The PEPFAR Reauthorization Battle, with Emily Bass
In 2003, President Bush created the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, and in the twenty years since, the program has been credited with saving over 25 million lives and stabilizin...
22 Aug 202340min
Does It Matter Whether Trump Believed His Own Lies?
It’s only been a few weeks since Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Donald Trump. But both he and his lawyers have already been previewing their case in defense: that he was protected by the First Am...
21 Aug 202346min
Rational Security: The “Donny with the Gold Hair” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Fulton County correspondent Anna Bower to talk through the week’s big news down south, including: “Waiting on a Midnight Complain...
20 Aug 20231h 8min
Lawfare Archive: Allies: Faithful and Valuable Service
From May 16, 2022: In order to tell you this story, we need to start at the beginning, just before the U.S. invasion. After 9/11, the CIA set their sights on al-Qaeda’s base in Afghanistan. After a mi...
19 Aug 202335min
Congressional Oversight, Post-Trump
Listeners of this podcast are probably familiar with Molly Reynolds’s work on Congress. She’s a Senior Fellow at Brookings and a Senior Editor at Lawfare—and she has a new report out at Brookings, wit...
18 Aug 202346min
Chatter: Russian Spies in Reality and Fiction with Calder Walton
Dr. Calder Walton, assistant director of the Applied History Project and Intelligence Project at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, has become one of the world's...
17 Aug 20231h 36min
Anna Bower on What Happened in Coffee County
Lawfare Fulton County Correspondent Anna Bower is the author of the Lawfare article entitled, “What the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia?” It is a detailed look back at the computer intrusion t...
17 Aug 202357min
Explaining the Michigan Fake Electors Prosecution
On July 18, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel unveiled criminal charges against 16 people—the “fake electors” from that state who featured in Trump’s effort to hold onto power in 2020. Just a few ...
16 Aug 202342min
