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Drone Strikes
October 27, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Rand Paul Torches Trump’s “Extrajudicial Killings” in Caribbean Sea
The Republican senator compared Donald Trump to dictators.
October 7, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Cognitive Decline? Trump Goes on Bizarre Rant About “Water Drugs”
Donald Trump bragged about his seemingly extrajudicial attacks.
September 17, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
JD Vance Makes Crass Joke About (Potentially Illegal) Boat Strikes
JD Vance apparently took glee in allegedly extrajudicial killing.
April 8, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump Weighs Bombing Mexico—Because Everything Else Is Going So Well
Donald Trump is considering drone strikes on one of our closest trade partners.
April 2, 2013
Mary Ellen O'Connell
Spy vs. Soldier
The CIA may lose a power it never legally had
February 11, 2013
Jeffrey Rosen
Courting Disaster
A new idea to limit drone strikes could actually legitimize them

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