Lawfare Archive: El Salvador’s President Cracks Down on Gangs—and Democracy
From May 9, 2023: Since March 2022, El Salvador has been under a state of exception as its President Nayib Bukele seeks to crack down on the country’s powerful gangs. Bukele, who once described himsel...
22 Maalis 20251h 5min
Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Bombing of Yemen and the Houthi Response
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Gregory Johnsen, a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, D.C. Johnsen explains the rationale ...
21 Maalis 202522min
Lawfare Daily: Dan Hendrycks on National Security in the Age of Superintelligent AI
Dan Hendrycks, Director of the Center for AI Safety, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the UT Austin School of Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to discuss his recent pape...
20 Maalis 202540min
Rational Security: The “Berry Boy Blue” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Rational Security veterans and Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Molly Reynolds to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:“House Odds.” Speak...
19 Maalis 20251h 23min
Lawfare Daily: The New Syrian Government and Its Problems
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Steven Heydemann, the Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Smith College, to assess the fast-changing developments...
19 Maalis 202530min
Lawfare Daily: Derek Thompson on Abundance and a New Political Order
Derek Thompson, a senior editor at The Atlantic and co-author (with Ezra Klein) of Abundance, joins Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown and...
18 Maalis 202547min
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 14
In a live conversation on March 14, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, sat down with assistant professor of law at the University of Kentucky Matt Boaz and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and ...
17 Maalis 20251h 30min
Lawfare Archive: Yaya Fanusie on 'Central Bank Digital Currencies: The Threat From Money Launderers and How to Stop Them'
From December 15, 2020: Alan Rozenshtein sat down with Yaya Fanusie, a former CIA analyst and an expert on the national security implications of cryptocurrencies, who recently published a paper as par...
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