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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
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 30
In a live conversation on May 30, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Scott Anderson, and Roger Parloff to…
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Lawfare Archive: Chinese Property Ownership and National Security
From May 21, 2024: Across the country, state lawmakers are joining the effort to address the perceived national security threat from China by passing a number…
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Lawfare Archive: Prosecuting the Gaza War Before the International Criminal Court with Chimène Keitner
From May 23, 2024: For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Chimène Keitner, a Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and…
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Lawfare Daily: Josh Batson on Understanding How and Why AI Works
Josh Batson, a research scientist at Anthropic, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the Texas Law and Senior Editor at Lawfare, to break down…
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Escalation, Episode Three: Us vs. Them
Today, it’s Episode 3 of Escalation, our latest narrative series co-hosted by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina…
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Lawfare Daily: Minna Ålander on Finland, NATO, and the Russian Threat
Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Minna Ålander, an Associate Fellow at the Chatham House Europe Programme, to discuss Russia's…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Hi, Robot!” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with the AI-oriented Lawfare Senior Editors Alan Rozenshtein and Kevin Frazier to talk through the week’s top AI-focused news…
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Lawfare Daily: Jonah Bromwich on New York vs. Donald J. Trump
It’s been nearly one year since Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts in Manhattan criminal court. Lawfare Senior Editor sits down with New York Times…
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Escalation, Episode Two: No Guarantees
In April, we ran Episode One of our narrative podcast series Escalation on this feed. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for the next few weeks, we’ll be…
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May Minipod: Combating Corruption in the Trump Administration
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes about the potential crimes…
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Lawfare Daily: The Public Integrity Section, Threats, and Criminal Contempt with John Keller
John Keller, now a partner at Walden, Macht & Haran, channeled his experience as the former Chief of the Public Integrity Section at the Department of…
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Lawfare Archive: Domestic Deployment of the National Guard
From May 3, 2024: Over the past several years, governors around the country from both political parties have used their respective National Guards for an…
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Lawfare Archive: Matthew Tokson on Government Purchases of Private Data
From December 4, 2023: Is the Fourth Amendment doing any work anymore? In a forthcoming article entitled “Government Purchases of Private Data,” Matthew…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 22
In a live conversation on May 22, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Quinta Jurecic and Roger Parloff and Lawfare…
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Lawfare Daily: Phil Reitinger and Komal Bazaz Smith on Civil Society and Strengthening Internet Security
Global Cyber Alliance’s President and CEO Phil Reitinger and Chief Business Officer Komal Bazaz Smith discuss with Justin Sherman critical cybersecurity issues…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Bridle and Groomed” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with a particularly baritone cast of Lawfare colleagues—co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes, Foreign Policy Editor Dana Stuster, and…
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Lawfare Daily: Page Hedley and Gad Weiss on OpenAI’s Latest Corporate Governance Pivot
Page Hedley, Senior Advisor at Forecasting Research Institute and co-author of the Not for Private Gain letter urging state attorneys general to stop OpenAI’s…
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Lawfare Daily: Ukraine War Update with Francis Farrell
Despite the frenzy of U.S.-led diplomacy around reaching a ceasefire in Russia’s war against Ukraine, the front line has been far from quiet. In fact, the war…
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Lawfare Daily: Nayib Bukele's Crackdown on Dissent in El Salvador
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has made a lot of headlines recently in the United States for his partnership with the Trump administration. Bukele has…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 16
In a live conversation on May 16, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff…
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Lawfare Archive: Human Rights Abuses in Saudi Arabia with Joey Shea
From September 26, 2023: On August 21, the Human Rights Watch released a report detailing systematic abuses of Ethiopian migrants and asylum seekers at the…
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Lawfare Archive: Christina Koningisor on Secrecy Creep
From January 4, 2022: Government secrecy is pervasive when it comes to national security and foreign affairs, and it’s becoming more and more common for state…
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Lawfare Daily: What Trump’s Middle East Trip Means for Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, with Joel Braunold
For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Contributing Editor Joel Braunold, the Managing Director of the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Doodle Ordinance” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Natalie Orpett, Tyler McBrien, and Daniel Byman to talk through the week’s big national security news…
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Lawfare Daily: How China Might Coerce Taiwan
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman talked with Evan Braden Montgomery and Toshi Yoshihara, both Senior Fellows at the Center for…
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Lawfare Daily: Cullen O’Keefe on the Impending Wave of AI Agents
Cullen O’Keefe, Research Director at the Institute for Law and AI, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and a Contributing Editor at…
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Lawfare Daily: Ukraine Peace Negotiations with Mykola Bielieskov
Donald Trump was confident he could end Russia’s war in Ukraine in a matter of days or weeks. It’s now been more than three months since Trump’s reelection…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 9
In a live conversation on May 9, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff…
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Lawfare Archive: Intimidation of State and Local Officeholders with Maya Kornberg
From February 22, 2024: As a new report on the intimidation of state and local officeholders from the Brennan Center for Justice points out, “The January 6…
