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• Commentary
  • Foreign Affairs
  • February 6, 2020
  The Digital Dictators

  Rapid technological change will likely produce a cat-and-mouse dynamic as citizens and governments race to gain the upper hand....

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Erica Frantz & Joseph Wright

• Podcast
  • February 4, 2020
  Working Advance for the U.S. State Department

  When American diplomats travel abroad and meet with foreign leaders, who works behind the scenes to make sure everything runs smoothly? What negotiations go into preparing for...

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Price B. Floyd

• Podcast
  • January 31, 2020
  Richard Fontaine Discusses U.S. Strategy, Iran, and John McCain's Legacy

  Richard Fontaine, CEO of CNAS, joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss conditions for military intervention, the future of the Iran crisis, and what he learned...

  By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend

• Podcast
  • January 28, 2020
  Building the World’s Biggest Budget

  What do the Pentagon's decisions about military spending say about our priorities as a nation? What goes into the DoD's $700 billion budget each year? Former Pentagon official...

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • January 28, 2020
  Man, I Feel Like A Woman

  Erin, Radha and Loren welcome three special guests for their annual “manniversary” episode: Hayes Brown from Buzzfeed, Tommy Vietor of Pod Save the World, and Maj. Gen. Patric...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman

• Commentary
  • San Francisco Chronicle
  • January 24, 2020
  The AI regulation wave is coming: Industry should ride it

  America’s artificial intelligence industry is increasingly likely to face government regulations that could blunt innovation. There is a perfect storm brewing on Capitol Hill,...

  By Martijn Rasser

• Podcast
  • January 21, 2020
  Working National Security on John McCain’s Presidential Campaign

  Richard Fontaine spent years advising leading figures in American foreign policy, but working for the late Sen. John McCain was unlike anything he had experienced before. Now ...

  By Richard Fontaine & Ilan Goldenberg

• Commentary
  • CNN
  • January 13, 2020
  Congress has to figure out whether Trump's four embassy claim is real

  The targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, carried with it significant potential to serve as a catalyst for a br...

  By Carrie Cordero

• Video
  • January 8, 2020
  What was the White House strategy on Iran?

  While President Trump seems to be standing down on further military action against Iran, the question of ‘why’ the White House isn’t retaliating remains. Loren DeJonge Schulma...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman

• Commentary
  • Foreign Policy
  • December 24, 2019
  The United States Needs a Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

  In the coming years, artificial intelligence will dramatically affect every aspect of human life. AI—the technologies that simulate intelligent behavior in machines—will chang...

  By Martijn Rasser

• Commentary
  • Breaking Defense
  • December 23, 2019
  America Desperately Needs AI Talent, Immigrants Included

  The United States is engaged in a global technology competition in artificial intelligence. But while the US government has shown commitment to developing AI systems that will...

  By Megan Lamberth

• Video
  • December 19, 2019
  CNAS: Bold Ideas for National Security

  This year, CNAS experts brought bold ideas and bipartisan cooperation to the national security conversation. In 2020, the CNAS team will continue tackling the biggest security...

  By Susanna V. Blume, Kara Frederick, Kayla M. Williams, Loren DeJonge Schulman, Richard Fontaine, Kristine Lee, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Ely Ratner, Paul Scharre, Elizabeth Rosenberg & Carrie Cordero

• Commentary
  • Just Security
  • December 9, 2019
  Holding DHS Accountable for a Child’s Death in the Custody of Border Patrol

  ProPublica published an extensive investigative report last week detailing the circumstances surrounding the death of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez. The teenag...

  By Carrie Cordero, Heidi Li Feldman & Chimène Keitner

• Commentary
  • The American Interest
  • November 8, 2019
  The Enduring Relevance of Reagan’s Westminster Speech

  Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of three essays, commissioned by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, examining the legacy of Reagan’s Westmin...

  By Richard Fontaine

• Commentary
  • Defense One
  • November 7, 2019
  National Security Is Made of People

  For several years, members of Congress and senior defense officials have worried, dramatically and out loud, about the state of military readiness, devoting bipartisan harangu...

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman

• Commentary
  • Just Security
  • October 25, 2019
  Assessing the Legal Landscape of Family Separation in the Immigration Context

  Former Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen was interviewed this week as part of FORTUNE’s “Most Powerful Women Summit” in Washington. Nielsen, who seemed nonplusse...

  By Carrie Cordero, Heidi Li Feldman & Chimène Keitner

• • Commentary
  • Foreign Affairs
  • October 15, 2019
  The Nonintervention Delusion

  Richard Fontaine addresses the most frequently expressed concerns about U.S. military interventions and concludes that the use of military force will remain a key component of...

  By Richard Fontaine

• Commentary
  • Foreign Affairs
  • September 9, 2019
  Great-Power Competition Is Washington’s Top Priority—But Not the Public’s

  For all the acrimony in Washington today, the city’s foreign policy establishment is settling on a rare bipartisan consensus: that the world has entered a new era of great-pow...

  By Richard Fontaine

• Commentary
  • Lawfare
  • August 28, 2019
  How to Reform IEEPA

  Over the weekend, President Trump cited a 1977 statute, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as providing the legal authority he would need to carry throug...

  By Peter Harrell

• Podcast
  • August 27, 2019
  Women in National Security: Emma Moore

  Emma Moore joins the CNAS Women in National Security podcast mini-series on human capital to discuss changing the requirements for national service....

  By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Emma Moore