Noah Feldman

It’s official: Syria has become a war of all against all. The latest proof is the report that US planes killed somewhere between four and 200 Russian “mercenaries” last week. A few days before that news broke, Israel shot down an Iranian drone that came from Syria and then attacked Iranian…

It’s highly unusual for the FBI director to confront the president publicly -- because technically, the director works for the president. That’s why Christopher Wray generated immediate attention and controversy Wednesday for the bureau’s open statement urging Donald Trump not to release the…

Whether prosecutors and FBI agents are allowed to have political views is a question now of interest on both sides of the political spectrum. Liberals are outraged that President Donald Trump asked Andrew McCabe, then acting director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who he had voted for when…

We have our first confirmed federal Twitter judge, Judge Don Willett of the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. More than 500 legal scholars both young and old, as well as sophisticated practitioners, use Twitter to comment, analyze and argue. From a practical perspective, legal Twitter is…

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson may think his year-end summary of US foreign policy is a tale of success. But the remarkable op-ed article in the New York Times in fact illustrates the opposite: It shows in chapter and verse how the US lacks leverage over many of the critical challenges it faces…

From the standpoint of producing Middle East peace, President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in a speech Wednesday can only be called irrational. It raises the risk of Palestinian violence that could derail peace efforts by his son-in-law Jared Kushner. It…