Ambassador Doug Silliman on the Fate of Embassy Baghdad
The past year has been a difficult one for the U.S. relationship with Iraq, a country that has increasingly found itself caught in the middle of the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign ag...
16 Okt 202049min
Maria Ressa on the Weaponization of Social Media
On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek spoke with Maria Ressa, a Filipino-American journalist and co-founder of Rappler, an online news site based in Man...
15 Okt 202056min
David Priess Accepts the Results of the Presidential Election
Last Friday, Lawfare's chief operating officer, David Priess, published a piece on the site titled, "The Powerful Norm of Accepting the Results of a Presidential Election." It recounts the long histor...
14 Okt 202030min
Charles Kupchan on 'Isolationism'
Many of us think of the history of the United States' interaction with the world as one of relentless expansion, growth and engagement. From the early colonies, through the Spanish American War, throu...
13 Okt 202054min
Molly Reynolds and Margaret Taylor Talk Congress
Congress is capable of moving a Supreme Court justice at record speed, yet it can't get coronavirus relief passed. It has struggled to keep the government open, and it has pending business that it has...
12 Okt 202051min
Andrew Weissmann on 'Where Law Ends'
Andrew Weissmann was the general counsel of the FBI. He was the head of the Justice Department's fraud section and helped run the Enron Task Force. And yet, he is best known these days for having been...
9 Okt 202051min
Yochai Benkler on Mass-Media Disinformation Campaigns
On this episode of our Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Yochai Benkler, a professor at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Klein Cen...
8 Okt 20201h 3min
Scott Anderson on State Election Rules
We have an election in less than a month, and a lot of analysts seem to be expecting contested results. Doomsday scenarios are playing out in the pages of national magazines, the campaigns are gearing...
7 Okt 202044min
