Unpacking the Justice Department's Opposition to the Trump Team's Special Master Request
On Tuesday night, running up against the 11:59 PM deadline, the Justice Department filed its 40-page motion opposing Donald Trump's request that a special master be appointed to oversee the handling o...
1 Sep 202255min
Leah Sottile on ‘When the Moon Turns to Blood’
In February 2020, police in the town of Rexburg, Idaho, uncovered evidence of what seemed like an unthinkable crime: two children murdered by one of their parents. The investigation that followed reve...
31 Aug 202245min
Reflecting Upon CFR’s Reports on U.S. Goals in Cyberspace
The era of the global internet offered opportunities for economic and political progress, but it has also afforded bad actors the opportunities to manipulate and leverage this interconnected system fo...
30 Aug 202240min
Max Smeets on Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force
“Cyberspace is the domain of modern warfare” is a popular headline in recent times. Recent state and non-state cyber attacks have given support to this notion, but beyond vague national cyber strategi...
29 Aug 202248min
Rational Security 2.0: The “BOYZ NITE” Edition
This week on Rational Security, a Quinta-less Alan and Scott were joined by host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's big national security stories, including:“Sometimes the Best Defens...
28 Aug 20221h 9min
Chatter: The Moon, Mars, and National Security with Fraser Cain
NASA next week plans to launch the first of several Artemis missions, which collectively aim to land astronauts on the Moon again for the first time in more than half a century, explore the lunar surf...
28 Aug 20221h 26min
Lawfare Archive: Stephanie Leutert on Violence in Mexico and Central America
From October 8, 2016: Stephanie Leutert, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Lawfare's "Beyond the Border" series, joined Benjamin Wittes on th...
27 Aug 202238min
Sean Ekins and Filippa Lentzos on a Teachable Moment for Dual-Use
Back in March, a team of researchers published an article in Nature Machine Intelligence showing that a drug discovery company’s AI-powered molecule generator could have a dangerous dual use: The mode...
26 Aug 202252min
