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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.
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Episodes
- The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Lawfare Archive: The Complicated Politics of Ukraine Aid
From December 11, 2023: The Senate last week failed to move forward the national security supplemental, which includes a large package of aid for Ukraine. The…
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Lawfare Daily: Sept. 11, 2001, 25 Years Later
On today’s episode, on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Lawfare Associate Editor Katherine Pompilio sits down with five members of the Lawfare team—Public Service…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Fifth Anniversary Hot Take Takedown” Edition
This week, Scott celebrated the fifth anniversary of Rational Security 2.0 with the return of co-hosts emeriti Shane Harris, Quinta Jurecic, and Benjamin…
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Lawfare Daily: The National Guard in Washington, D.C.
Over a year ago, President Trump sent 800 National Guard members to the streets of Washington D.C., citing a purported crime emergency. Since then, thousands…
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Lawfare Daily: Why Autocrats Hate Cities with Ambassador Nina Hachigian
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Ambassador Nina Hachigian, President and CEO of the Alliance for Local Leaders…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 4
In a conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff…
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Lawfare Archive: The Violent Extremist Threat to Critical Infrastructure in the United States
From October 24, 2022: Last month, the George Washington University Program on Extremism published a report called, “Mayhem, Murder, and Misdirection: Violent…
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Lawfare Archive: An Election in Germany
From September 28, 2021: Over the weekend, Germany held elections to see who will succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor. The results are in, but…
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Lawfare Archive: Juliette Kayyem on Dealing with Disasters
From March 29, 2023: We live in a time of seemingly constant catastrophes, and we always seem a step behind and still fumble when they occur. It's no longer…
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Lawfare Daily: Mike Schmidt Talks CHIPS and U.S. Industrial Policy
When Congress passed the CHIPS Act in 2022, it was the first major piece of U.S. industrial policy legislation in decades and was intended to expand America's…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The "Whale of a Tale" Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Editors Molly Roberts and Eric Columbus, and Contributing Editor Renée DiResta, to talk through…
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Lawfare Daily: Peter Salib on the Legal and Policy Ramifications of the OpenAI-Hugging Face Postmortems
Peter Salib, Associate Professor at the UH Law Center and co-Director of the Center on AI Law & Risk, joins Kevin Frazier, Director of the AI Innovation and…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 1
In a conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Molly Roberts and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court…
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Lawfare Daily: How Terrorist Groups are Using Artificial Intelligence
Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Tricia Bacon, professor at American University, and Antonia Juelich, International Security Lead at…
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August Minipod: Can Anyone Stop President Trump from Cutting Federal Funds to Blue States?
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talks to Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at the Brookings…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, August 28
In a conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, Kate Klonick, and Eric Columbus…
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Lawfare Archive: ‘Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare,’ with Edward Fishman
From March 5, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare general counsel and senior editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Edward Fishman, a senior research scholar at…
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Lawfare Archive: The Trucker Convoys and Domestic Unrest in Canada
From February 11, 2022: Over the past few weeks, Canada has been living through its own insurrectionary moment, as a series of trucker convoys have used…
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Lawfare Daily: Israel's Most Consequential Election, with Natan Sachs
Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Natan Sachs, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, to discuss who is likely to win the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “All Takin’ and No Givin’” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee, and Contributing Editor Alex Zerden…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Is Meta's Oversight Board a Model for AI Governance?
Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law and a member of Meta’s Oversight Board, joins…
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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…