Jen Patja Howell

Last night, U.S. forces in Northern Syria killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi  who until yesterday was the current leader of ISIS. It was an operation…

We talk a lot on this show about the responsibility of major tech platforms when it comes to content moderation. But what about problems the platforms…

This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare senior editor, Roger Parloff! They talked through some of the week’s biggest national security news,…

Last month, the New York Times ran a story about YouTube videos promoting tourism to China and promoting messages sympathetic to the Chinese government. The…

Nearly six months have passed since the Taliban’s sudden takeover of Afghanistan. As the country faces down a failing economy and looming humanitarian catastrophe, the…

Late last week and early this week saw fighting between Islamic State fighters and Syrian democratic forces after the Islamic State attempted a jailbreak of…

As we’ve discussed on the show, online advertisements are the shifting, unstable sand on which the contemporary internet is built. And one of the many,…

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Lawfare managing editor, Jacob Schulz! They talked through some of the week’s biggest national security news, including:…

What if we declared an end to the costly system of how we classify national security information in the United States? Oona Hathaway, the Gerard…

Over the last year, our national dialogue about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has become ever more focused on politics, congressional investigations and criminal prosecutions….