What the Heck is Up with 702?
As the year is coming to a close, Congress has now missed the deadline for reauthorizing FISA Section 702. Molly Reynolds, a Brookings fellow in Governance Studies and expert on Congress, joined Benja...
23 Dec 201741min
C. Christine Fair on Bangladeshi Terrorism
Last week, a Bangladeshi man set off a pipe bomb in the New York subway in an attempted terrorist attack inspired by the Islamic State. C. Christine Fair, a professor in Georgetown University’s Peace ...
20 Dec 201740min
Noah Feldman on Madison’s Three Lives
President James Madison shaped the course of American history in not one, not two, but three different and foundational roles in the formation of the young republic. He was a drafter of the constituti...
16 Dec 201738min
Saria Samakie on Surviving Syria
Saria Samakie has a story unlike those of most of his peers at Georgetown. After being kidnapped three times in Syria, Samakie managed to flee the war-ravaged country and eventually arrived in the Uni...
12 Dec 201752min
MIkhail Zygar on Putin as the Accidental King
When the Department of Justice required RT, the Russian-funded news outlet, to register as a foreign agent last month, the Russian government responded in kind. Yet the Kremlin's recent crackdown on W...
9 Dec 201745min
Bruce Riedel on Kings and Presidents
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, America’s longtime ally in the Middle East, faces a tumultuous future. Plummeting oil prices, an ongoing royal purge, and Yemen’s civil war across the border have thrust t...
5 Dec 201743min
Special Edition: A Criminal #Flynnformation and a Plea Deal
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty today and agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. We put together an all-star panel to talk it through. Lawfare contribut...
1 Dec 201738min
Orin Kerr on Carpenter
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Carpenter v. United States, a major Fourth Amendment case asking whether a warrant is necessary before law enforcement can obtain cell site data ide...
29 Nov 201738min
