Lawfare Archive: Justice Stephen Breyer on ‘The Court and the World’
From January 30, 2016: Last week at The Brookings Institution, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer participated in a discussion with Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Newsweek’s D...
29 Jan 20221h 31min
An Islamic State Jailbreak
Late last week and early this week saw fighting between Islamic State fighters and Syrian democratic forces after the Islamic State attempted a jailbreak of a Kurdish prison containing significant num...
28 Jan 202237min
Defunding the Insurrectionists
As we’ve discussed on the show, online advertisements are the shifting, unstable sand on which the contemporary internet is built. And one of the many, many ways in which the online ad ecosystem is co...
27 Jan 202255min
Oona Hathaway and Secrecy’s End
What if we declared an end to the costly system of how we classify national security information in the United States? Oona Hathaway, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International...
26 Jan 202249min
The Capitol Police and the Enduring Effects of Jan. 6
Over the last year, our national dialogue about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has become ever more focused on politics, congressional investigations and criminal prosecutions. But what about the people wh...
25 Jan 202255min
Ned Foley on Electoral Count Act Reform
As the prospect of broader election reform has grown more remote, bipartisan discussions have increasingly come to center on one long standing law: the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Designed to regulat...
24 Jan 202252min
Lawfare Archive: Who is Vladimir Putin?
From April 4, 2015: With a tenuous ceasefire holding in Ukraine, we asked Fiona Hill onto the show to discuss the man behind the unrest: Vladimir Putin. Hill is the co-author of Mr. Putin: Operative i...
23 Jan 202244min
Lawfare Archive: Mark Rozell on 'Presidential Power, Secrecy and Accountability'
From August 6, 2019: Over the years, presidents have used different language to describe the withholding of information from Congress. To discuss the concept of "executive privilege," Margaret Taylor ...
22 Jan 202236min
