Special Edition: Indictment Day
What a day. Paul Manafort Jr. and Richard Gates III have been indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who today also rolled out a plea deal with Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos. Lawfare...
31 Okt 201733min
Revenge of the Blob: A Texas National Security Review Panel
This week marked the launch of the Texas National Security Review, a new publication from the University of Texas and War on the Rocks. At the recent launch event of the journal, War on the Rocks edit...
27 Okt 201754min
Brookings Panel on 'Icarus' and Russian Meddling
Last week, Lawfare hosted a screening and panel discussion of the new film Icarus at the Brookings Institution. Benjamin Wittes moderated the conversation with director Bryan Fogel, producer Dan Cogan...
24 Okt 201747min
Timothy Edgar on Mass Surveillance After Snowden
In his recent book Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance, and the Struggle to Reform the NSA, civil liberties activist and former intelligence official Timothy Edgar calls for a renewed conversat...
21 Okt 201744min
Bonus Edition: Stephen Vladeck on Detaining an American Enemy Combatant
When an American ISIS fighter turned himself in to Syrian Democratic Forces last month, the subsequent detention of the unnamed enemy combatant by U.S. forces sparked concern. To explore the implicati...
17 Okt 201753min
Shadi Hamid and William McCants on Rethinking Political Islam
Political Islam has been radically shifting in the past four years since the Egyptian coup and the emergence of ISIS, consequently challenging how we understand Islamist movements and their impact. To...
13 Okt 201736min
Bob Bauer and A.B. Culvahouse on Defending the President
Last month, Lawfare and Foreign Policy hosted an event on lawyering for the Trump presidency. Susan Hennessey spoke with former White House Counsels Bob Bauer, who served in the Obama administration f...
6 Okt 201735min
Bonus Edition: Jack Goldsmith on the Norm-Defying Presidency
President Trump's conduct in office draws a sharp contrast between laws that formally restrict the presidency and the institutional norms that presidents have historically followed. For the October 20...
3 Okt 201744min
