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Edgar Discusses NSA Surveillance on Diane Rehm Show 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Visiting Fellow Tim Edgar discussed new revelations about the scope of NSA surveillance on the Diane Rehm Show today. Listen to the show.
Dominic Mhiripiri '13.5: On calling Zimbabwe home 8 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
... To be Zimbabwean at home right now is to know that your ordeal will make great fodder for foreign newspapers, but soon, even that will quiet down, and the reality and dreariness and hopelessness o...
Timothy Edgar in the WSJ: Big Transparency for the NSA's Big Data 2 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Visiting Fellow Timothy Edgar, a civil liberties lawyer who has worked both for the ACLU and the Bush and Obama administrations, argues in today's Wall Street Journal for more openness about the legal...
"Privacy is a fundamental human need, a fundamental human right" 29 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
Visiting Fellow Tim Edgar continues to play a prominent role in the public debate that has followed Edward Snowden's leak of classified information about US spying. His expertise framed a front-page P...
Pinheiro to UN: "Bring Syria to a just and lasting peace" 29 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic and adjunct professor at the Institute, addressed a plenary session of the United Nation...
Choices teachers gather for summer institutes 24 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
Nearly 50 high school teachers from around the country have been on campus in recent weeks to take part in two summer institutes hosted by the Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, a program...
Political Unrest and Quest for Stability in Egypt 11 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
Melani Cammett, associate professor of political science and Faculty Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, has recently returned from Lebanon. She spoke about the situation in Egyp...
The Conquest of America by Iraq 11 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
In a Huffington Post piece highly informed by the Institute's Costs of War project, Doug Bandow, a Cato Institute Fellow, maps the timeline of U.S. invasion of Iraq and the war's legacy 10 years on.
There's an App for That 3 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
In late June, Senior Fellow Sue Eckert (above, second from right) and Adjunct Professor of International Studies Thomas Biersteker (above, left) launched the SanctionsApp at the Mission of Switzerland...
On Being Both Academic and Activist 1 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
The half-hour film Sumak Kawsay: the Sarayaku Case opens with Cesar Rodríguez Garavito boarding a single engine plane in Puyo, Ecuador. Rodríguez is slight, his polo shirt untucked. He carries a backp...
