Andrew Lanham is Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.
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Andrew Lanham is Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.
The link between modern policing and the U.S. national security state means they will have to be democratized together.
In an era of military solutionism, can citizens still exercise control over American military force?
Trump's populism, like that of Reagan, can be resisted through grassroots protest.
At the very height of the McCarthy era, he tried to keep alive a free and open debate about American military, economic, and foreign policy.
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