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The Lawfare Podcast: Steve Budiansky on ‘Code Warriors’
Steve Budiansky is the author of Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union. He joined Ben at the Hoover Book Soiree recently for a live conversation about... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Cody Poplin posted the public remarks Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released before the pre-trial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay resumed. David Hopen continued Lawfare’s... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Republican Party’s national convention ended on Thursday after Donald J. Trump accepted the party’s nomination for president with a blistering address that painted a dystopian picture of the United S... -
7/20 Session: There's Only One Way to Pro Se
It’s Wednesday morning and we’re back at Guantanamo Bay for more pre-trial hearings in the case of the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks. The previous two days have been closed sessions, but ... -
Toward a Common Lexicon of Violent Extremism
As the fifteen year anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the recent spate of attacks highlights that the world still lacks an established lexicon for describing extremist violence. Governments, media, and aca... -
One Year Out: Reflections on the Iran Nuclear Deal
Contrary to much of the apocalyptic speculation when the Iran nuclear agreement was first signed, the world has not, in fact, collapsed in the subsequent year. On Monday—a few days past the deal’s one-ye... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Turkey has declared a three month state of emergency, giving President Erdogan and his loyalist cabinet the power to make laws by fiat, impose curfews and restrict public gathering. The move, which Erdog... -
Public Opinion on National Security: A First Installment
Ben has asked me to keep track of public opinion data related to national security on the benefit of Lawfare readers. There are relatively few polls on national security issues specifically, but questio... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric living in self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania, orchestrated last week’s failed coup. Erdogan has promised to request Gul... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast: An Interview with Jeremy and Ariel Rabkin
In the news roundup, Michael Vatis covers Microsoft’s surprising Second Circuit victory over the Justice Department in litigation over a warrant for data stored in Ireland. -
What is Beyond the Border?
Over the past decade, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children have been brutally murdered. Their bullet-riddled bodies can be found in ditches, hanging from bridges, or strewn across highways a... -
Introducing "Beyond the Border": Stephanie Leutert on Cartel and Gang Violence in Mexico and Central America
On behalf of both Lawfare and the Strauss Center at the University of Texas at Austin, I’m very happy to announce the launch of a new series—“Beyond the Border”—that will focus on the complex array of se...
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