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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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Everything You Need to Know Heading Into the Trump Trial in New York
Today marks the start of the first criminal trial of former President Donald Trump in New York City. Trump is facing 34 felony counts for his alleged…
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Rational Security: The "Eldritch Portents" Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan and Quinta were joined again by Brookings Senior Fellow and Lawfare Senior Editor Molly Reynolds to talk over the week’s…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Jury Selection Starts Monday
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on April 11 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Senior Editor…
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Lawfare Archive: Daniel Reisner on Law, Security, and Peace in the Middle East
From January 17, 2015: This week, Ben Wittes and Matt Waxman sat down with Daniel Reisner, former head of the International Law Branch of the Israeli Defense…
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Jack Goldsmith and Bob Bauer on Reforming the Insurrection Act
The Insurrection Act is a provision that allows the president to deploy the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement. It’s been invoked dozens of times by…
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Chatter: The Pentagon’s Alliance with the Country Music Industry with Joseph Thompson
For decades, country music has had a close and special relationship to the U.S. military. In his new book, Cold War Country, historian Joseph Thompson shows…
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Conditioning Arms to Israel with Sarah Harrison
Last week, 40 Democratic members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to President Biden expressing concern and outrage over an Israeli airstrike…
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Information Ecology and 19th-Century Naturalism at Verify 2024
Hosted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Cyber Initiative and Aspen Digital, Verify 2024 brings together journalists and cyber and tech policy…
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Juliette Kayyem on the Baltimore Bridge Collapse and Crisis Management
In the early morning on March 26, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge collapsed, resulting in the…
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Jim Dempsey and John Carlin on U.S. Cybersecurity Law and Policy: There’s a Lot Going On
There is a lot to keep up with in U.S. cybersecurity law and policy these days. To talk about the current regulatory landscape and the progression of the DOJ’s…
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Rational Security: The “Going Once, Going Twice” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan and Quinta were joined by Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett to talk through the week's big national security news…
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Trump's Trials and Tribulations: Trump Gagged Once Again
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on April 4 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: An Assassination in Iran
From December 2, 2020: The top Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed, apparently in an Israeli strike. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who has long been the mastermind…
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How Congressional Staffers Helped Our Afghan Allies
A new report from the POPVOX Foundation focuses on a little-known and hugely under-appreciated congressional effort: that of congressional staffers helping…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Why Foreign Policy Elites Matter with Elizabeth Saunders
The "deep state." The "blob." Foreign policy elites are often so labeled, misunderstood, and denigrated. But what influence on presidents and on public opinion…
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Paul Beckett on the Evan Gershkovich Case
Paul Beckett was the Washington Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. But since the arrest of the newspaper's Russia correspondent, Evan Gershkovich, last…
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Contestability in Government AI Systems
The use of AI to make decisions about individuals raises the issue of contestability. When automated systems are used by governments to decide whether to grant…
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Data Privacy and Consumer Protection with the FTC’s Ben Wiseman
The Federal Trade Commission’s data, privacy, and AI cases have been all over the news recently, from its proposed settlement with Avast Antivirus to its…
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March Minipod: Does Trump Get to View Classified Documents?
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey was joined by Director of Intelligence for Bedrock Learning, Inc…
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Asylum-Seekers and the EU Migration Pact
In early February, the European Union approved a major overhaul of its immigration laws. If approved by EU member states, the pact will drastically curtail the…
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Rational Security: The “A Terrorism Briefing From a Goldendoodle” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan and Quinta were joined again by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman—also…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Two Weeks Until a Trial
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on March 28 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: Vladimir Kara-Murza on Russia's So-Called 'Election'
From April 7, 2018: Vladimir Kara-Murza is the vice chairman of Open Russia, the founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation and a contributing opinion writer for…
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Shannon Togawa Mercer on Negotiating with the Bad Guys
Shannon Togawa Mercer served as Lawfare's Managing Editor and then went on to quite a career shift. She now negotiates with ransomware bad actors. She is a…
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Chatter: Nuclear War, A Scenario with Annie Jacobsen
Without warning, North Korea launches a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile at the United States. American satellites detect the launch within…
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How the FBI is Combating Cyberattacks, with Brett Leatherman
One of the gravest threats to U.S. national security today—and also one of the newest—is the risk of cyberattacks. They come in many forms, and they can…
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Benjamin Nathans on Alexei Navalny
Benjamin Nathans is a professor of Russian and Soviet history at the University of Pennsylvania, with a particular specialty in the history of Russian and…
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What Should We Do About Special Counsels?
