Paul Rosenzweig on Investigating American Presidents
With the firing of Jeff Sessions and his replacement with former U.S. attorney Matt Whitaker, all eyes this week are focused on whether Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interf...
10 Marras 201831min
Special Edition: Sessions is Out!
President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday and replaced him on an interim basis with the attorney general’s own chief of staff, a man named Matt Whitaker. Whitaker has made repe...
8 Marras 201857min
Cybersecurity and Financial Stability
The rate and intensity of cyber attacks on financial institutions has increased in recent years, but the risk that these attacks pose to our financial stability remains understudied in the financial i...
2 Marras 201839min
U.S. Policy and the Crisis in Yemen
Since 2011, Yemen has transitioned from the scene of a political crisis to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world, but how U.S. policy affects the situation is the subject of little disc...
31 Loka 201858min
The Migrant Caravan and its Dissenters
There is a caravan—you've probably heard something about it. Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, has heard...
27 Loka 201844min
András Pap on Viktor Orbán and the Decline of Hungarian Democracy
Last week while traveling in the United Kingdom, Benjamin Wittes met up with András Pap, a Hungarian scholar of constitutional law. Pap is a professor with Central European University’s Nationalist St...
24 Loka 201847min
John Mearsheimer on 'The Great Delusion'
In recent decades, both democratic and republican administrations have tried to guide other countries toward liberal democracy. But international relations theorist John Mearsheimer’s latest book, “Th...
19 Loka 201839min
The State of Rule of Law in the U.S.: National Security and Law Enforcement
On October 3, Benjamin Wittes co-hosted an event with his Brookings colleague, Norm Eisen, on The State of Rule of Law in the U.S. Ben moderated a panel on national security and law enforcement with L...
17 Loka 201842min
