David Priess, Lawfare

David Priess

Lawfare

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Past:
  • Lawfare
  • Washington Post
  • Foreign Policy

Past articles by David:

The Chatter Podcast: The Movie “Casablanca” in Myth and Reality with Meredith Hindley

This week, David Priess chatted with Meredith Hindley about Casablanca, her advocacy for the humanities and history, American and French resistance intelligence operations in French Morocco and more. → Read More

The Chatter Podcast: Security and Art with Laurie Anderson

This week, Shane Harris talks with pioneering multi-media artist Laurie Anderson. A retrospective of her work, called “The Weather,” is showing at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Several of Anderson’s works explore themes of security, terrorism, and surveillance; her piece “Habeus Corpus” is a monumental scale video and sculpture installation about Mohammed el → Read More

The Chatter Podcast: From National Security Blogger to Editor of Rolling Stone with Noah Shachtman

This week on Chatter, Shane Harris talks with Noah Shachtman, the editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone. Before he took over the world’s most iconic music publication, Shachtman was a national security journalist, co-founder the highly-regarded blog Danger Room, and writer for Wired magazine. Later, he ran the news division of Foreign Policy and then became the top editor of The → Read More

Come Work With Lawfare, As Our Digital Media Specialist!

We are looking for a highly experienced, energetic, creative, and motivated full-time digital media specialist. → Read More

Come Work For Lawfare—As Our Managing Editor

The Lawfare Institute—publisher of information and insight at the intersection of national security, law, and policy—seeks a full-time managing editor based in Washington, DC, for its flagship Lawfare online publication. The past few years have been a period of immense growth and transformation for Lawfare. We are looking for a highly experienced, motivated, and creative → Read More

Come Work With Lawfare, As Our Bookkeeping Office Manager!

We are hiring! → Read More

Can Trump Be Stopped?

President Trump’s incitement of insurrection stands out as the worst presidential behavior in America’s two century history. How can he be kept from doing more damage with only two weeks left in his term? → Read More

Come Work With Us—As Our New Research Assistant

The Lawfare Institute—publisher of information and insight at the intersection of national security, law and policy—seeks a highly organized, research-experienced university or graduate-program graduate for a full-time research assistant position. Work will be performed virtually for the duration of COVID-19 restrictions and, after that time, in Washington, D.C. near Dupont → Read More

The Powerful Norm of Accepting the Results of a Presidential Election

All previous presidential candidates, even those with understandable objections to the outcome, have accepted the results of their elections. What about this year? → Read More

Launching Lawfare Live!

Join us for special live and interactive events starting next week by becoming a patron. → Read More

Public Disclosure of Presidential Illnesses: The Discouraging History

History provides plenty of reason to believe that the public will not receive thorough updates about President Trump’s health following his diagnosis with COVID-19. → Read More

Presidents have often deceived the public about their illnesses

The White House has tried to hide the truth about presidential health in the past, long before Trump. → Read More

Publishing ‘After Trump’

Why we published "After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency," the latest book by Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith. → Read More

Our 'Collusion Reading Diary' is Now a Lawfare E-book

A new Lawfare Institute e-book, “A Collusion Reading Diary” is now available on Kindle. After the Senate Intelligence Committee released the final volume of its bipartisan report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, our team read through the 966-page document and serially generated summaries on each section of the report. This “reading diary,” which was originally → Read More

Lawfare Live! A Peek Inside the President's Daily Brief

Register now for a unique live discussion of briefing intelligence to the president, from men and women who have done it, on Thursday, August 27. → Read More

Come Work with Us—An Update to the Associate Editor Posting

Last month, I announced that we were accepting applications for a new associate editor at Lawfare. I write today to announce a slight administrative change to that opening. We will now hire the position through the Brookings Institution rather than independently through the Lawfare Institute. This means that the role is dual-hatted as an associate editor at Lawfare and a → Read More

Come Work With Us—As Our New Associate Editor!

We’re hiring a new associate editor! → Read More

Come Work With Us—As Our New Associate Editor!

We’re hiring a new associate editor! → Read More

How Do You Spy When the World is Shut Down?

The novel coronavirus presents significant challenges to the mission and operations of every government agency and department—and the Central Intelligence Agency is no exception. → Read More

Come Work for Lawfare—as Our Deputy Managing Editor!

The Lawfare Institute—publisher of information and insight at the intersection of national security, law, and policy—seeks highly organized, motivated, and experienced candidates for a full-time deputy managing editor. → Read More