The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge faces its biggest threat yet.” That's the warning issued by the National Audubon Society on Tuesday — a d ...

A last-minute rulemaking being hustled out at the end of the Trump administration would regulate cryptocurrency more heavily and detrimentally than any other form of value transfer. The post Questions about special regulation of cryptocurrency service pro ...

Four American contractors were jailed over the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. ...

Read time: 10 minsBy Tara Lohan, The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revelator. In the aftermath of the November 3 election, President Donald Trump has tried every trick in the book to avoid facing the reality of his loss. A barrage of lawsuits accomp ...

The army general apologises to states who will get fewer Pfizer doses than they were expecting. ...

Victor Gevers was acting ethically when he guessed the president's password, "MAGA2020!", police say. ...

Biden may have sympathies for the Kurdish cause, but as US president, he will not always act in the Kurdish interest. Many Kurds across the Middle East welcomed Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump in the recent elections in the United States. The former ...