'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
Tony Mills on Congress's Institutional Limitations in Responding to the Coronavirus
Margaret Taylor sat down with Tony Mills, director of science policy at the R Street Institute, to talk about an article he recently wrote with Robert Cook-Deegan titled, "Where's Congress? Don't Just...
8 Touko 202037min
Aric Toler on How Not to Report on Disinformation
For this week's episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Alina Polyakova talked to Aric Toler of Bellingcat, a collective that has quickly become the gold-standard f...
7 Touko 202047min
The Lawfare Podcast Bonus Edition: John Ratcliffe vs. The Committee With No Bull
Representative John Ratcliffe testified before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee as a part of his nomination for the position of Director of National Intelligence. Ratcliffe was asked about his...
7 Touko 20201h 22min
Jung Pak on 'Becoming Kim Jong Un'
Jung Pak is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a former CIA analyst and a North Korea specialist. She is the author of "Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Analyst’s Insights into North Kore...
5 Touko 202053min
Law, Policy and Empire with Daniel Immerwahr
Most of us don’t think of United States history as an imperial history, but the facts are there. The law and policy surrounding westward expansion, off-continent acquisitions, and a worldwide network ...
2 Touko 202043min
Tom Wheeler and Nicol Turner Lee on 5G Deployment and Digital Competition with China
Margaret Taylor spoke with Brookings scholars Tom Wheeler and Nicol Turner Lee to discuss their new papers published as part of a two-year-long Brookings project called Global China: Assessing China’s...
1 Touko 202047min
