A Moratorium Fiasco
You've probably heard about the craziness around the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium. They consulted outside law professors instead of the Justice Department. Or did they? The president...
11 Aug 202152min
Ben Kaiser and Jonathan Mayer on Fighting Misinformation Online
The spread of misinformation is one of the biggest challenges facing social media platforms. A standard approach is to label suspicious posts or links so as to warn users that what they're engaging wi...
10 Aug 202142min
The Olympics Aren't All Fun and Games
The Olympics ended yesterday after more than two weeks of exciting international competition in Tokyo. On this episode of the podcast, we're taking a look back at some of the security and internationa...
9 Aug 202146min
Lawfare Archive: War Powers History You Never Knew with Matt Waxman
From March 9, 2019: For the past year, Matthew Waxman has been writing a series of vignettes on Lawfare about interesting—and usually overlooked—historical episodes of American constitutional war powe...
8 Aug 20211h
Lawfare Archive: Antony Blinken on the Future of Central Asia
From the April 18, 2015: Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Brookings for a public address on the current priorities and future prospects for U.S. engagement in Central Asia. With the dr...
7 Aug 20211h 5min
Unfinished Business at the Department of Justice
It's been a busy few weeks at the Justice Department. There was a major indictment of the chair of the former president's inaugural committee. There have been new policies promulgated on subpoenas to ...
6 Aug 20211h 5min
Facebook’s Thoughts on Its Oversight Board
There have been a thousand hot takes about the Facebook Oversight Board, the Supreme Court-like thing Facebook set up to oversee its content moderation. The Board generated so much press coverage when...
5 Aug 202158min
Peter Bergen Reassessing Osama bin Laden
The U.S. raid on the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that brought Osama bin Laden to ultimate justice also recovered nearly half a million files. In 2017, these files were publicly released, but few...
4 Aug 202151min
