I. Government Lawyering
- Lisa Monaco, Help Wanted: Custodians for the Rule of Law (Friday, July 28)
II. Trump Campaign – Russia Investigation
- Ambassador (ret.) Keith Harper, The Presidenut’s Pardons Paradox: Granting Them Could Aid the Prosecution (Wednesday, July 26)
- Bob Bauer, If “Love” Knows No Bounds: On Criminal “Intent” and the Scope of Campaign Finance Law (Tuesday, July 25)
- Renato Mariotti, A Former Federal Prosecutor Dissects Kushner’s Statement (Tuesday, July 25)
- Fred Wertheimer, President Trump’s Unsurprising Endorsement of Illegal Solicitation–His 2016 Campaign Repeatedly Violated Ban on Soliciting Foreign Donations (Tuesday, July 25)
- Kate Brannen and Andy Wright, Q&A on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Decision to Subpoena Manafort (Tuesday, July 25)
- Ryan Goodman, Can Jared Kushner Be Impeached? (Monday, July 24)
- Renato Mariotti, How the Prospect of Indictment Could Impact the President’s Decision Making (Monday, July 24)
III. The State Department
- Jane Stromseth, Why the U.S. needs the Office of Global Criminal Justice Led by a Senate-Confirmed Ambassador-at-Large (Wednesday, July 26)
IV. Iraq and Female Foreign Fighters
- Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Fall of Mosul Raises Question: What Should Be Done with Female Foreign Fighters? (Thursday, July 27)
V. Cybersecurity and Election Infrastructure
- Karen Hobert Flynn, As Hackers Target U.S. Voting Machines, We Need Leaders Who’ll Put Country Over Party (Thursday, July 27)
VI. Norms Watch
- Hannah Ryan, Norms Watch: Democracy, the Trump Administration, and Reactions to It (July 21-July 28) (Friday, July 28)
VII. Attorney General Jeff Sessions
- Steve Vladeck, The Three Sessions Succession Scenarios (Tuesday, July 25)
VIII. The Transgender Military Service Ban
- Bishop Garrison, We’ve Been Here Before: Discriminating Against Those Who Volunteer to Serve (Wednesday, July 26)
IX. Islamophobia and Countering Violent Extremism
- Faiza Patel, Margot Adams and Emily Hockett, Defeated Anti-Muslim Amendment a Sign of Trump’s Normalizing of Islamophobia (Wednesday, July 26)
- Michael German and Faiza Patel, Fighting Terrorism Without Dividing Us: Why Congress Must Look Beyond Countering Violent Extremism (Thursday, July 27)
X. The Authorization for Use of Military Force
- Heather Brandon and Scott Johnston, Takeaways from this Week’s House AUMF Hearing—on Authorizing War Against ISIS (Thursday, July 27)
XI. Authoritarianism and Emergency Powers
- Rachel Kleinfeld, We Are Already in a State of Emergency (Friday, July 28)
XII. Yemen
- Will Picard, The Danger of a Grand Bargain: The Wrong Peace Deal Could Mean Endless War in Yemen (Tuesday, July 25)
- Stephen Seche and Eric Pelofsky, Yemen: The View from Riyadh, (Sunday, July 23)
XIII. National Security Council
- Kate Brannen and Jenna McLaughlin, Top Middle East Advisor is Removed from the National Security Council (Thursday, July 28)
