For New York Times Books I wrote about the ghost stories collected by the Federal Writers Project during their interviews with the formerly enslaved.
nytimes.com/2022/10/28/boo…

.Lawfare is now on Mastodon: mastodon.social/@lawfare

Paging Ryan Scoville — how's this for subnational diplomacy?

Good mail day Stephanie DeGooyer

my culture is not your costume

The Justice Department filed a premotion letter identifying global issues before Special Master Judge Raymond J. Dearie, to review before he begins his scan of seized materials from the Mar-a-Lago search.

On site with summary from Tyler McBrien:
lawfareblog.com/justice-depart…

Where in the world is Anna Bower? Well, Pickens, South Carolina.

Another rollicking dispatch from Lawfare's roving Fulton County correspondent. Out moments ago in Lawfare:

lawfareblog.com/mark-meadows-c…

Between Anna Bower's coverage of all things GA (and related) and Roger Parloff's coverage of the Oath Keeper trial, Lawfare is matching or exceeding the work of many legacy outlets.

BREAKING: Rep. Jayapal withdraws statement withdrawing Ukraine letter, says that this too was released by staff without vetting.

Ahead of the midterms, Tyler McBrien sat down with Rachel Orey and Grace Gordon to talk about how elections are fundamentally a human enterprise, why poll workers are so important, and more.

Read the article via Lawfare.
lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcas…

“As a concept, abolition-democracy captures something vital and important: that democratic life cannot flourish as long as it is bound by and shaped around hierarchies of status” ⁦b-boy bouiebaisse⁩ nytimes.com/2022/10/25/opi…

'Elections are a human enterprise – they rely on individuals conducting their job with integrity to function.'

Listen to my conversation with Rachel Orey & Grace Gordon from Bipartisan Policy Center on why poll workers are so important, on Lawfare pod:

lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcas…

Setting up a fake think tank? Nice try China, but everyone knows that all think tanks are fake

Been waiting patiently for my first climate change newsletter from Semafor. Guess they were waiting for the right sponsor to come along.

On this morning's Lawfare podcast, I spoke to Ilana Krill and Seamus Hughes from the Program On Extremism about the violent extremist threat facing US critical infrastructure—and how to counter it:

lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcas…

'At what point did police officers come to resemble Rambo more than Andy Griffith?'

Film review from Tyler McBrien: lawfareblog.com/view-riotsvill…

A lot of you talking about your issues with truss and not enough about your own TRUSSt issues smh

The Biden administration has rolled out a new policy governing drone strikes outside active war zones. On today's Lawfare podcast, Charlie Savage, Bobby Chesney, and I discussed: play.acast.com/s/60518a52f69a…