“Really the best day since he got elected,” said Kellyanne Conway, the president’s counselor, about a day on which 400 pages dropped into the public’s lap describing relentless presidential misconduct and serial engagements between his campaign and a foreign actor. [read post]

Nader Kabbani, Brookings senior fellow and director of research at Brookings Doha Center, will moderate a conversation with Joseph Bahout, director at the American University of Beiruit’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs; Lina Khatib, director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House and Michele Dunne, director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. [read post]

Nader Kabbani, director of research at Brookings Doha Center, will moderate a conversation between Joseph Bahout, non-resident scholar for the Middle East Program at Carnegie, Nasser Saidi, former minister of economy and trade and minister of industry in Lebanon, and Rami Khouri, professor of journalism at the American University of Beirut. [read post]

Over the last month, on our New Republic: Security States newsfeed, we rolled out a series designed to explain why fairly allocating the costs of software deficiencies between software makers and users is so critical to addressing the growing problem of vulnerability-ridden code—and how such a regime will require questioning some of our deep-seated beliefs about the very nature of software security. [read post]