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• For decades, the United States maintained a complicated relationship with the International Criminal Court: we never fully accepted its jurisdiction, but we also never sought to dismantle it. That appears to be changing. In this video, I examine the legal and strategic implications of the Trump administration's reported effort to dismantle the ICC, why this represents a significant departure from longstanding U.S. policy, and what it could mean for international accountability and the rule of

  14 July 2026 · Charles International Law · $0 – $99 · 0+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• When people debate NATO, the conversation almost always comes down to one metric: defense spending. But I think that's an incomplete way to evaluate an alliance. The United States receives something from our European allies that is extraordinarily difficult to quantify in dollars: access to sovereign territory from which we can project military power, deter aggression, respond to humanitarian crises, and support operations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Those basing rights are no

  27 June 2026 · Charles International Law · $0 – $99 · 0+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

• Most Americans assume that before the government can conduct a forensic search of someone's entire cell phone, it must first present evidence of an actual crime. I encourage you to read the search warrant affidavit in Kimberly Baylor's case and reach your own conclusions. The affidavit describes criticism of public officials, social media posts, emails to a government office, phone calls to a government office, and advocacy concerning a matter of public controversy. What it does not appear to

  27 June 2026 · Charles International Law · $0 – $99 · 2K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

• Most of the people we now celebrate as reformers were considered annoying in their own time. The American patriots were annoying. The abolitionists were annoying. The suffragists were annoying. The civil rights movement was annoying. And that was often the point. Meaningful reform requires people willing to ask uncomfortable questions, challenge accepted assumptions, and refuse to let important issues disappear simply because discussing them makes others uncomfortable. As America approach

  16 June 2026 · Charles International Law · $0 – $99 · 0+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

• Last week, I published a video apologizing for something I got badly wrong. I grew up believing that racism, bigotry, and discrimination still existed, but that they had largely been pushed to the margins of American society. I was wrong. In the follow-up video, I try to answer a question many people asked: "How could you not have seen it?" The answer is uncomfortable. I grew up in a community filled with decent people. I had access to good schools. I had opportunities. I was surrounded by

  7 June 2026 · Charles International Law · $0 – $99 · 100+ impressions · Defensive · Ad Library

• I used to believe many of America’s civil rights battles had largely been won. Not perfectly. Not completely. But enough that the remaining prejudice had been pushed to the margins. I was wrong. That is not easy to say, but it is necessary. I misjudged how secure those gains were across the board: voting rights, race, religion, gender, and LGBTQ equality. I underestimated how fragile our institutions were. I underestimated how quickly old prejudices could move from the margins back into main

  4 June 2026 · Charles International Law · $0 – $99 · 9K+ impressions · Defensive · Ad Library