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Politicians threatening to build extravagant walls as a means to prevent refugees from entering the country are not exclusive to the likes of Donald Trump in the United States. Last week British Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill announced that the...

Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TORTURE ORDER “I’m sure it’s not pleasant” but waterboarding is “not torture,” the President...

by Theodoric Meyer Back in 2011, we rounded up some of the best stories about the 112th Congress, the least productive in decades. Since then, things seem to have gotten even worse. The 113th Congress is just three weeks old, and 82 percent of Americans...

For the last two decades, the rules of political reporting have been blown up. And I’ve cheered at every step along the way. Not for me the mourning over the dismantling of the old order, all those lamentations about the lost golden era of print newspapers...

Of all the scandals that have shaken Donald Trump’s campaign, who could have imagined that the most damaging might be the thing Trump has bragged about so often for decades? The Republican nominee’s rather lascivious attitude toward women has never...