Benjamin Wittes
Benjamin Wittes is a contributing writer at The Atlantic, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and the editor in chief of Lawfare.
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A specialist in law and national security, he is the author of several books. Most recently, he co-wrote Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump’s War on the World’s Most Powerful Office. He previously served as a member of The Washington Post’s editorial-page staff, where he focused on legal affairs.
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Suspended Sentencing
The consequences of "the single most irresponsible decision in the modern history of the Supreme Court"
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Enemy Americans
Jose Padilla and Yaser Esam Hamdi are American citizens. The Bush Administration has claimed the right to imprison them indefinitely without charge or trial, on the grounds that they are "enemy combatants" in the war on terror. Does a new kind of war require new kinds of laws?