Jack Goldsmith

The large-scale military strikes the United States has directed at the Houthis, an Iran-backed militant group in Yemen that has disrupted shipping in the Red…

If the House follows through on this week’s committee recommendation and impeaches Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, it will be the first…

Last week, former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger passed away. To assess his legacy, Jack Goldsmith sat down with Graham Allison,…

It is commonplace for American leaders to describe their fiercest foreign adversaries as irrational, crazy, delusional, or illogical. In their new book, “How States Think:…

If he is elected to a second term, President Biden pledged that he will go to Congress to start any major war but said he…

Liberalism today is under attack, as it often has been. Samuel Moyn, the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, believes that…

There is no more consequential technological development in recent years than widely accessible artificial intelligence. And there are few more consequential contemporary figures in the…

An op-ed by Jack Goldsmith: It may be satisfying now to see the special counsel Jack Smith indict Donald Trump for his reprehensible and possibly…

Jonathan Goodman, the magistrate judge assigned to handle Donald J. Trump’s arraignment, did something of a double take during the proceeding on Tuesday, when the…

Harvard University law professor Jack Goldsmith thinks President Joe Biden should “stop” commenting about ongoing probes in the wake of the tax investigation against his…

As the first-ever indictment of a former U.S. president unfolds, much is riding on one man: Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. Cohen,…

For the first time in American history, a former president of the United States has been indicted on criminal charges. It is worth pausing to…

When Joseph R. Biden Jr. was running for the White House in 2019, he sharply criticized the Justice Department’s longstanding view that presidents who commit…

In an inaugural University-wide event, Faith & Veritas ’23 will bring together Harvard’s Christian alumni, faculty, and students March 30-April 2 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Faith…

Did former President Donald J. Trump consume detailed information about foreign countries while in office? How extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines…

An op-ed by Jack Goldsmith: Attorney General Merrick Garland’s symmetrical appointments of special counsels to investigate the classified documents imbroglios of President Biden and former…

Ralph Bunche, one of the most prominent Black Americans of the 20th century, was a legendary diplomat, who from his perch at the United Nations…

Justice Department lawyers have secretly worked under presidents of both parties to narrowly interpret the reach of a law passed at the end of the…