Rational Security: The “Going Once, Going Twice” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan and Quinta were joined by Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett to talk through the week's big national security news, including:“A Gag Order Prevents Me From Te...
7 Apr 20241h 5min
Trump's Trials and Tribulations: Trump Gagged Once Again
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on April 4 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal...
6 Apr 20241h 32min
Lawfare Archive: An Assassination in Iran
From December 2, 2020: The top Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed, apparently in an Israeli strike. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who has long been the mastermind of the Iranian nuclear program, was gunn...
6 Apr 202450min
How Congressional Staffers Helped Our Afghan Allies
A new report from the POPVOX Foundation focuses on a little-known and hugely under-appreciated congressional effort: that of congressional staffers helping Afghan allies flee the country during the U....
5 Apr 202437min
Chatter: Why Foreign Policy Elites Matter with Elizabeth Saunders
The "deep state." The "blob." Foreign policy elites are often so labeled, misunderstood, and denigrated. But what influence on presidents and on public opinion do they actually have?Elizabeth Saunders...
4 Apr 20241h 22min
Paul Beckett on the Evan Gershkovich Case
Paul Beckett was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. But since the arrest of the newspaper's Russia correspondent, Evan Gershkovich, last year in Russia on bogus spying charges, he...
4 Apr 202436min
Contestability in Government AI Systems
The use of AI to make decisions about individuals raises the issue of contestability. When automated systems are used by governments to decide whether to grant or deny benefits, or calculate medical n...
3 Apr 202456min
Data Privacy and Consumer Protection with the FTC’s Ben Wiseman
The Federal Trade Commission’s data, privacy, and AI cases have been all over the news recently, from its proposed settlement with Avast Antivirus to its lawsuit against data broker Kochava.Lawfare Co...
2 Apr 202449min
