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Chatter: Why Foreign Policy Elites Matter with Elizabeth Saunders
The "deep state." The "blob." Foreign policy elites are often so labeled, misunderstood, and denigrated. But what influence on presidents and on publ…
2 years, 1 month ago
Paul Beckett on the Evan Gershkovich Case
Paul Beckett was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. But since the arrest of the newspaper's Russia correspondent, Evan Gershkovi…
2 years, 1 month ago
Contestability in Government AI Systems
The use of AI to make decisions about individuals raises the issue of contestability. When automated systems are used by governments to decide whethe…
2 years, 1 month ago
Data Privacy and Consumer Protection with the FTC’s Ben Wiseman
The Federal Trade Commission’s data, privacy, and AI cases have been all over the news recently, from its proposed settlement with Avast Antivirus to…
2 years, 1 month ago
Asylum-Seekers and the EU Migration Pact
In early February, the European Union approved a major overhaul of its immigration laws. If approved by EU member states, the pact will drastically c…
2 years, 1 month ago
Rational Security: The “A Terrorism Briefing From a Goldendoodle” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan and Quinta were joined again by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel B…
2 years, 1 month ago
Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Two Weeks Until a Trial
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on March 28 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Editor-…
2 years, 1 month ago
Lawfare Archive: Vladimir Kara-Murza on Russia's So-Called 'Election'
From April 7, 2018: Vladimir Kara-Murza is the vice chairman of Open Russia, the founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation and a contributing opinion w…
2 years, 1 month ago
Shannon Togawa Mercer on Negotiating with the Bad Guys
Shannon Togawa Mercer served as Lawfare's Managing Editor and then went on to quite a career shift. She now negotiates with ransomware bad actors. Sh…
2 years, 1 month ago
Chatter: Nuclear War, A Scenario with Annie Jacobsen
Without warning, North Korea launches a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile at the United States. American satellites detect the launch …
2 years, 1 month ago