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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 EditionLawfare Daily: An Update on Ukraine Politics with Eric Ciaramella
It’s been a wild and wooly week in Ukraine politics: Speeches from American officials have not been consistent with each other, American statements on Ukraine…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Matt Perault on the Little Tech Agenda
Matt Perault, Head of AI Policy at Andreessen Horowitz, joins Kevin Frazier, Contributing Editor at Lawfare and Adjunct Professor at Delaware Law, to define…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 14
In a live conversation on February 14, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Scott Anderson, and Roger Parloff…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Zack Beauchamp on the American Right’s Embrace of the Hungarian Regime of Viktor Orbán
From August 18, 2021: Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson, whose nightly news show on Fox has become the most popular show in U.S. cable news history, traveled…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: David Rohde on the Supposed "Deep State"
From July 14, 2020: In a 2018 poll, 74 percent of Americans said they believed that some group of unelected government and military officials was definitely or…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Russia’s Shadow War in the Baltic Sea
In the last two years, there have been at least four incidents of damaged underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. Be it Russian deliberate sabotage or…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Are the Courts Ready for a Trump Presidency?
Only a few weeks have passed since inauguration, but President Trump's barrage of executive orders has already generated dozens of legal challenges. Which…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: “The General Mattis of the NFL” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare teammates Tyler McBrien and Nastya Lapatina and Lawfare friend Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Jack Goldsmith on Trump v. United States and Executive Power
Jack Goldsmith, the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School and co-founder of Lawfare, joins Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Chris Miller and Marshall Kosloff on the Abundance Agenda’s Implications for National Security
Chris Miller, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Marshall Kosloff…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Discussing Litigation Against Trump Administration Actions
In a live conversation on February 7, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The PEPFAR Reauthorization Battle, with Emily Bass
From August 22, 2023: In 2003, President Bush created the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, and in the twenty years since, the program has…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Trade War Powers: Past, Present and Future
From August 31, 2020: Earlier this month, the Trump administration re-imposed tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada, signaling a new salvo in the now…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Nayna Gupta on the Laken Riley Act
On today’s podcast, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey spoke to Nayna Gupta, Director of Policy at the American Immigration Council, about…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Understanding the War in Sudan
Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and Georgetown professor Daniel Byman sits down with Holly Berkley Fletcher, a former Senior Africa Analyst at the Central…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The "Law and Order: Executive Victims Unit" Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Molly Reynolds, and Anna Bower to talk through another big week of national security…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Legality of OPM's "Deferred Resignations”
On Jan. 28, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent out an email offering a “deferred resignation program” to over 2 million federal employees…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: What Is Happening with USAID?
Today’s episode is a recording of Feb. 3 livestream that Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson hosted with George Ingram and Tony Pipa, both Senior Fellows in Global…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionJanuary Minipod: What Is the Judicial Conference of the United States?
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey discusses what the judicial conference of the United States is and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Should the U.S. Sanction the ICC, with Nema Milaninia
Nema Milaninia, a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a current partner at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Sejal Zota on ICE Tracking Technologies
From May 9, 2022: Many individuals seeking asylum or other forms of immigration relief in the U.S. are subject to a program run by Immigration Customs…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Discussing the Kennedy, Patel, and Gabbard Confirmation Hearings
In a live conversation on January 30, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: How the Trump Administration is Using the Military to Enforce Its New Immigration Policies
For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Chris Mirasola, an assistant professor at the University of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Understanding the Impoundment Crisis
This week, the Office of Management and Budget announced a breathtakingly broad freeze on federal funds—before scrambling to clarify that freeze and seemingly…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Don’t Cry for Me, Lawfare” Edition
This week, Scott was joined by his colleagues Kevin and Eugenia—in what is sadly her last episode before leaving Lawfare—as well as special guest Peter Harrell…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Peter Hyun on the Tech Supply Chain and National Security
Peter Hyun, then-Acting Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission, discusses with Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Nick Bednar on Trump's Civil Service Executive Orders
In today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Z. Rozenshtein speaks with his University of Minnesota Law colleague, Nick Bednar, about the wave of Day 1…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Discussing President Trump’s First Batch of Executive Orders
In a live conversation on January 23, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: A Jan. 6 Committee Staffer on Far-Right Extremism
From February 15, 2023: The Jan. 6 committee’s final report on the insurrection is over 800 pages, including the footnotes. But there’s still new information…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The West Bank and the Israel-Hamas War
From November 3, 2023: Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Israel-Hamas war has largely been fought in Gaza, a small strip of land along the border…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Aram Gavoor on the Trump Administration's AI Pivot: Trading Safeguards for Stargate