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Lawfare Archive: Christine Fair on Developments in Kashmir
From August 27, 2019: On August 5, the Indian government announced that it was revoking “special status” for the states of Jammu and Kashmir, enshrined in…
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Lawfare Daily: Ben Brooks on the Rise of Open Source AI
Ben Brooks, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and former head of public policy for Stability AI, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at…
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Lawfare Daily: Resisting Democratic Backsliding
In recent years, political scientists have given a great deal of attention to “democratic backsliding”—the slow erosion of democracy by aspiring…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Shaving Face” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin “The Beard” Wittes and Anastasiia (and Ava) Lapatina to discuss the week’s biggest national…
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Lawfare Daily: Alexis Loeb on Kleptocracy and National Security
In her recent Lawfare article, Alexis Loeb—a former deputy chief of the Jan. 6 Capitol Siege Section at the U.S. Department of Justice and a current partner at…
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Lawfare Daily: Digital Forgeries, Real Felonies: Inside the TAKE IT DOWN Act
The TAKE IT DOWN Act is the first major U.S. federal law to squarely target non‑consensual intimate imagery (NCII) and to include a component requiring tech…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 2
In a live conversation on May 2, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Scott Anderson, and Roger Parloff and…
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Lawfare Archive: Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy
From July 27, 2020: Anne Applebaum is a columnist, writer, historian and most recently, the author of "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lore of…
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Lawfare Archive: Greg Johnsen and Scott Anderson on the Fight Against the Houthis
From January 16, 2024: Over the last two months, Houthi militants have waged more than 27 attacks against merchant shipping and U.S. and partner forces in the…
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Lawfare Daily: Social Security, the ‘Death Master File,’ and Immigration Enforcement
As the Trump administration seeks to escalate its immigration crackdown, the government has turned to a concerning source of information for data on…
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Lawfare Daily: The Crisis in Kashmir
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Tanvi Madan, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, to discuss the April 22…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Keeping It 100” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Molly Reynolds and James Pearce to talk through the week’s big national security news…
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Lawfare Daily: Andrew Bakaj on the Whistleblowing and DOGE’s Activities at the NLRB
Andrew Bakaj, Chief Legal Counsel at Whistleblower Aid, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to…
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Lawfare Daily: The President, Congress, and the Power of the Purse
In today’s episode, Molly Reynolds, Senior Fellow at Brookings and Senior Editor at Lawfare, sits down with Matt Lawrence, Associate Professor of Law at Emory…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 25
In a live conversation on April 25, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Scott Anderson, and Roger Parloff…
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Lawfare Archive: The Legislative Dog That Hasn’t Barked
From April 11, 2022: The period after Watergate and President Nixon's resignation saw an unprecedented barrage of congressional efforts at reforming the…
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Lawfare Archive: The Spymasters with Chris Whipple
From September 16, 2020: What is the proper relationship between the CIA director and the president? How should directors handle arguably illegal orders? How…
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Lawfare Daily: Cybersecurity Challenges and Opportunities
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Michael Sulmeyer, who was the top Defense official for all aspects of cyber policy…
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Lawfare Daily: Ideological Exclusions and Deportations with Julia Rose Kraut
On today’s episode, Julia Rose Kraut, author of the book “Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States,” joins…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: “The More You DOGE” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower, Tyler McBrien, and Kevin Frazier to talk through the week’s big national security news…
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Lawfare Daily: Mikhail Zygar on Putin, the Russia-Ukraine War, and Press Freedom
On today's episode, Mikhail Zygar, a renowned Russian journalist living in exile in the U.S., the author of multiple books on Vladimir Putin, and the author of…
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Lawfare Daily: Chris Hughes on His New Book, ‘Marketcrafters’
Chris Hughes, author of “Marketcrafters” and co-founder of the Economic Security Project, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and…
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April Minipod: How Could Congress Constrain the President?
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 18
On April 18 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff and Lawfare…
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Lawfare Daily: Trump's Attack on Law Firms
In recent weeks, President Trump has embarked on a campaign of extortion against law firms, pushing major firms to either reach agreements with the White House…
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Lawfare Daily: Roger Parloff and Anna Bower Talk Abrego Garcia
On April 15, Judge Paula Xinis held a hearing in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man deported by accident to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Lawfare…
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Lawfare Daily: Mexican Cartels and American Guns
The Supreme Court recently held oral arguments in the case of Mexico v. Smith & Wesson, a groundbreaking case brought by the government of Mexico that seeks to…
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Lawfare Daily: Daniel Kokotajlo and Eli Lifland on Their AI 2027 Report
Daniel Kokotajlo, former OpenAI researcher and Executive Director of the AI Futures Project, and Eli Lifland, a researcher with the AI Futures Project, join…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 11
In a live conversation on April 11, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff…
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Lawfare Archive: The Shadow Docket
From May 16, 2023: In recent years, the Supreme Court's non-merits “shadow docket” has become a topic of contestation and controversy, especially the Court's…
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Lawfare Archive: The Hidden Alliance Between Tech and Government
From March 8, 2024: The practice of surveillance capitalism—the widespread private collection and commodification of personal data—is well understood. Less…