Anna Bower on Judge McBurney's Deliberations
Judge Robert McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County held a hearing on Tuesday to decide whether or not to release the Fulton County Special Grand Jury's report on 2020 election interference i...
25 Jan 202342min
Lynzy Billing on Afghanistan's Zero Unit Night Raids
In 2019, investigative journalist and photographer Lynzy Billing went to Afghanistan to investigate a very personal story: her own past. In the process, she discovered what she came to call a classifi...
24 Jan 202342min
When States Make Tech Policy
Tech policy reform occupies a strange place in Washington, D.C. Everyone seems to agree that the government should change how it regulates the technology industry, on issues from content moderation to...
23 Jan 202345min
Chatter: A Post-Presidency Done Right with Jean Becker
For almost 25 years, until his death in November 2018, former president George H. W. Bush's chief of staff was Jean Becker. For event after event through both the best of those times and the worst—fro...
22 Jan 20231h 40min
Lawfare Archive: The Past, Present and Future of Sovereign Immunity
From December 11, 2020: This week, the Supreme Court returned once again to the complex and sometimes controversial Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, or FSIA, that protects foreign sovereigns from lit...
21 Jan 20231h 4min
Biden's National Security Presidency So Far with Chris Whipple
We have just ended Biden's first two years as president, and it's a great time to reflect back on the wild national security ride we’ve had. In fact, Chris Whipple has just done that by publishing his...
20 Jan 202344min
Lifting the Veil on Fusion Centers
In the wake of September 11, 2001, federal law enforcement agencies were caught flatfooted when they realized that they'd had the intel to prevent the attack on the homeland, but they'd failed to conn...
19 Jan 20231h 8min
Halkbank Hits the Supreme Court
In 2019, the U.S. government took a step that it had never taken before. It brought criminal charges against a foreign state-owned bank, Turkiye Halk Bankasi, or Halkbank, which is majority-owned by t...
18 Jan 20231h 2min
