Shorts: What William Taylor’s Testimony Adds to the Ukraine Story
Amb. William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified on Tuesday in a close-door meeting with Congressional committees involved in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. Tuesday aftern...
23 Loka 201918min
James Verini and Dan Gabriel on the Battle for Mosul
In 2014, the precipitous fall of the ancient city of Mosul signaled the sudden rise to power of the Islamic State, a group that would soon declare a new caliphate from Mosul's Great Mosque. Two years ...
23 Loka 201945min
The Report, Episode 12: It Will Never Get Out
It’s February 6, 2018. Don McGahn is back in the Oval Office with President Trump and the new White House chief of staff John Kelly. The New York Times has just published a story reporting that, back ...
20 Loka 20191h
What's Going on in Syria
It's been a horrible week in northeastern Syria. The U.S. abandoned its Kurdish allies after the president had a conversation by phone with Turkish President Erdogan and pulled the plug on the stabili...
19 Loka 201957min
Chesney, Monaco, McCord, and Rasmussen on Domestic Terrorism
A couple of weeks ago, Lawfare and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law sponsored a series of panels at the Texas Tribune Festival. For this episode, we bring you the audio of our Tri...
16 Loka 201958min
The Report, Episode 11: A Special Counsel
It’s May 17, 2017. White House Counsel Don McGahn is in the Oval Office with the president. McGahn’s job is to represent the office of the presidency, which isn’t quite the same as representing the pr...
13 Loka 201958min
Leah Sottile on Bundyville and American Radicalism
At his rally in Minneapolis earlier this week, President Trump received voluntary security from an unexpected source: the Oathkeepers, a far-right militia associated with the white supremacy movement....
12 Loka 20191h 9min
Jim Baker and Susan Landau on 'Moving the Encryption Policy Conversation Forward'
Encryption and going dark splashed across the headlines in the wake of the 2015 San Bernardino attack, when the FBI and Apple went to court over access to an encrypted iPhone recovered from one of the...
9 Loka 201949min