Aram Gavoor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at GW Law, joins Kevin Frazier, a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to summarize and analyze the Trump…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Former Deputy Chief of the Justice Department's Capitol Siege Section Alexis Loeb on President Trump's Pardons
Alexis Loeb, the former Deputy Chief of the Capitol Siege Section of the Department of Justice, sits down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff to talk…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: “The Next First Day of the Rest of Our Lives” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues and hosts emeriti Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, and Alan Rozenshtein to talk through the week’s…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Gaza Ceasefire and Where It May Lead
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with a panel of leading experts to discuss the recent ceasefire in Gaza, including: Natan…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Discussing Recent Disruptions to Undersea Cables with Kevin Frazier
Senior Editor at Lawfare Eugenia Lostri sits down with Kevin Frazier, Lawfare’s Tarbell Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, to discuss recent disruptions to…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The Paradox of Democracy
From July 11, 2022: We often use the terms democracy and liberal democracy interchangeably, but they're not the same thing. Democracy means majority rule and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Norm Eisen on the Emoluments Clause
From February 11, 2017: Donald Trump's election as president brought a surge of interest in the previously obscure Emoluments Clause, which prohibits any…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Susan Hennessey and Matt Tait Go on a Political Witch Hunt
From January 7, 2017: In an interview with The New York Times before his intelligence briefing on Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. election on Friday…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Janet Egan and Lennart Heim on the AI Diffusion Rule
Janet Egan, Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and Lennart Heim, an AI researcher at RAND, join Kevin Frazier, a Tarbell Fellow at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Rubio, Ratcliffe, and Bondi Confirmation Hearings Dispatch
In a live conversation on January 15, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Working the Refs” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Roger Parloff, Renée DiResta, and Tyler McBrien to talk through the week’s big national security news…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Anna Bower on the Confirmation Hearing of Pete Hegseth
In a live conversation on January 14, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower about the confirmation hearing of Pete…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Proposed New FARA Regulations, with DOJ Official Jennifer Gellie
For today’s episode, Jennifer Gellie, the Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section ("CES") in the National Security Division of the U.S…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionDecember Minipod: The Intelligence Community During Trump’s Second Term
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey was joined by Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss how…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: TikTok Ban at the Supreme Court
In a live conversation on January 10, Lawfare Tarbell Fellow in Artificial Intelligence Kevin Frazier talked to Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily, Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: New York Sentencing
This episode of “Lawfare Live: Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on January 10 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom.Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Brian Fishman on Violent Extremism and Platform Liability
From May 12, 2023: Earlier this year, Brian Fishman published a fantastic paper with Brookings thinking through how technology platforms grapple with terrorism…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Climate on the Docket at the ICJ with Melissa Stewart
Melissa Stewart, an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law, joins Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Orin Kerr on the Digital Fourth Amendment
Jack Goldsmith sits down with Orin Kerr, a Professor at Stanford Law School, to discuss his new book, “The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “No Taxation Without Sledding Representation” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Molly Reynolds and Kevin Frazier to discuss the week’s big national security news, including:“Mike Drop…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Full Stack Policymaking
Lawfare Senior Editor Eugenia Lostri sat down with Winnona DeSombre Bernsen, nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council and founder of the hacker conference…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Sheriffs and ‘The Highest Law in the Land,’ with Jessica Pishko
Jessica Pishko, an independent journalist and lawyer who writes about the criminal legal system with a focus on the political power of law enforcement…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The New January 6 Reports
On today’s podcast, Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds is joined by Quinta Jurecic, a Fellow at Brookings and Senior Editor at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Shane Harris on the Nord Stream 2 Bombing
From January 5, 2023: It was a few months ago that something went boom under the sea and the Nord Stream 2 pipelines were severely damaged. Everyone assumed…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Countering Extremism Within the Military
From April 8, 2022: Last week on Lawfare Live, Jacob Schulz sat down with Andrew Mines, a research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: A Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act Update
On today's podcast, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett is joined by Brian Hoxie to get an update on the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act (UFLPA). The…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Ask Us Anything About 2024
It's time for Lawfare's annual "Ask Us Anything" podcast.You called in with your questions, and Lawfare contributors have answers! Benjamin Wittes, Kevin…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Out of the Twenty-Twenty-Fourno, Into the Fire” Edition
For the podcast’s annual end-of-year episode, Scott sat down with co-hosts emeritus Alan Rozenshtein and Quinta Jurecic to talk over listener-submitted topics…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Can Torture Evidence Be Used at Guantanamo Bay?
From August 8, 2023: Just weeks ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the life sentence of a Yemeni national serving out his time at the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Closing the Chatterbox, with Shane Harris and David Priess
After more than three years, Chatter is ending its run. In this episode, Shane and David reflect on the diverse range of topics at the frontiers of national…