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The Lawfare Podcast: Jim Baker and Susan Landau on 'Moving the Encryption Policy Conversation Forward'
Encryption and going dark splashed across the headlines in the wake of the 2015 San Bernardino attack, when the FBI and Apple went to court over access to an encrypted iPhone recovered from one of the pe... -
Treasury Proposes New Rules on CFIUS’s Jurisdiction: Opening the Black Box
On Sept. 24, the Federal Register published two proposed rules from the U.S. Treasury Department governing the implementation of provisions from the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 20... -
President Trump Bars Uninsured Immigrants From the U.S.
On Oct. 4, President Trump issued a proclamation that bars otherwise qualified visa applicants from entry into the United States unless they are likely to obtain “approved health insurance” within 30 day... -
The Week That Will Be
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House Committees Subpoena Department of Defense and Office of Management and Budget for Ukraine Documents
The chairmen of three House Committees— Oversight and Reform, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs—sent similar letters to subpoena documents from Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Acting Director of the O... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The White House announced on Sunday that President Trump has backed a Turkish plan that would clear away U.S.-backed Kurdish forces near the Turkish border in Syria and result in the United States not pa... -
Federal District Court Dismisses Trump Lawsuit Over Tax Returns, Trump Appeals
Judge Victor Marrero of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed Presdent Trump's lawsuit in federal court over the Manhattan District Attorney's efforts to obtain his tax ... -
Will Abandoning the Kurds Result in the Mass Release of Islamic State Fighters?
The White House issued a stunning statement on Oct. 6: Today, President Donald J. Trump spoke with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey by telephone. Turkey will soon be moving forward with its lon... -
Water Wars: Drill, Maybe, Drill
China and Vietnam are poised for confrontation over oil drilling in the southwestern portion of the South China Sea. Vietnam alleges that a Chinese survey vessel, Haiyang Dizhi 8, has been conducting an ... -
The Report, Episode Ten: You're Fired
Today, we released the tenth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which recounts the story Robert Mueller lays out in his 448-page report. This episode covers Attorney General Je... -
The ‘India Question’ in Afghanistan
Editor’s Note: Pakistan and the United States are not the only important outside actors in Afghanistan. India has long courted the government in Kabul, and Islamabad views this potential relationship wit... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Jack Goldsmith on 'In Hoffa’s Shadow'
In 1975, labor union leader and American icon Jimmy Hoffa went missing. Forty-four years after Hoffa’s disappearance, the crime remains one of America's greatest unsolved mysteries. One of those frequent...
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