A selection of our work and experts featured in print, television, radio, and online.
David Levine in InsideNoVa: Younger Youngkin Voting Case Should Be Referred To Prosecutors
In this month’s election, Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin’s 17-year-old son tried to cast a ballot not once, but twice, despite being too young to vote, according to Fairfax County officials. His failure to cast a ballot not only reinforced the security a [...]
Zack Cooper in Washington Examiner: How to Tame China
The various shortages caused by problems with the global supply chain have provided the latest boost in momentum for an increasingly popular idea in Washington: making the American economy less dependent on China. What policymakers refer to as “sele [...]
David Levine in the Fulcrum: The Biggest Threat to 2021 Elections Is Conflating Election Rigging with Election Vulnerabilities
While cable news and statehouses are focused on the "big lie" following the 2020 presidential election, a more insidious (and immediate) threat awaits the jurisdictions conducting elections this week: the weaponization of real vulnerabilities in ele [...]
Kristine Berzina for Carnegie Europe: Is Europe’s Energy Crisis Self-Inflicted?
Europe is facing soaring gas prices. To avoid further crises, the EU should speed up its transition to renewables, reduce dependence on Russia, and formulate a coherent energy policy. Europe learned from the 2006 and 2009 gas cut-offs and put in pl [...]
Bret Schafer on NPR: How China Spreads Misinformation Around the World
Early last year when U.S. health experts looked into the possibility that COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China — either accidentally or on purpose — Chinese propaganda-makers responded. They amplified rumors that the virus came from the United States [...]
Bryce Barros in Foreign Policy: Cleaning Up the Mess of Post-Trump China Strategy
A new book points to how best to handle alienated allies in a growing struggle. In late 2017, I studied abroad at a Chinese think tank, the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), while enrolled as a master’s candidate at Texas A& [...]
Josh Rudolph Discusses the Pandora Papers on C-SPAN
Alliance for Securing Democracy Malign Finance Fellow Josh Rudolph discusses the “Pandora Papers” and the federal legislative response. [...]
Kristine Berzina Discusses High Gas Prices in Europe and Gazprom on BBC
U.K. and European natural gas prices have been swinging, but they abruptly decreased as Russian President Putin suggested Gazprom may increase its gas supply to Europe. Senior Fellow Kristine Berzina joined BBC Newshour to discuss. Listen at 18:18 [...]
Laura Thornton in The Hill: Foreign COVID Misinformation Helps Fuel Public Health Skepticism
The United States has entered a new and aggravating phase of COVID-19, with plentiful vaccines — which poorer nations could only dream of — but a stubborn constituency unwilling to embrace the cure. While much of the disinformation originates domest [...]
Josh Rudolph in Just Security: Closing Pandora’s Box
Leaked Papers Expose Need for US to Act on Enablers of Dirty Money The U.S. government should respond to the Pandora Papers – an investigation by a group of news media outlets based on 11.9 million private financial records – with sweeping and forc [...]
Washington Post Exclusive: China Is Exploiting Search Engines to Push Propaganda about Origins of Covid-19, ASD Study Finds
Searching about Fort Detrick? You’ll likely find Chinese propaganda, an ASD study finds. Chinese government officials and state media are exploiting gaps in search results on powerful engines like Google, YouTube and Bing to advance conspiracy theo [...]
Josh Rudolph on PRI’s The World: Dismantling Offshore Secrecy
As revelations from the “Pandora Papers” continue to rock the world of high finance, investigators are pointing to ways the offshore accounting system can be reformed and made more transparent. Maíra Martini, a money-laundering expert with Transpare [...]