The word perfidy has the antiquarian ring of a dead-letter crime, one that persists on the books because no one has bothered to remove it. (It also sounds, in the phrase perfidious Jews, like classic ...

The English word isn’t one we hear often although it fits a number of situations. The Spanish translation became the title of a delightful melody that I heard not long ago — which inspired this column ...

Gullible Superpower: U.S. Support For Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements by Ted Galen Carpenter, 2019, Cato Institute, 300 pages For the past 20 years, U.S. foreign policy has been marked by constant ...

Neal A. Richardson is a deputy district attorney and Spencer J. Crona is a lawyer who has written on terrorism and international law. Both live in Denver. As Saddam Hussein’s regime whimpers to ...

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is the latest instance of perfidy in a Pakistan ...

“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.” There would be no such “immunization” if Palestinian authorities ...

THE MAN in the wheelchair, pushed along by three companions, looks like any other patient in the Ibn Sina hospital in the West Bank. So does the woman in a headscarf apparently carrying a baby. Others ...

Failure to stick to the principles of war - such as faking a surrender - can lead to tragic consequences for both sides. Joshua Rozenberg reports The Iraqi army officer who killed four American ...

Imagine being sued for breach of contract, the claim being that you failed to deliver what you promised, and scrambling for a defense. In the remote corners of the internet you find something to ...

Perfidy is a playground filled with silly people out to snatch a cut from a 12-million-shilling heist by one corrupt politician that too many folks already know about. It’s a slightly twisted story ...

The law's reach never stretched this far.