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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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Lawfare Archive: Samuel Moyn on “How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End"
From October 22, 2016: This week, Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Harvard University, closed out a one-day conference on “The Next President's…
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Chatter: The JFK Assassination and Conspiracy Culture, with Gerald Posner
Sixty years ago today in Dallas, Texas, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John Kennedy. For almost as long, various (often contradictory) conspiracy…
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The Pigeon Tunnel: Errol Morris Interviews John le Carré
The great documentary filmmaker Errol Morris is best known for films such as “The Thin Blue Line” and “The Fog of War.” His latest film, “The Pigeon Tunnel,”…
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Brooks, Wohlforth, and Keohane on the Strength of the United States in International Politics
At the end of the Cold War, there was no question that the United States was the most powerful country in the world—militarily, economically, and…
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Why Pakistan is Deporting Afghan Refugees with Madiha Afzal
Over the past few weeks, the country of Pakistan has pursued an aggressive wave of deportations targeting thousands of Afghan refugees, some of whom have been…
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Rational Security: The “Talking Turkey” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were jointed by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk over some of the week's big national security…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: What Is Judge Cannon up to Now?
It's another episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” the last one before Thanksgiving, when we will take a week off. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin…
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Lawfare Archive: Turnover and Turmoil Inside the State Department
From September 7, 2019: This summer has been a tumultuous one inside the U.S. State Department. In August, the department’s Office of the Inspector General…
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Assistant Secretary Matt Axelrod on Enforcing Export Controls
The United States has long set restrictions on the export of certain sensitive goods and technologies, particularly to strategic rivals. But over the past…
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Chatter: The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop with Martine Powers
In October 1983, Maurice Bishop, the revolutionary leader and prime minister of Grenada, was executed alongside seven others amid a power struggle in the…
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Data Brokers and the Sale of Data on U.S. Military Personnel
On November 6, researchers at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy issued a report on “Data Brokers and the Sale of Data on U.S. Military…
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Deepfakes and Human Subjects Protection with Aimee Nishimura
The use of deepfakes—a form of artificial intelligence known as deep learning to create manipulated or generated images, video, and audio—is on the rise. In…
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Ryan J. Reilly on the Sedition Hunters
Three weeks ago, an amazing new book came out about the prosecutions stemming from the Capitol Siege of Jan. 6, 2021. It’s called "Sedition Hunters: How…
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Anatomy of a Somali Drone Strike with Nick Turse
In August, the U.S. Africa Command, aka AFRICOM, reported that it had killed 13 al-Shabaab fighters in southern Somalia. Though the U.S. government said that…
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Rational Security: The ”Alan Revoir” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott bade a temporary farewell to Alan and spent one last afternoon (for a few months, anyway) digging into the…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Trump Ungagged
It's another edition of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on Nov. 9 before a live audience of Lawfare Material Supporters. To talk through this week…
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Lawfare Archive: Luke Murry and Daniel Silverberg on National Security in Congress
From March 2, 2019: It's hard to open a newspaper or turn on the television without hearing about the dysfunction and partisan polarization affecting members…
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Lawfare Archive: Jack Goldsmith on Obama's War Powers Legacy
From November 8, 2014: Last month, Jack gave a talk at the Hoover Institution on President Obama's war powers legacy. It's a remarkable address: hard-hitting…
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Chatter: Rachel Maddow on her book "Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism"
When she's not hosting The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow has been diving deep into the history of fascism in America. First on her podcast, Rachel…
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Fionnuala Ní Aoláin on Counterterrorism and Human Rights
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin completed a productive six-year tenure as the UN Special Rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights last week. Among other issues, she…
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Mike Johnson’s National Security Agenda
You probably already know that Rep. Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House. What you may not know is that every single one of the issues on his plate is…
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Data Brokers, Public Records, and Violence with Justin Sherman
In the debate about data privacy and harms, one issue has not received adequate attention by the press or in policy conversations relative to the severity and…
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Rational Security: The “Regulatory Cage Match” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Lawfare Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri to tackle some of the…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Judge Cannon, Section 3, and a Fulton County Update
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded live on Zoom before an audience of Lawfare Material Supporters. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: Stephanie Leutert on the Other Southern Border
From June 26, 2018: With the media and political commentators focused on family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, few are paying attention to how…
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The West Bank and the Israel-Hamas War
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 of the Mediterranean…
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Chatter: The British Empire's Territorial Peak, 100 Years Later, with Matthew Parker
The British Empire was already buckling under its own internal tensions in the 1920s. One hundred years later, historian and author Matthew Parker uses stories…
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A Criminal in the White House: How It Might Work and What It Might Mean
A few weeks ago, an organization that works in the democracy protection space asked Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes and Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R…
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What Disqualifying Trump from the 2024 Ballot Would Mean for American Politics and Democracy
In the wake of Donald Trump's role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, lawsuits in states around the country are…
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Breaking Down the Menendez Indictment with Dan Richman
It’s been a rough few months for Senator Bob Menendez. The powerful New Jersey Democrat has pleaded not guilty to federal charges related to an alleged bribery…
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October Minipod: Constitutional Crises in the U.S.
