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The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfaremedia.org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
- The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Ask Lawfare Anything: August 2026
Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg, and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee took questions from Lawfare…
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Lawfare Daily: Censorship Incentives with Julia Curlee and Mike Feinberg
Lawfare Public Service Julia Curlee has written an article on the incentives facing intelligence community members when they are purged from government…
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Lawfare Daily: Trump, Kim, and the Future of Korea
Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Andrew Yeo, senior fellow and the Korea Foundation Chair at the Brookings Institution’s Center for…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug 21
In a conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Eric Columbus to discuss…
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Lawfare Archive: Much Ado About Coups with Naunihal Singh
From September 13, 2023: On August 30, soldiers and high-ranking officers of the Armed Forces of Gabon seized control of government buildings and communication…
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Lawfare Archive: The Golden Dome Missile Defense Program
From April 11, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Tom Karako, the Director of the Missile Defense Program at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Matt Abrams on Trust and the Migration to the Digital Age
Matt Abrams, technologist, investor, and co-founder of $1 Billion for Trust, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas…
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Lawfare Daily: What’s So Special About a Special Grand Jury?
The Justice Department has empaneled a special grand jury in Washington, D.C., according to a new report from the Washington Post. But what, exactly, is so…
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Lawfare Daily: The Complicated Past and Present of Ukraine’s Relations with Poland
In this episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Ukrainian historian Yaroslav Hrytsak to discuss the history of Ukrainian-Polish…
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Lawfare Daily: Vinh Nguyen, Elham Tabassi, and Kat Duffy on How to Design a Better AI Regulator
Lawfare Senior Editor Kate Klonick is joined by three guests to discuss their recent article for the Council on Foreign Relations on the FINRA-style AI…
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Lawfare Daily: Trans and Indispensable in the Trump White House
Julia Curlee was a long-time CIA officer; she served as Vice President Mike Pence’s briefer for more than a year; and she was a senior NSC official when the…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, August 14
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff to discuss…
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Lawfare Archive: The Return of the Syrian Civil War
From December 3, 2024: Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and Georgetown professor Daniel Byman sits down with Charles Lister, Director of Syria and Countering…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: AI Consciousness with Anil Seth
Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, joins…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The "Sloop John Stamos" Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Alan Rozenshtein, Michael Feinberg, and Loren Voss to talk through the week’s big news in national…
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Lawfare Daily: Purges and Power Plays in Domestic Ukrainian Politics
Weeks after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky fired Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the fallout is still reshaping Kyiv's political landscape. Lawfare…
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Lawfare Daily: Trump's New Plan for Gaza, with Joel Braunold
Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Contributing Editor Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the Center Project, for the latest installment of their…
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Lawfare Daily: Grokipedia’s Deafening Silence with Renée DiResta
On August 6, Lawfare Senior Editor Kate Klonick sat down for a live discussion on Substack with Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor at Georgetown’s…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, August 7
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff to…
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Lawfare Archive: Guantanamo, Immigration, and the U.S. Military
From February 20, 2025: On Jan. 29, President Trump ordered the expansion of facilities at Guantanamo Bay to hold migrants being deported from the United…
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Lawfare Archive: Israel: Divided at Home and at War Yet Again
From March 28, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Natan Sachs, the Director of the Middle East Program of the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Daniel Kokotajlo on AI 2040: Plan A
Daniel Kokotajlo, former OpenAI researcher and executive director of the AI Futures Project, joins Kevin Frazier, Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Live from Mom’s Basement” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his colleagues Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee, and Lawfare Contributing…
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Lawfare Daily: The Court Against the Courts with Steve Vladeck and Kate Klonick
On August 5, Lawfare Senior Editor Kate Klonick sat down for a live discussion on Substack with Georgetown Law Professor Steve Vladeck to discuss his…
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Lawfare Daily: The Rise of the Military-Technology Complex with Bernice Yeung
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Bernice Yeung, the managing editor at the U.C. Berkeley School of Journalism…
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Lawfare Daily: Ukraine, Iran, Taiwan, and the Short War Illusion
Some countries are susceptible to believing that with the right military strategy, they can accomplish their goals with a quick war. It's called the "Short War…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 31
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Georgetown Law Professor Peter Harrell and Senior Editors Eric…
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Lawfare Archive: Jonathan Zittrain on Controlling AI Agents
From October 17, 2024: Jonathan Zittrain, Faculty Director of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas…
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Lawfare Archive: The Fate of Ukraine
From February 26, 2025: On Feb. 24, Fiona Hill (Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe), Constanze Stelzenmüller, (Director at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Hugging Ukraine” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Tyler McBrien, Anastasiia Lapatina, and Kevin Frazier to talk through a couple of the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Google's Kent Walker on Regulating Frontier AI
Kent Walker, President of Global Affairs at Google and Alphabet, joins Kevin Frazier to discuss Google's proposal for a two-pronged approach to AI governance…
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Lawfare Daily: How Our Growing Software Dependence Threatens National Security
Lawfare Book Review Editor Jonathan Cedarbaum sits down with the Soufan Center’s Executive Director Colin Clarke and Senior Research Fellow Chad Serena, to…
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Lawfare Daily: Dispatches from the 2026 Aspen Security Forum
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien brings you a series of edited conversations from the 2026 Aspen Security Forum, where he sat down…
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Lawfare Daily: Investigating Atrocities in Post-Assad Syria
On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett speaks with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, a professor at University of Minnesota Law School and a Commissioner on…
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July Minipod: Will the Supreme Court Ever Revisit the Presidential Immunity Decision?
