The State of the Kabul Airlift
The city of Kabul’s international airport has become the unlikely focal point of an unprecedented humanitarian effort as U.S. soldiers and diplomats seek to maintain control of their airport facility ...
20 Aug 202156min
Facebook Shuts Down Research On Itself
In October 2020, Facebook sent a cease and desist letter to two New York University researchers collecting data on the ads Facebook hosts on its platform, arguing that the researchers were breaching t...
19 Aug 202159min
Zack Beauchamp on the American Right’s Embrace of the Hungarian Regime of Viktor Orbán
Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson, whose nightly news show on Fox has become the most popular show in U.S. cable news history, traveled to Budapest to record a special version of his show. The center...
18 Aug 202155min
After the Fall in Afghanistan
This past Sunday, Americans woke up to a new reality in the country of Afghanistan—the Afghan government that the United States and its allies have supported for the last two decades is gone. In its p...
17 Aug 202157min
How Can Congress Take on the Ransomware Problem?
The United States government has been wrestling with what to do about a particular type of cyber threat—ransomware—that holds a victim's data and computer systems hostage until they pay, usually in th...
16 Aug 202153min
Lawfare Archive: Fighting Deep Fakes
From August 4, 2018: Technologies that distort representations of reality, like audio, photo and video editing software, are nothing new, but what happens when these technologies are paired with artif...
15 Aug 202145min
Lawfare Archive: A Conversation with John Rizzo
From April 19, 2014: Benjamin Wittes had meant to have a book review of former CIA lawyer John Rizzo's new book, Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA, ready to run along with...
14 Aug 202148min
Mayank Varia and Riana Pfefferkorn on Apple's Decision to Scan for Child Exploitation Material
Two of the biggest controversies in tech are how to stop the spread of child pornography and other exploitation material, and whether encryption prevents legitimate law enforcement investigations. In ...
13 Aug 20211h 2min
