Chatter: Politicians and White House Plumbers with Olivia Nuzzi
Olivia Nuzzi gets Washington in a way many journalists don’t. As the Washington correspondent for New York magazine, she has written perceptive, piercing, and enduring portraits of Donald Trump and th...
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Lawfare Archive: Dara Lind on Immigration and the Southern Border
From May 7, 2021: Over its first 100 days in office, the Biden administration has faced a difficult set of policy challenges at America's southern border, ranging from new waves of individuals driven ...
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Brian Fishman on Violent Extremism and Platform Liability
Earlier this year, Brian Fishman published a fantastic paper with Brookings thinking through how technology platforms grapple with terrorism and extremism, and how any reform to Section 230 must allow...
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Fionnuala Ní Aoláin on Regulating Spyware
The term “spyware” refers to software that's designed to infiltrate, monitor, and extract sensitive information from a user's device without their knowledge or consent. Perhaps the most infamous examp...
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Ali Breland on Germany’s Neo-Nazi Resurgence
Since 2012, Germany has accepted more refugees than any other country in Europe aside from Turkey. The German government has dispersed these asylum seekers and other immigrants throughout the country,...
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El Salvador’s President Cracks Down on Gangs—and Democracy
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 himself on Twitter as th...
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Treaties and Dysfunctional Diplomacy
The Constitution specifies only one process for making international agreements—Article II gives the president the power to make treaties provided that two-thirds of the senators present concur. The t...
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Rational Security: The “Q Agone” Edition
This week on Rational Security, a Quinta-less Alan and Scott were joined by Lawfare legal fellow Saraphin Dhanani to talk through the week's big national security news, including:“Seoul Authority.” So...
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