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Paul Manafort heads to sentencing amid revelations that he has lied to the special counsel, cooperated with Trump’s legal team, and may have met with Julian Assange. The president stands by Saudi Arabia ...
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Roger Stone is pleased to be known as a campaign “dirty trickster.” A former Trump campaign aide and Republican operative, he has embraced his past as practitioner of the political dark arts. “One man’s...
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North Korea accused the U.S. of stirring up conflict after Washington called for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss human rights abuses in North Korea, reports the Washington Post.
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On Nov. 19, the Commerce Department published a notice seeking public comment on proposed export controls under fourteen categories of emerging technologies.
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I propose this episode’s title as Baker’s Law of Evil Technology, something that explains Twitter’s dysfunctional woke-ness, Yahoo’s crappy security and Uber’s deadly autonomous vehicles. Companies with ...
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The new U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) vision and the Department of Defense Cyber Strategy embody a fundamental reorientation in strategic thinking.
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And we’re back, full of turkey and much else besides! We hope you all had a restful and grateful Thanksgiving (or, for our non-American listeners, that you had a wonderful ordinary work week), and are f...
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This week, Russia and Ukraine went at it in the Kerch Strait, which separates the Black Sea from the Sea of Azov. It's the latest salvo in Russia's secret (not-so-secret) war against Ukraine and its east...
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United Arab Emirates Releases British Graduate Student Accused of Spying
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Prosecutors on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s legal team said Monday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort breached his plea deal by lying to repeatedly to the special counsel’s office in t...
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One year ago, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the Nobel Peace Prize for its advocacy that contributed to the first legally binding treaty ban of nuclear weapons: the Treaty on t...
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This is the second post in a series. Read the first part of the series here.
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On Sunday, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency shut down the border crossing in both directions at Tijuana and fired tear gas at migrants who tried to evade a Mexican police blockade and get to...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Tuesday, Nov. 27 at 10 a.m.: The Brookings Institution will host an discussion on power transitions in Africa with Reuben Brigety, former ambass...
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Lawfare recently published two responses—one by Bobby Chesney, the other by Robert Williams and Ben Buchanan—to my Lawfare essay providing a Chinese perspective on the concept of “Defending Forward” adop...
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The election of a Democratic House of Representatives begins the process of holding President Trump accountable and brings into focus how, in the years to come, Americans should think about repairing the...
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After more than seven and a half years of death and destruction, there is a sense that the Syrian war is coming to an end.
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Available now from the Lawfare Store for #CyberMonday: the very special—limited edition—"material support" shirt.
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Editor’s Note: The war in Yemen has gone from bad to worse, and pressure is mounting for the United States to cut its support for Saudi Arabia's failed intervention in the country. But the lessons from t...
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John Carlin served as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s National Security Division from April 2014 to October 2016. In his new book with Garrett Graff, called “Dawn of the Code War:...
