Baybars Örsek on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Fact-Checking
On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Baybars Örsek, the Director of the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynte...
26 Mars 202044min
Shorts: How Do You Spy When the World is Shut Down?
Like a marriage, a healthy relationship between an intelligence officer and an asset usually features ample attention and extensive energy. And of course, a lot of time spent with one another. But how...
25 Mars 202016min
Freedom House on 'Freedom in the World'
Since 1974, Freedom House has compiled the “Freedom in the World” report, a comparative assessment of global rights and civil liberties that ranks each country’s level of freedom and identifies region...
24 Mars 202039min
Alina Polyakova and Torrey Taussig on 'The Democracy Playbook'
Democracies around the world are under assault, with their norms and institutions undermined by authoritarian actors. From Hungary to India and beyond, illiberal or populist governments are weakening ...
21 Mars 202043min
Steve Vladeck on Emergency Powers and Coronavirus
What can the president do in a national emergency? What limits what the president can do? What authorizes the president to do all those things he can do in a national emergency? Is the president abusi...
19 Mars 202053min
Rebecca Katz on Global Health Security and the Coronavirus Response
Dr. Rebecca Katz is the director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center. She also teaches courses on global health diplomacy, global health securi...
17 Mars 202048min
Kate Starbird on Pandemics and Infodemics
On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Kate Starbird, an Associate Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the ...
16 Mars 202041min
Josh Sharfstein on Coronavirus
Josh Sharfstein is the vice dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also served as the secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He was the principal d...
14 Mars 202047min
