Trump’s Final Year with Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker
There are some stunning revelations coming out of the new blockbuster book by Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker, “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year.” If you thought you knew ho...
26 Jul 202147min
Lawfare Archive: Amanda Sloat on Boris Johnson and Brexit
From August 10, 2019: The United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister. It also has a looming cliff it is careening toward and about to leap off of on Halloween of this year. This week, Benjamin Wittes sat...
25 Jul 202152min
Lawfare Archive: John Carlin on 'Dawn of the Code War'
From November 24, 2018: John Carlin served as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s National Security Division from April 2014 to October 2016. In his new book with Garrett Graff, ca...
24 Jul 202155min
A Guantanamo Update with Latif Nasser and Steve Vladeck
It's been a busy couple of weeks at Guantanamo Bay, a place that has not had a busy couple of weeks in a while. There was a transfer, there was a resumption of military commissions, and the chief pros...
23 Jul 202150min
Facebook v. the White House: Renee DiResta and Brendan Nyhan Weigh In
This week we're bringing you the breakdown of the heavyweight bout of the century—a battle over vaccine misinformation. In the left corner we have the White House. Known for its impressive arsenal and...
22 Jul 202153min
Yemen on the Brink of Hope with Elisabeth Kendall and Alexandra Stark
Yemen remains a mess. Many years of warfare have left it politically fractured, economically shattered and with a true humanitarian crisis of multiple dimensions. And yet there are some small signs of...
21 Jul 202142min
Dmitri Alperovitch and Matt Tait on the Latest in Cybersecurity
It was quite a week in cybersecurity. The Israeli firm NSO Group was outed by a consortium of newspapers and media entities for its snooping software Pegasus, which seems to have gathered data from th...
20 Jul 202145min
Scott Anderson on Withdrawals, Then and Now
U.S. troops are pulling out of Afghanistan, the withdrawal is almost done and U.S. forces turned over the Bagram Airfield to Afghan forces the other day. Scott Anderson knows something about withdrawa...
19 Jul 202151min
