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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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Governing the Use of Autonomous Weapons and AI in Warfare with Lauren Kahn
Following Hamas’s attacks on Oct. 7, the Israeli military retaliated with a relentless and devastating air war. By mid-December, Israeli forces had struck more…
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Chatter: The Moon, Tides, and National Security with Rebecca Boyle
We all know how superpower competition spurred one giant leap for mankind on the lunar surface in July 1969. But the story of how the Moon and its tides affect…
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Sanctions Past, Present, and Future with OFAC Director Brad Smith
Over the past several decades, financial sanctions have become one of the most widely used tools in the U.S. foreign policy arsenal. And since Russia’s…
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Justin Sherman on Senator Wyden’s Investigation of Near Intelligence Inc.
On Feb. 13, Senator Ron Wyden released a letter documenting an investigation his office has been conducting into the activities of Near Intelligence Inc., a…
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The Justices Figure Out that Internet Law Is Hard
The Supreme Court heard hours and hours of oral arguments today brought by a trade association called NetChoice against laws restricting content moderation in…
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How Much Trouble is NATO Really In? with Scott R. Anderson
At a South Carolina campaign rally on Feb. 10, former President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters that while he was president he told “one of the…
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Rational Security: The “Fast and the Furry-us” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott got together to talk over the week’s big national security news, including:“Is Revanchism a Dish Best…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Delays in Florida and D.C.
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on February 22 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Senior Editor…
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Lawfare Archive: Alina Polyakova on the Poisoning of Alexei Navalny
From September 15, 2020: Alexei Navalny is Russia's most prominent dissident, opposition leader, and anti-corruption crusader—and the latest such person to be…
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Breaking Down the Fireworks in Fulton County
Since a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, handed up an indictment in August of former President Donald Trump and 18 other defendants for their efforts to…
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Chatter: President Biden’s Foreign Policy with Alex Ward
Joe Biden took office with a big ambition: To repair America’s reputation abroad and set the country on a new path, where foreign policy would be crafted with…
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Intimidation of State and Local Officeholders with Maya Kornberg
As a new report on the intimidation of state and local officeholders from the Brennan Center for Justice points out, “The January 6 insurrection at the Capitol…
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The Authoritarian Playbook in 2025
The advocacy group Protect Democracy last month issued an updated version of its report entitled, “The Authoritarian Playbook.” The new report is called, “The…
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Joel Braunold on the State of the Gaza Crisis
The conflict in Gaza is headed toward a critical juncture. Israeli political leaders have signaled their intent to assault Rafah, one of the final safe havens…
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Lawfare Archive: Christopher Moran on ‘Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, and the CIA’
From December 10, 2016: This week at the Hoover Book Soiree, Jack Goldsmith interviewed Christopher Moran, a professor at the University of Warwick, on his…
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Rational Security: The “Licking the Cow” Edition
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were once again joined by co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's big national security news…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: A Wild and Woolly Week
It’s another episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” this one recorded before a live audience on Zoom on Friday afternoon. It’s been a wild week in Trump…
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Lawfare Archive: Jim Baker on FISA Errors
From April 10, 2020: Jim Baker served as general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was also the counsel for the Office of Intelligence Policy…
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Itsiq Benizri on the EU AI Act
The EU has finally agreed to its AI Act. Despite the political agreement reached in December 2023, some nations maintained some reservations about the text…
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Chatter: Life and Death in Ukraine with Journalist Christopher Miller
In February 2022, Russia launched a full scale invasion into Ukraine in the largest attack on a European country since World War II. This invasion did not…
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Jonathan Cedarbaum and Matt Gluck on the NDAA’s Cyber Provisions
The National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, is considered must-pass legislation and is increasingly becoming the only reliable vehicle for national cyber…
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Constitutional Law, International Law, and the State
Many international law scholars are skeptical about the efficacy of international law to shape state behavior—and even international law's reality as…
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‘God, Guns, and Sedition’ with Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware
Unfortunately, Americans are certainly not strangers to far-right terrorism. From the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston, to the 2017…
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A Victory for Guatemalan Democracy
On January 15, Bernardo Arévalo took office as the new president of Guatemala. The transfer of power had been far from assured: after Arévalo triumphed in…
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Rational Security: The “Fecund Season” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan made his long-awaited return to the podcast for a (brief, so savor it) reunion with Quinta and Scott to talk over the…
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Lawfare Archive: Julian Mortenson on 'The Executive Power'
From April 12, 2019: Julian Mortenson, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, is the author of a remarkable new article entitled "Article II Vests…
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Trump's Trials and Tribulations: Supreme Court Oral Arguments in the Trump Disqualification Case
On February 8, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Anderson, on the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling that former President Donald Trump is…
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Chatter: The Global Citizenship Industry with Kristin Surak
Some people call it "investor citizenship" while others label it a "passport for sale" scheme. Either way, the last few decades have seen the global…
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Molly Reynolds and Eric Ciaramella on the Ukraine Supplemental
It's been a wild and woolly week on Capitol Hill with respect to the border, Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and a lot of other stuff. On Wednesday, the Senate was…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Aftermath S2E3 - #StormtheCapitol
