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Are China and Iran meddling in US elections? It’s complicated.
In The News
This spring, the Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua posted a roughly two-minute video titled “Once Upon a Virus” on social media, including on official Chinese government ac...
By Carrie Cordero
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Lawmakers question DHS crackdown tactics in protest cities
In The News
The military tactics utilized by Homeland Security officers to control protesters in Portland, Oregon, and other cities are being decried by congressional lawmakers and invest...
By Carrie Cordero
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Intelligence Transparency and Foreign Threats to Elections
In the midst of a global pandemic, historic unemployment, a summer of civic unrest and violence, and a highly charged political environment, the United States faces another lo...
By Cole Stevens
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As Congress pushes ‘piecemeal’ AI bills, two lawmakers press for cohesive strategy
In The News
As anxiety over Chinese advancements in emerging technologies spikes in Washington, Congress is scrambling to pass legislation to shore up America’s position in the global rac...
By Martijn Rasser
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‘It’s not good for our democracy’: Calls grow for federal officers to shed military-style uniforms
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As authorities crack down on protests in Portland, Ore., military leaders, lawmakers and former government officials have intensified calls for federal officers to shed the ca...
By Carrie Cordero
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DHS leaders, filling jobs on temporary basis, carry out Trump agenda
The Department of Homeland Security, at the center of some of the administration's most controversial and political actions from immigration restrictions to an aggressive resp...
By Carrie Cordero
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Trump Threatens to Send Federal Law Enforcement Forces to More Cities
President Trump plans to deploy federal law enforcement to Chicago and threatened on Monday to send agents to other major cities — all controlled by Democrats. Governors and ...
By Carrie Cordero
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Why Jewish Americans are shifting position on Israel
"I've had people tell me, ‘Things have shifted more in the past two weeks than I’ve seen them shift in the past ten years,’” Emily Mayer said. Mayer is the co-founder and poli...
By Ilan Goldenberg
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Mattis says Trump ‘tries to divide us’ in stinging rebuke
Jim Mattis, a retired general and former defense secretary, castigated Donald Trump as an immature president making “a mockery” of the constitution, as he joined a chorus of r...
By Richard Fontaine
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Americans losing faith in elections as Trump discredits voting systems
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The diatribes are as unnerving and unrelenting as they are untrue: An incumbent president warning that the nation’s voting systems are cauldrons for fraud and ripe for rigging...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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As he seeks to punish China, Trump faces criticism at home over his own attacks on democratic values
The setting was the Rose Garden. The topic was China. And for President Trump, the goal of the White House event Friday was to condemn the communist nation as a threat to demo...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS, CERL, and APPC Announce Collaboration on Protecting the Integrity of the 2020 Election against Foreign Interference
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law (CERL) and the Annenberg Public Policy Center (...
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Surveillance-tech restrictions stripped from Uyghur bill could end up in NDAA
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The Senate’s passage of the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act was the culmination of a months-long effort to hold Beijing accountable for a sweeping crackdown against its minorit...
By Martijn Rasser
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Gathering intelligence during a pandemic
In The News
The Intelligence Community by many accounts was on to the possibility of a pandemic like this one for a long time. Well, now that it’s here, what effect might the pandemic be ...
By Martijn Rasser
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CNAS Launches New Initiative: America and the Post-Pandemic World
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) today announced the launch of a major initiative on America and the Post-Pandemic World. Leveraging CNAS’ unique multidisciplinar...
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As Trump faces heat on coronavirus response, Republicans try to elevate China’s role in domestic political debate
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For months, national Republicans hoping to wrest back control of the House this fall have targeted first-term Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), hitting him on his vote to impeach Pre...
By Richard Fontaine
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Coronavirus rattles America's national security priesthood
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If the U.S. foreign policy establishment were a high school cafeteria, the popular kids would be the terrorism and nuclear weapons analysts. And the global health specialists ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump’s ‘Disaster Diplomacy’ Has So Far Had Few Results
As the coronavirus raced across the globe earlier this year, the Trump administration offered assistance to a pair of longtime American enemies, Iran and North Korea. The resp...
By Richard Fontaine
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How the Pandemic Will End
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Three months ago, no one knew that SARS-CoV-2 existed. Now the virus has spread to almost every country, infecting at least 446,000 people whom we know about, and many more wh...
By Ilan Goldenberg & Richard Danzig
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When fighting bureaucracy means disbanding a pandemics office
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When PBS journalist Yamiche Alcindor recently asked President Donald Trump about his decision to disband the National Security Council’s office for pandemics, Mr. Trump said t...
By Loren DeJonge Schulman