In February, Special Counsel Robert Hur released a report declining to prosecute President Biden for his handling of classified material. Earlier this month…
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One Year Since the Kidnapping of Elizabeth Tsurkov
One year ago, Elizabeth Tsurkov, a graduate student at Princeton University, was abducted by the terrorist organization Kata'ib Hezbollah in Baghdad, where she…
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Rational Security: The “Tyler’s Grandma’s Matzah Ball Soup” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan and Quinta were joined by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Lawfare Legal Fellow and Courts Correspondent Anna…
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Trump's Trials and Tribulations: Judge Cannon's Concerning Jury Instructions
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on March 21 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Senior Editor…
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Lawfare Archive: Allies, Episode 1: Faithful and Valuable Service
From May 16, 2022: In order to tell you this story, we need to start at the beginning, just before the U.S. invasion. After 9/11, the CIA set their sights on…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionMatt Perault, Ramya Krishnan, and Alan Rozenshtein Talk About the TikTok Divestment and Ban Bill
Today, we’re bringing you an episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the information ecosystem.Last week the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed…
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Chatter: From Right-Wing Radio to the Heart of the Never Trump Movement, with Charlie Sykes
Charlie Sykes recently stepped down as host of the Bulwark Podcast. He's a regular commentator on MSNBC, and has written a number of books. He tells the story…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionJawboning at the Supreme Court
Today, we’re bringing you an episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the information ecosystem.On March 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in…
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Weaponizing the Dollar with Saleha Mohsin
Since World War II, the United States and its currency, the dollar, have come to play a central role in the broader global economy. And in recent decades…
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Timothy Edgar and Paul Rosenzweig on the Volt Typhoon Cyber Intrusion
Last May, Microsoft announced that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, Volt Typhoon, appeared to be targeting U.S. critical infrastructure and entities…
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Judge McAfee Rules Fani Willis Can Stay
Friday morning in Fulton County, Georgia, Judge Scott McAfee issued an opinion in the matter of the disqualification of District Attorney Fani Willis. It was…
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Rational Security: The “Sociopathic Nose Wrinkle” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott got together for the last time before Scott’s paternity leave to talk over the week’s big national…
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Trump's Trials and Tribulations: Delays All Along the East Coast
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on March 14 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: Paul Rosenzweig on Investigating American Presidents
From November 10, 2018: With the firing of Jeff Sessions and his replacement with former U.S. attorney Matthew Whitaker, all eyes this week are focused on…
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Tim Mak on Two Years of War in Ukraine
Tim Mak is the editor, writer, and entrepreneur behind the Substack site, The Counteroffensive, which covers the Ukraine-Russia war through personal stories on…
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Chatter: Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and the CIA with Benjamin Breen
If you’re listening to this podcast, chances are you’ve heard stories about the CIA’s experiments with drugs, particularly LSD, during the infamous MKUltra…
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Six Counts Quashed in the Fulton County Case
On March 13, Judge McAfee released an order quashing six counts in the Fulton County electoral interference indictment against former President Trump and his…
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Devin DeBacker and Lee Licata on the Biden Administration’s New Executive Order on Preventing Access to Americans' Bulk Sensitive Personal Data
On February 28, the Biden administration issued an Executive Order (EO) entitled “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United…
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How Should Governments Use Deepfakes?
Progress in deepfake technology and artificial intelligence can make manipulated media hard to identify, making deepfakes an appealing tool for governments…
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Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Fourteenth Amendment Ruling
On March 4, the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Anderson, holding that states cannot disqualify Donald Trump from appearing on the presidential ballot under…
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Rational Security: The “Alan and the Owl” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien joined Alan, Quinta, and Scott to discuss the week's big national security news…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Pending Motions Piling Up in Florida
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on March 7 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: Judge John Bates on FISA in the News
From September 28, 2019: At the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas, Benjamin Wittes sat down in front of a live audience with Judge John Bates, a senior…
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The Hidden Alliance Between Tech and Government
The practice of surveillance capitalism—the widespread private collection and commodification of personal data—is well understood. Less well understood is the…
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Chatter: Spy Disguises in Fact and Fiction with Jonna Mendez
Jonna Mendez advanced in her Central Intelligence Agency career to become Chief of Disguise despite the many institutional challenges to women's promotions…
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Bryan Choi on NIST's Software Un-Standards
Everyone agrees that the United States has a serious cybersecurity problem. But how to fix it—that's another question entirely. Over the past decade, a…
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Lidsky and Koningisor on First Amendment Disequilibrium
Executive branch constraints and the posture of the media have shifted in significant ways over the past two decades. Lyrissa Lidsky and Christina Koningisor…
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The i-Soon Leaks with Winnona DeSombre Bernsen
In mid-February, Chinese cybersecurity firm i-Soon appeared to suffer a massive data leak, which offered unprecedented insight into the operations of the…
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How to Steal a Presidential Election
As the 2024 presidential election approaches, a vital question is whether the legal architecture governing the election is well crafted to prevent corruption…
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Rational Security: The “Sir, This is a Wendy’s” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by Molly Reynolds and (a prerecorded) Anna Bower to talk through some of the week’s big national…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: The Supreme Court Will Hear Trump's Immunity Claim
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on February 29 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Riverside. Lawfare Senior Editor…
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Lawfare Archive: The SpaceX Launch and the Future of Space Law
From May 26, 2020: On Wednesday, NASA and the SpaceX Corporation are scheduled to send astronauts back into outer space from U.S. soil for the first time since…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Aftermath S2E4 - The Hidden Insurrection
It’s December 2020. Donald Trump continues to deny that he has lost the election. He and his inner circle are working feverishly to try to overturn it while…