Social media was key to Jan. 6. End to end. It was key to gathering the crowd that stormed the Capitol. It was key to generating the sentiment that led people…
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The D.C. Circuit Rejects Trump's Presidential Immunity Claim
On February 6, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected former President Donald Trump's appeal of his presidential immunity defense in the federal…
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Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Armed Conflict
Among the many horrific stories emerging out of the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza are instances of sexual and gender-based violence. It’s an issue that…
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Riana Pfefferkorn and David Thiel on How to Fight Computer-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
One of the dark sides of the rapid development of artificial intelligence and machine learning is the increase in computer-generated child pornography and…
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Rational Security: The “Meatlovers” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk over the meaty week of national security news…
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Trump's Trials and Tribulations: Waiting for the D.C. Circuit
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on February 1 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: Law and the Soleimani Strike
From January 6, 2020: On Friday, the Lawfare Podcast hosted a conversation on the wide-ranging policy implications of the U.S. strike that killed Iran’s…
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Sam Moyn and Ilya Somin on Disqualifying Trump Under Section 3
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear argument in Trump v. Anderson, former President Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s historic decision…
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Chatter: The Long History of US Foreign Disaster Aid, with Julia Irwin
American aid to global victims of natural disasters might seem like a relatively new phenomenon, perhaps linked to the Marshall Plan and other major programs…
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James A. Heilpern on Why Section 3 Reaches Presidents
We're approaching the historic oral argument of the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. Anderson. That's the case over whether Donald Trump is disqualified from…
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‘Find Me the Votes’ with Dan Klaidman and Michael Isikoff
During a late night press conference in August, an Atlanta-area prosecutor announced a sprawling criminal case against Donald Trump and his allies for their…
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War Powers and the Latest U.S. Intervention in Yemen with Brian Finucane, Jack Goldsmith, and Matt Gluck
U.S. military operations against Houthi rebels in Yemen have escalated rapidly in recent weeks, culminating in a number of major strikes aimed at degrading…
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January Bonus Minipod: What Happens if Trump is Disqualified From the Presidency?
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey was joined by Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff to discuss what…
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Discussing FinCEN with Director Andrea Gacki
Everyone recognizes sanctions as one of the United States’ most powerful tools of economic statecraft. But few realize that much of the information behind…
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Rational Security: The “CesTar” Edition
This week on Rational Security, just Scott was joined for a Bizarro-world episode with guests Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds…
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Trump's Trials and Tribulations: What Is Going On in Fulton County?
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on January 25 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: War Powers and the Biden Administration
From March 12, 2021: President Joe Biden has conducted military strikes in Syria, has articulated legal theories under which the series of strikes were proper…
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Government Use of Open-Source Information
In front of a live audience at the Knight Foundation's INFORMED conference in Miami, Florida, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke with Hon. Kenneth…
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Chatter: "A City on Mars," with Dr. Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
Outer space is back in style. For the first time in decades, NASA is sending astronauts back to the moon. Millionaires are exiting the atmosphere on a regular…
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‘Democracy Awakening’ with Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson is the author of the book “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America,” which looks at the evolution of American democracy and…
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Jim Dempsey on Standards for Software Liability
Software liability has been dubbed the “third rail of cybersecurity policy.” But the Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy directly takes it…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Aftermath S2E2 - Lawyers for the Coup
In December 2020, The President and his advisors are still fighting to overturn the results of November’s presidential election. Then, in the middle of the…
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Shoba Pillay and Jennifer Lee on the SEC SolarWinds Enforcement Action
The fallout from the SolarWinds intrusion took a new turn with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to file a cybersecurity-related…
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Waxman and Ramsey on Delegating War Power
There is much debate among academics and policy experts over the power the Constitution affords to the president and Congress to initiate military conflicts…
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Rational Security: The “Three-Ring Circus” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds to talk through…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Still Waiting on the D.C. Circuit
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on January 18 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: About That Border Wall
From January 28, 2017: President Trump kicked off the first foreign policy crisis of his new administration by signing an executive order mandating the…
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Justin Sherman on the FTC Settlement with Location Data Broker X-Mode
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a settlement with location data broker X-Mode Social. X-Mode collects over 10 billion location data…
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Chatter: Nuclear Launch Authority in Myth and Reality, with Hans Kristensen
Lloyd Austin's hospitalization and delayed communication about it have spurred much commentary and questions about the role of the secretary of defense in the…
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Protecting Civilians in Gaza and Beyond with Marc Garlasco and Emily Tripp
Last month, the Department of Defense released its first-ever policy on civilian harm reduction. But as Marc Garlasco recently wrote in Lawfare, “[T]he policy…
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Chimène Keitner on South Africa, Israel, and the Genocide Convention
Chimène Keitner is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the University of California at Davis. She is a leading international law authority and…