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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.
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The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Foreign Agents and the Barrack Indictment
From September 21, 2022: This past Monday, the criminal trial of Thomas Barrack began in federal court in the Eastern District of New York. Barrack, who served…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: National Security and the 2024 Election, Election Management
This episode of “Lawfare Live: National Security and the 2024 Election” was recorded on September 24 in front of a live audience on Youtube and Zoom.Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Geoff Schaefer and Alyssa Lefaivre Škopac on AI Adoption Best Practices
Geoff Schaefer, Head of Responsible AI at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Alyssa Lefaivre Škopac, an independent responsible AI strategist, join Kevin Frazier…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Tortured Pundits Department” Edition
This week, Scott was joined by Natalie Orpett, Anna Bower, and Matt Gluck to talk over some of the week's big national security news, including:“Some Assembly…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Steve Coll on Saddam Hussein and the Limits of American Power in the Middle East
Steve Coll’s latest book, “The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq,” seeks to explain why Saddam Hussein…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Itsiq Benizri on the Regulatory and Political Implications of Thierry Breton’s Resignation from the EU Commission
Itsiq Benizri, counsel in WilmerHale’s Brussels office, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: The Inside Story of the Challenger Disaster with Adam Higginbotham
The explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in January 1986 riveted millions of Americans, who watched the horrific event live on television. What they…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Exploding Pagers and Air Strikes
Israel and Hezbollah seem to be headed for a major war. Over the past several weeks, Israel has taken a series of escalatory steps along its northern border…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Lindsay Chervinsky on ‘Making the Presidency’
Lindsay Chervinsky is the Executive Director of the George Washington Library at Mount Vernon. She is also the author of a much celebrated new book on the John…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The Soleimani Strike Two Years Later
From: January 5, 2022: Two years ago this week, the head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in an American…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly Round-up (September 19, 2024)
This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on September 19 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom.Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Bob Bauer and Liza Goitein on Emergency Powers Reform
Bob Bauer, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law, and Liza Goitein, Senior Director of Liberty &…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Ms. Jackson, if You’re Nastya” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare team members Alan Rozenshtein, Tyler McBrien, and RatSec newbie Anastasiia "Nastya" Lapatina to talk through the week's…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: ‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
On April 14, 2022, New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac woke up to a stunning four-word tweet from Elon Musk’s Twitter account: “I made…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: UFO Culture, with Sarah Scoles
Science journalist Sarah Scoles has written extensively about astronomy and the UFO community, including in her 2021 book They Are Already Here. She joined…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Jane Bambauer, Ramya Krishnan, and Alan Rozenshtein on the Constitutionality of the TikTok Bill
Jane Bambauer, Professor at Levin College of Law; Ramya Krishnan, Senior Staff Attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute and a lecturer in law at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Digging Deep on the State of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Joel Braunold
For today’s episode, Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: A Ukraine War Update with Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella
It's been a rough couple of weeks in Ukraine, as Russian forces have hit major cities with intense bombardments, killing an unusually large number of people…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Gharun Lacy Talks State Department Cybersecurity
Gharun Lacy has an unusual job. He’s the head of cybersecurity at the State Department, responsible for securing computers and their users in every embassy and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Deterring Russian Cyber Intrusions
From December 24, 2016: Whatever the President-elect might say on the matter, the question of Russian interference in the presidential election is not going…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: National Security and the 2024 Election
In a live recording on September 10, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes moderated a panel discussion featuring Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Fellow…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Helen Toner and Zach Arnold on a Common Agenda for AI Doomers and AI Ethicists
Helen Toner, Director of Strategy and Foundational Research Grants at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), and Zach…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The "Let's Understand How We Got Here" Edition
In the debut episode of RatSec 2.1, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Kevin Frazier, Eugenia Lostri, and Benjamin Wittes to talk over the week’s big…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Past, Present, and Future of War Powers with Brian Finucane and Matt Waxman
Without new congressional authorization for its post-Oct. 7 operations in the Middle East, the Biden administration has sought to legally justify its military…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Nick Ashton-Hart on the UN Cybercrime Convention
On Aug. 8, the international community concluded its final negotiations at the United Nations over an international cybercrime treaty. The negotiation—a…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Ronald Reagan Reassessed, with Max Boot
Council on Foreign Relations fellow, Washington Post columnist, and author of military history books Max Boot has just completed a definitive biography of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Biden Administration’s Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Former DAS Andrew Miller
For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Andrew Miller, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Securing Open Source Software, with John Speed Meyers and Paul Gibert
Lawfare Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri sits down with John Speed Meyers, head of Chainguard Labs, and Paul Gibert, a research scientist at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Foreign Interference... It's Happening
From October 23, 2020: It's been a wild couple of days of disinformation in the electoral context. Intelligence community officials are warning about Russian…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly Round-up (September 5, 2024)
This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on September 5 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom.Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Catching Up on the State of Platform Governance: Zuckerberg, Durov, and Musk
It’s been a busy week in the world of social media and technology platforms. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent an odd letter to the House Judiciary Committee…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The "Third Anniversary Hot Take Takedown: Comeuppance" Edition
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott celebrated the third anniversary of Rational Security 2.0 with their Lawfare colleagues Molly Reynolds, Natalie Orpett, and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: In Search of a Harris Doctrine with Michael Hirsh
As Robbie Gramer and Amy Mackinnon wrote in Foreign Policy, “If you want to learn more about the U.S. Democratic Party’s foreign-policy vision as the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Duncan McLaren on the Opportunity Costs of Geoengineering
Duncan McLaren, Climate Intervention Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at UCLA, joins Kevin Frazier, a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: How Movies and TV Affect Everything, with Walt Hickey
Walt Hickey is the Deputy Editor for Data and Analysis at Insider News, and the author of You Are What You Watch: How Movies and TV Affect Everything. His book…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Kevin Frazier on Prioritizing AI Research
Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein sits down with Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Why the First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Trump’s Jan. 6 Speech
From October 28, 2022: There's been a lot of discussion about whether Donald Trump should be indicted. Lately, that discussion has focused on the documents the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Laura Rosenberger on Foreign Interventions in U.S. Campaigns
From October 30, 2020: Laura Rosenberger is the director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Who Let the Barbarians Through the Gates?
