Special Edition: A Person of Flynnterest
The Wall Street Journal this morning broke a major story: Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating President Trump's former national security advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn, for allegedly plotting...
10 Nov 20171h 3min
Susan Landau is Listening in on You
Technology presents both consumer convenience and risk, creating a conflict between security and privacy as government agencies seek to weaken the protections that consumers want heightened. Cybersecu...
7 Nov 201747min
Populisms Ancient and Modern with Mike Duncan
Political polarization, inequality, and corruption during the period 146 to 78 BC gravely weakened the Roman Republic in the years before its collapse. In his new book “The Storm Before the Storm: The...
3 Nov 201741min
Anne Applebaum on the Red Famine
Stalin’s 1929 agricultural collectivization policy, which catalyzed the most lethal famine in European history, left millions of Ukrainian peasants dead. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist A...
1 Nov 201726min
Special Edition: Indictment Day
What a day. Paul Manafort Jr. and Richard Gates III have been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who today also rolled out a plea deal with Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos. Lawfare...
31 Okt 201733min
Revenge of the Blob: A Texas National Security Review Panel
This week marked the launch of the Texas National Security Review, a new publication from the University of Texas and War on the Rocks. At the recent launch event of the journal, War on the Rocks edit...
27 Okt 201754min
Brookings Panel on 'Icarus' and Russian Meddling
Last week, Lawfare hosted a screening and panel discussion of the new film Icarus at the Brookings Institution. Benjamin Wittes moderated the conversation with director Bryan Fogel, producer Dan Cogan...
24 Okt 201747min
Timothy Edgar on Mass Surveillance After Snowden
In his recent book Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA, civil liberties activist and former intelligence official Timothy Edgar calls for a renewed conversat...
21 Okt 201744min
