Rational Security: The "Eldritch Portents" Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan and Quinta were joined again by Brookings Senior Fellow and Lawfare Senior Editor Molly Reynolds to talk over the week’s national security news, including:“The 702...
14 Apr 20241h 2min
Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Jury Selection Starts Monday
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on April 11 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic sat down with Legal Fellow An...
13 Apr 20241h 23min
Lawfare Archive: Daniel Reisner on Law, Security, and Peace in the Middle East
From January 17, 2015: This week, Ben Wittes and Matt Waxman sat down with Daniel Reisner, former head of the International Law Branch of the Israeli Defense Forces and current partner with Herzog, Fo...
13 Apr 20241h 14min
Jack Goldsmith and Bob Bauer on Reforming the Insurrection Act
The Insurrection Act is a provision that allows the president to deploy the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement. It’s been invoked dozens of times by presidents to respond to crises in the over...
12 Apr 202457min
Chatter: The Pentagon’s Alliance with the Country Music Industry with Joseph Thompson
For decades, country music has had a close and special relationship to the U.S. military. In his new book, Cold War Country, historian Joseph Thompson shows how the leaders of Nashville’s Music Row fo...
11 Apr 20241h 19min
Conditioning Arms to Israel with Sarah Harrison
Last week, 40 Democratic members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to President Biden expressing concern and outrage over an Israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers from the World...
11 Apr 202453min
Information Ecology and 19th-Century Naturalism at Verify 2024
Hosted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Cyber Initiative and Aspen Digital, Verify 2024 brings together journalists and cyber and tech policy experts to discuss critical issues in cybersecu...
10 Apr 202444min
Juliette Kayyem on the Baltimore Bridge Collapse and Crisis Management
In the early morning on March 26, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge collapsed, resulting in the death of six of the eight individuals conduct...
9 Apr 202441min