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talks to Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff about whether the Supreme Court…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 24
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff discussed a hearing over the subpoenas sent to New York…
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Lawfare Archive: The U.S. Bombing of Yemen and the Houthi Response
From March 21, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Gregory Johnsen, a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States…
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Lawfare Archive: Making Sense of the Doppelganger Disinformation Operation, with Thomas Rid
From October 16, 2024: In early September, the U.S. Justice Department released a trove of information about the Russian influence campaign known as…
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Lawfare Daily: Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan Discuss Their Bestseller, ‘Regime Change’
New York Times White House Correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan speak with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff about their recent bestseller…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “(Deep State) Friends We Make Along the Way” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee and Senior Editors Eric Columbus and Molly Roberts to talk through the…
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Lawfare Daily: Can State Laws Protect Against Misuse of the National Guard?
On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sits down with Liza Goitein and Joseph Nunn of the Liberty and Security Program at the Brennan Center, and…
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Ask Lawfare Anything: July 2026
On this month's Ask Lawfare Anything, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Foreign Policy Editors Dan Byman and Dana Stuster to answer…
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Lawfare Daily: Inside Zelensky’s Disastrous Decision to Fire Ukraine’s Minister of Defense
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Francis Farrell, a front line reporter at the Kyiv Independent, about the Ukrainian…
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Lawfare Daily: How To Make a Patriot, with Fabian Hoffman
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Fabian Hoffman, a senior research fellow at the Programme for Ukraine and…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 17
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Roger…
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Lawfare Archive: A Chilling Violation of Press Freedoms in Marion, Kansas
From August 25, 2023: Earlier this month, there was big trouble in little Marion, Kansas, where an entire police department raided the offices of the Marion…
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Lawfare Archive: Should the U.S. Sanction the ICC, with Nema Milaninia
From February 3, 2025: Nema Milaninia, a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Live: Breaking Down President Trump's Primetime Address on Elections
On July 17 at 11am ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Michael Feinberg and Molly Roberts and Lawfare Contributing…
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Lawfare Daily: Consent in the Age of AI
Lawfare Senior Editor Renée DiResta sits down with Senior Editor Kate Klonick and Elissa Redmiles, an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Hip to Be a Square State” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his colleagues Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee, and Lawfare Contributing…
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Lawfare Daily: What Do the Russians Actually Think About the War?
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Maria Snegovaya, a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the Center for Strategic…
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Lawfare Daily: AI Targeting Systems Are Coming—But Not as Fast as You Think
On this episode, Senior Editor Kate Klonick speaks with Steve Feldstein, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about his recent…
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Lawfare Daily: Taking Stock of the Ukraine-Russia Talks
Lawfare Contributing Editor Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Eric Ciaramella, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Samuel…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 10
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Roger…
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Lawfare Archive: How CISA Is Working to Protect the Election
From October 30, 2024: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken a leading role in coordinating efforts to secure the 2024…
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Lawfare Archive: What French Politics Means for Europe and the United States
From April 10, 2025: On today's episode, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett spoke with Tara Varma, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the latest in…
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Lawfare Daily: Prophecy, Prediction, and Power with Carissa Véliz
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Carissa Véliz, an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Scoot Over” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Editor in Chief and co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes and Senior Editors Anna Bower and Michael Feinberg…
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Lawfare Daily: Nuclear Weapons in the Age of AI, with Joshua Keating
For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Vox Senior Correspondent Joshua Keating to discuss his special new series on how…
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Lawfare Daily: The Military, Elections, and the Law
Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes talks with Executive Editor Natalie Orpett and Senior Editors Loren Voss and Molly Roberts about the limits the Constitution…