Rosa Brooks on American Policing
Many scholars have written about the police, but almost all have done so from the outside. Rosa Brooks, a law professor at Georgetown University, is one of the few exceptions. In 2016, Brooks—already ...
2 Mar 202145min
Your Questions on Iraq
The United States hit targets in Syria associated with two Iraqi militias last week in the first military operations of the Biden administration. To catch up on the situation on the ground in Iraq, Be...
1 Mar 202156min
Mary Anne Franks on Section 230
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 immunizes platforms for the behavior of their users. It's been called by some the Magna Carta of the internet—but how foundational is it? Mary Ann...
26 Feb 202136min
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen on Australia, Facebook and the Future of Journalism
This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth miniseries on disinformation and misinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, the director of the Reuters Institute and pro...
25 Feb 202146min
Merrick Garland vs. the Judiciary Committee with No Bull
Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland faced the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday for a multi-hour session of questions and answers from senators. There were opening statements, there was a lot ...
24 Feb 20211h 47min
Alex Klass on the Texas Energy Crisis
For more than a week now, Texas has been struggling with a massive power outage caused by record low temperatures. Millions have been without power, heat and running water, and at least dozens have be...
23 Feb 202138min
Trust, Software and Hardware
David Hoffman is associate general counsel and global privacy officer for the Intel Corporation, as well as the Steed Family Professor of Practice in Cybersecurity Policy for Duke's Sanford School of ...
22 Feb 202159min
The Coup in Myanmar
On February 1, Myanmar's military overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup and declared a state of emergency for a year. It returns Myanmar to full military rule after nearl...
19 Feb 202140min
