On Sept. 16, a grand jury working with the office of Special Counsel John Durham indicted lawyer Michael Sussmann on a charge of making false statements to the FBI during the
2016 presidential election. The indictment alleges that Sussmann lied about his client in a 2016 meeting with an FBI official about former President Trump and Russia. [...]
President Biden announced that the United States will share highly sensitive nuclear submarine technology with Australia, according to the Washington Post. Along with the
United Kingdom, the countries will form a three-way defense alliance called AUKUS, a move experts say is a direct challenge to China in the Indo-Pacific. [...]
On Sept. 15, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the Wikimedia Foundation that challenged parts
of the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) warrantless surveillance program of Americans’ international internet communications. [...]
Today, we’re bringing you another episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem. In a 2018 Senate hearing, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded
to a question about how his company makes money with a line that quickly became famous: “Senator, we sell ads.” And indeed, when you open up your Facebook page—or [...]
In the final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a handful of African governments raised their hands to host Afghan refugees. Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, and the self-declared
independent state of Somaliland offered to welcome anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand refugees into their country. [...]
In June, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga, a case that arose from the covert surveillance of Muslim communities in Southern
California as part of an FBI operation more than a decade ago. The suit was first brought by three men who claim they were targets of the operation and who seek evidence [...]
One in 500 people in the United States have died of the coronavirus, according to the Washington Post. The U.S. coronavirus death toll reached 663,000 this week, and infections
show the virus’s disproportionate impact on minority communities. Marcella Nunez-Smith, chair of President Biden’s COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, said of [...]
There is a tendency in discussions of constituent power to focus on the groups involved, the subjectivities produced and the discursive significance of the events themselves.
Revolts are full of conflict and violence, they pull down sovereign orders and generate constitutional structures. [...]
How did Russian imperial ambitions and expansionism eastward change over time? Joining me on this episode is Chris Miller, author of We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to
East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin. Chris is a history professor at the Fletcher School and Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. [...]
I was a guest on the Compounding Curiosity podcast, a new show founded by a ChinaTalk fan that focuses on ASEAN, and we had a halfway decent conversation! Hope you enjoy. Click
here to listen to ChinaTalk in your favorite podcast app. [...]
