Rational Security: The “Low Down Dirty Shane” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan and Scott were joined by co-host emeritus (and Washington Post star reporter) Shane Harris to talk over the week's news! Including:“Flight of the Valkyries.” Recen...
21 Touko 20231h 5min
Lawfare Archive: Cheap Fakes on the Campaign Trail
From September 9, 2020: It was a big week for manipulated video and audio content. In just 36 hours, senior republicans or people associated with the Trump campaign tweeted, posted or shared manipulat...
20 Touko 202344min
Alex Iftimie on DOJ’s Recent Cyber Disruption Efforts
Over the past two weeks, the Department of Justice has issued two press releases announcing disruption efforts it has taken against malicious cyber actors. One operation involved the disruption of Rus...
19 Touko 202342min
Chatter: ‘Special Military Operations’ Against the Russians with Benjamin Wittes
On April 13, 2022, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes conducted his first “special military operation” at the Russian embassy in Washington, DC. It...
18 Touko 20231h 20min
Crack-Up Capitalism with Quinn Slobodian
Think about the world. You might be picturing a globe in a classroom, with its patchwork of multi-colored nations. Or perhaps you have an image of a 2-D map in your head, the famous Mercator projectio...
18 Touko 202357min
Inside the Capitol Police’s Intelligence Dysfunction
The House’s select committee on Jan. 6 may have wound down its work at the end of December 2022, but questions about why law enforcement, including the U.S. Capitol Police, were unprepared for the pos...
17 Touko 202351min
The Shadow Docket
In recent years, the Supreme Court's non-merits “shadow docket” has become a topic of contestation and controversy, especially the Court's emergency orders rulings on issues ranging from immigration t...
16 Touko 20231h 7min
The Law of the Sea in the Age of Climate Change
Though the threat of climate change has come sharply into focus in recent decades, humans have long endeavored to shape and reshape the natural world, carving it up and making sense of it through tech...
15 Touko 202349min
