J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
J. Edgar Hoover served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years, from 1924 until 1972. Since his death, Hoover has become one of the most reviled figures in American history due...
6 Dec 202257min
An 11th Circuit Mar-a-Lago Debrief
On Thursday afternoon, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in the amusingly captioned case Trump v. United States of America. The three-judge panel vacated District Judge Aileen Cannon's...
5 Dec 202248min
Chatter: Pandemics and Political Violence with Brian Michael Jenkins
Plagues periodically exact a heavy toll on human life—and much more. They devastate economies, exacerbate social disorder, shock governance systems, provide fodder for political violence, and interact...
4 Dec 20221h 25min
Lawfare Archive: Sophia Yan Reports from Quarantine in Beijing
From April 28, 2020: Sophia Yan, a correspondent for the London Telegraph, joined Benjamin Wittes from Beijing where she is in coronavirus lockdown after traveling to Wuhan, China, to see how it was r...
3 Dec 202233min
Kurt Sanger on Cyber Conflict and the Law
U.S. Cyber Command was established on May 21, 2010, and is the second youngest unified combatant command after U.S. Space Command in the United States. As explained in the Command history, U.S. Cyber ...
2 Dec 202244min
Sophia Yan on the China Protests
Protests have broken out in China over the zero-Covid policy, over lockdowns, and even over the rule of newly appointed third-term leader Xi Jinping. The government has begun a crackdown, there have b...
1 Dec 202238min
Scott R. Anderson on the Past, the Present, and the Future of the 2002 AUMF
The 2002 Iraq AUMF authorized the invasion of Iraq and a variety of U.S. military activities since then, and a large bipartisan group of senators and representatives have decided it's time for it to g...
30 Nov 202250min
Neta Crawford on the Pentagon, Climate Change, and War
The United States military was one of the first institutions in government to acknowledge the threat posed by climate change, as well as the science behind it, and yet it remains the largest single en...
29 Nov 202234min
