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January 11, 2017

Human Rights
Predictive Policing Is Not as Predictive As You Think

David O’Connor is an intern for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations.  The problem of policing has always been that it’s after-the-fact. If law enforcement o…

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October 20, 2016

Conflict Prevention
Trump and the Makings of a Constitutional Crisis

During yesterday’s third and (mercifully) final presidential debate, Republican candidate Donald Trump stated explicitly what he has hinted at for months: he will not agree ahead of time to accept th…

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September 6, 2016

Iran
Obama: See No Evil, See No Enemies

Two almost simultaneous events in recent days have shed even more light on the Obama administration’s treatment of America’s enemies. In Cuba, a Marxist, pro-Russian, anti-American tyranny, the ad…

August 11, 2016

Digital Policy
The Internet’s Inflection Point

Michael Chertoff is the former secretary of homeland security and current chairman of the Chertoff Group.  History has inflection points; points where the deliberate policy choices of individuals, o…

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June 27, 2016

Puerto Rico Needs Tools to Help It Carry Out A Necessary Restructuring

Full disclosure: I worked on Puerto Rico while at the U.S. Treasury in 2015. All views here are my own. The Hill has published my column on PROMESA (the bill that sets out a framework for fiscal ove…