We hosted our second A Road Less Traveled event of the 2025-26 academic year on Friday, October 24. We were honored to speak with: Reema Dodin Chief of Staff, Senator Brian Schatz; Former: Deputy Assistant to the President and Senate Liaison for the White House Office of Legislative Affairs; Deputy Chief of Staff, Senator Dick Durbin Event…

All The President’s Power: What’s Left of Checks and Balances?  Event Details:  Wednesday, October 22, 2025 1:10–2:25 p.m.   With a series of recent decisions, the US Supreme Court has invested the president and executive branch with a level of power and autonomy unprecedented in American history.  From the scope of immunity granted in Trump v.…

  Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning are increasingly vital to the conduct of national security, as countries like the United States seek to harness these tools to ensure their own efficiency, global competitiveness, and military superiority. Yet their advent threatens to exacerbate an existing paradox within our democracy: some of the most…

A special episode of The Just Security Podcast, co-hosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security   Since early September, President Trump has ordered the U.S. military to conduct multiple lethal strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea suspected of drug trafficking, resulting in at least 21 deaths. These unprecedented military actions raise critical questions about the…

Our ’25-26 Road Less Traveled event series is here! To start the year off, we spoke with: Gideon Maltz Chief Executive Officer, Tent Partnership for Refugees; Former: Chief of Staff to the Administrator, USAID; Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, U.S. Mission to the United Nations Event Details Monday, September 29 1:15-2:15 p.m. Vanderbilt Hall Room…

  Over the past several days, the Trump administration has taken increasingly drastic steps in response to protest activity and unrest in Los Angeles — including federalizing 4,000 National Guard troops and sending hundreds of Marines, against the objections of California’s state and local leadership.  As events unfold on the ground in LA, and in…

  The State Department has released a reorganization plan that would usher in significant changes to the way the United States conducts its diplomacy and foreign assistance, at a time of considerable geopolitical change. Proposals by the Trump administration include eliminating or restructuring a number of the Department’s longstanding functions, dissolving and/or folding USAID into…