From January 8, 2021: The storming of the Capitol on Wednesday was a catastrophic failure of protective law enforcement, as rioters overran Capitol Police…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Elliot Jones on the Importance and Current Limitations of AI Testing
Elliot Jones, a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Prison Rules” Edition
This week, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler "Spicy Tyler" McBrien to talk through the week's big national security news stories…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Trump’s Trials and Tribulations, Trump Re-Indicted in the Jan. 6 Case
This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on August 28 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom.Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Wagner Group, One Year After Prigozhin with Vanda Felbab-Brown
On today’s episode, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director of the Africa Security Initiative, and Senior Fellow…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: What Putin Wants, with Peter Clement
For more than 40 years, Peter Clement has studied Russian political culture and leaders--serving for most of that time as an analyst, manager, and executive at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: ‘Threat Multiplier,’ Climate, and the Military with Sherri Goodman
On today’s episode, Sherri Goodman, the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security and the first Deputy Undersecretary of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionAugust Minipod: What is the State of Election-Related Misinformation?
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey was joined by Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic to discuss what the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: How Internet Infrastructure Affects Digital Repression in Venezuela
Lawfare Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri sits down with Esteban Carisimo, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University to talk about…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Eugene Volokh on AI Libel
From April 26, 2023: If someone lies about you, you can usually sue them for defamation. But what if that someone is ChatGPT? Already in Australia, the mayor…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The Biden Administration's Grand Strategy in Three Documents, with Richard Fontaine
From November 1, 2022: In recent weeks, the Biden administration has released a trio of long-awaited strategy documents, including the National Security…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Richard Albert on Constitutional Resilience Amid Political Tumult
Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor of Government, and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Make Daguerreotypes Great Again” Edition
This week, Alan and Quinta sat down with Molly Reynolds and Kevin Frazier to talk about the week’s big developments, including:“It can always get worse…”…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: A Conversation with an Exiled Venezuelan Opposition Leader
Anastasiia Lapatina is a Kyiv-based Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare. Leopoldo Lopez is a Venezuelan opposition leader living in exile in Madrid, after escaping…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Shoba Pillay and Jennifer Lee on the Dismissal of Charges Against the SolarWinds Corporation and Timothy Brown
The fallout from the SolarWinds intrusion took a new turn with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to file a cybersecurity-related…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Gaming Out an Insurrection with Jesse Moss
It’s January 6, 2025. Congress has convened to certify electoral votes in the presidential election. But members of the U.S. military are in revolt, throwing…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The New Outbound Investment Regime with Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Rosen
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Lawfare Contributing Editor Brandon Van Grack sat down with Assistant Secretary of the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Eugenia Lostri and Justin Sherman on Security by Design in Practice
As part of Lawfare’s Security by Design Project, Eugenia Lostri, Lawfare’s Fellow in Technology Policy and Law, and Justin Sherman, CEO of Global Cyber…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: What Ukraine Tells Us About the Future of War
From August 2, 2023: Over the past eighteen months, Ukraine has served as the stage for a proxy battle between superpowers, with the invading Russians on one…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly Round-up (August 15, 2024)
This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on August 15 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom.Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Fallout from the French Elections
French politics has had quite a summer. In early June, the French far-right made substantial gains in the European Union Parliament. The same day the results…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Minnesota Nice” Edition
This week, the whole gang—Alan, Quinta, and Scott—got back together to discuss the week's big national security news, including:“In Post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine…