Law

“We Are Bellingcat” charts the rise of the digital sleuths who have used open-source investigations to foil Russia’s intelligence agencies.

We urgently need a global ethical consensus on how far technological advances can go.

If the government continues to pile up debt without necessary reforms, it will set its economy on the road to ruin.

South Africa’s former president failed to show up at a corruption inquiry. The country’s Constitutional Court is now deciding whether he should be arrested.

As states struggle, organized crime is rising to new prominence.

The response will indicate the future of the country’s fragile detente.

The new administration doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel—it can learn from South Africa’s experience with transitional justice.

Corruption runs rampant in most countries, and that has big impacts on things like health care.

Netanyahu is courting Arab voters in a bid to win the election, curry favor with Biden, save the Abraham Accords, and stay out of prison.

The best way for Biden and Harris to build better partnerships abroad is to get America’s own house in order—and that begins with human rights.

To stop drug traffickers, criminals, and kleptocrats from laundering their loot, the United States and EU must join forces.

The crisis at the U.S. Capitol shows that Americans lack a shared understanding of their political past and present. Transitional justice can help.

History shows that holding former leaders to account pays off—if it’s done in the right way.

Almost one year in, an ambitious set of norms has had mixed results.

Biden’s nuclear weapons policies will likely maintain a bipartisan status quo.

If the U.S. president-elect is serious about restoring the rule of law and democracy, he needs to first tackle the global menace of graft.

Latin American criminal gangs have embraced social media and messaging platforms to spread narco culture and sell drugs.

Threats, violence, and clampdowns have failed. Can decriminalization work?

Missiles remotely fired with the assistance of a U.S. base on German soil killed my family in Yemen, but neither German nor U.S. courts are willing to hold anyone accountable.