Firing Inspectors General
President Trump on Friday fired the inspector general of the State Department. It was the fourth time he had fired or removed an inspector general in just the last six weeks. As he explained in a lett...
19 Touko 202047min
David Kaye on Free Speech During a Pandemic
The global pandemic has raised searching questions about the relationship between a public health emergency and free speech. Jack Goldsmith sat down with David Kaye, the outgoing U.N. Special Rapporte...
16 Touko 202056min
Global Trade and Investment in the Coronavirus Era
The global coronavirus pandemic has changed the way different corners of the world interact with each other, perhaps forever. Nowhere is this more true than the global economy, where a decade's long t...
15 Touko 202053min
Craig Silverman on Real Reporting on Fake News
On this week's episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek spoke with Craig Silverman, the media editor for Buzzfeed News and one of the leading journalists covering ...
14 Touko 202047min
Elizabeth Shackelford on 'The Dissent Channel'
Scott R. Anderson sat down with Elizabeth Shackelford, a former foreign service officer whose late 2017 resignation became a sign of growing discontent with the Trump administration within the diploma...
13 Touko 202051min
The President's Tax Returns and the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today held arguments in a blockbuster case. Do the Trump tax returns and associated financial documents at firms like Mazars and Deutsche Bank need to be turned over in response to c...
12 Touko 202053min
'Unmaking the Presidency'
From the moment of his inauguration, Trump has challenged our deepest expectations of the presidency. But what are those expectations? Where did they come from, and how great is the damage? "Unmaking ...
10 Touko 202036min
Dropping the Flynn Case
The Justice Department moved this week to dismiss the charges against Michael Flynn, a man who had pled guilty to lying to the FBI. It was an extraordinary move, one that provoked glee among the presi...
9 Touko 202057min
