Briefings Schmiefings
Last week, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe informed Congress that elections security briefings in the run-up to the 2020 election would no longer be oral. There would be written intel...
2 Sep 202043min
Election Anxieties and the U.S. Postal Service with Kevin Kosar and Anne Joseph O’Connell
On August 13, President Trump said in a news interview that he opposed supplemental funding for the United States Postal Service because such funding is needed for the delivery of universal mail-in ba...
1 Sep 202054min
Trade War Powers: Past, Present and Future
Earlier this month, the Trump administration re-imposed tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada, signaling a new salvo in the now years-long trade war it has been waging with countless U.S. trading pa...
31 Aug 202055min
"What’s Going on at Pompeo’s State Department?" with Nahal Toosi and Scott Anderson
In mid-May, President Trump fired the State Department Inspector General Steve Linick. The ouster came as a surprise, and although it is clear that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Trump to fire h...
28 Aug 20201h 3min
Emma Llansó on the Most Important Content Moderation Database You’ve Never Heard Of
This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Emma Llansó, the director of the Free Expression Project at the Center for Democracy and T...
27 Aug 202053min
Yemen's Ongoing Tragedy
Yemen is home to the most tragic circumstances imaginable right now—years upon years of war, environmental disasters and severe humanitarian plight, exacerbated by cholera, diphtheria and now COVID-19...
26 Aug 202040min
Harold Holzer on 'The Presidents vs. the Press'
Jack Goldsmith spoke with Harold Holzer, director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, about his new book, "The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle Between the Wh...
25 Aug 202054min
The State of the U.S.-China Relationship
In recent months, relations between the United States and China seem to have reached a new low as disagreements over trade, tech, human rights and the coronavirus have led the two sides to exchange in...
24 Aug 20201h 2min
