Harry Blain
Harry Blain is a PhD student at the City University of New York majoring in International Relations.
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Views Friday, April 10, 2020 Why Did Our Permanent Emergency Government Fail to Face the Emergency? Between 1978 and 2018, American presidents declared 58 national emergencies . Their targets ranged from “Transactions with Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process” and “Transactions with Significant Narcotics Traffickers” to “the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels with... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 10, 2020 We Need More Than the Relatively Useless War Powers Resolutions Practically speaking, the Trump administration’s extrajudicial assassination of a top Iranian general was probably legal. The rationale is straightforward: Congress has steadily settled on a constitutionally dubious theory of handing the president near-limitless authority over how, when, and why... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 28, 2019 How the Judiciary Is Chipping Away at the War on Terror In times of war, the law often does fall silent . The U.S. Supreme Court, in all its independence and courage, has endorsed concentration camps , censorship , sham military tribunals , and guilt by association at various points in its history. Textbooks and television sell us the caricature of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 22, 2019 Should We Fight a War on White Terrorism? Although its precise scale is hard to measure, violent white supremacy is clearly a problem in the United States. From El Paso to Pittsburgh, the fears and fantasies of an immigrant invasion, a liberal Jewish betrayal, and a righteous race war have motivated surgically targeted slaughter. With law... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 02, 2019 American Concentration Camps, Then and Now In our history textbooks, “Japanese internment,” as it’s carelessly called, features as a mistake, blunder, or brief departure from constitutional piety following the trauma of Pearl Harbor. The summary detention of 120,000 people of Japanese descent — around 80,000 of whom were American citizens... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 09, 2018 Wars Come and Go in Gaza, But Economic Violence Is Every Day “They just seem — well — less developed, less innovative, less productive than the Israelis.” This was one of the many objections I faced during a recent attempt to secure support for a petition condemning the 12-year siege of Gaza. While it seemed honest, it was also probably influenced by a time-... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 26, 2018 America’s Hypocrisy on Free Trade Is Dangerous How did the United States get rich? The textbooks tell us it was the “free enterprise” genie. The Founding Fathers, they say, had the foresight to construct a political and economic vision of a commercial republic, committed to private property, open markets, and individual liberty. Slavery was the... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 24, 2017 The US Is Stockpiling Nuclear Arms, and the Cost Is Astonishing Overwhelmed with stories of high-level indictments, intrigues, investigations, and scandals, the American public can be forgiven for missing revelations about an issue of some importance: our nuclear weapons. Thanks to an October 31 report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), we now have a 30-... Read more |
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Views Monday, November 20, 2017 The U.S. Is Stockpiling Nuclear Arms, and the Cost Is Astonishing Overwhelmed with stories of high-level indictments, intrigues, investigations, and scandals, the American public can be forgiven for missing revelations about an issue of some importance: our nuclear weapons. Thanks to an October 31 report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), we now have a 30-... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 19, 2017 What Happened to the Arms Trade Treaty? April 2, 2013 was an unusually happy day at UN headquarters in New York. After years of pressure from civil society groups, the General Assembly adopted a new treaty establishing “the highest possible common standards” for regulating the “international trade in conventional arms.” The Arms Trade... Read more |