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Institution fellow…
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The Dangers of a Contingent Election with Beau Tremitiere and Aisha Woodward
We are a little more than a year out from the 2024 election—an election that, in countless ways, promises to be unlike any other. One way it may be different…
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Rational Security: The ”Covered in Lyes” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott came together in the virtual studio to talk over the week’s big national security news…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Three Pleas in a Pod
It's another episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” recorded live before an audience of Lawfare Material Supporters on Thursday. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: Amanda Sloat Talks Turkey
From July 3, 2018: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan won the Turkish election the other day, and becomes the first president under Turkey's new empowered presidential…
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The U.S. Diplomatic Response in Gaza with Akbar Shahid Ahmed and Robbie Gramer
It’s probably fair to say that the Israeli government was not the only one caught flat-footed by the deadly attack launched by Hamas on Oct. 7. On that day…
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Chatter: Lincoln, Leadership, and Difficult Conversations with Steve Inskeep
Many will recognize the voice of Steve Inskeep from his nearly two decades-long role hosting NPR's Morning Edition. But he's also the author of what is now a…
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Roger Parloff on a Potential Problem for the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 Prosecutions
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last week faintly endorsed the Justice Department’s reading of a critical felony charge, “corrupt obstruction of an official…
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Pleas Please Me, Jenna Ellis
Another morning, another surprise plea deal in Fulton County Superior Court. It was Jenna Ellis this time, in front of Judge Scott McAfee, pleading out of the…
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Rules for Civilian Hackers in War, with Tilman Rodenhäuser and Mauro Vignati
Thanks to advances in digital technologies, it is now easier than ever for civilians to get involved in military cyber operations. From private civilian…
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Comparing Approaches to AI Regulation with Arianna Evers and Itsiq Benizri
The promise and risks posed by artificial intelligence appear to have captured our collective imagination. The risks seem to span from global doom brought…
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Rational Security: The ”Third Ballot’s the Charm” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by their Lawfare colleague and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Senior Fellow…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: A Surprise Plea in Fulton County
It's another episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” our weekly YouTube livestream conducted on Zoom for Lawfare Material Supporters. It was a breaking…
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Lawfare Archive: Radek Sikorski on the Week's Events in Poland
From July 7, 2018: It's been a bad week for Polish democracy, with the government removing a bunch of judges from the country's Supreme Court in order to…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Crisis Facing Efforts to Counter Election Disinformation
Over the course of the last two presidential elections, efforts by social media platforms and independent researchers to prevent falsehoods from spreading…
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Chatter: The Secret History of Women at the CIA with Liza Mundy
Journalist Liza Mundy’s new history of the world’s most storied spy service focuses on the women of the CIA, who for decades worked in jobs that men found less…
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China’s Approach to Software Vulnerabilities Reporting
In July 2021, the Chinese government published its “Regulations on the Management of Network Product Security Vulnerabilities.” These rules require researchers…
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‘The Lumumba Plot’ with Stuart Reid
“Stories of armies, governments, agencies, and institutions have a way of obscuring the humans behind them,” writes Stuart Reid, an executive editor of Foreign…
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Part Two of the PCLOB on FISA Section 702
On September 28, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, or PCLOB, issued its long-awaited report on FISA Sec. 702, a surveillance authority that is…
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Part One of the PCLOB on FISA Section 702
On September 28, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, or PCLOB, issued its long-awaited report on FISA Sec. 702, a surveillance authority that is…
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Rational Security: The ”Israel and Hamas at War” Special Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes for a serious conversation about Hamas’s attacks…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Hearing Updates from Mar-a-Lago and Fulton County
It's another episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” our YouTube livestream conducted on Zoom for Lawfare Material Supporters. This week, we heard from…
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Lawfare Archive: Peter Berkowitz on Israel and the Laws of War
From May 8, 2012: Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution has a new book out, entitled Israel and the Struggle Over the International Laws of War. The book…
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What the Heck is a Speaker Pro Tempore?
The past two weeks have been a historical one for the House of Representatives. Last week, a band of dissident Republicans voted with House Democrats to remove…
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Chatter: Manic Depression and Crisis Leadership with Nassir Ghaemi
Conventional wisdom has long held that countries, and even businesses, should not be run by those suffering from mental illness, especially during times of war…
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Tino Cuéllar and Hadrien Pouget on AI Safety
Artificial intelligence has massive upside potential. It could revolutionize education, science, and art, and lead to a more prosperous and equitable world…
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Hamas’s Attack on Israel and What Comes Next
This past Saturday, the terrorist group Hamas launched an unprecedented raid from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel that left more than 1000 people—most of…
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Special Edition: Noah Efron on the Awful Quiet of This Moment
This morning, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes connected with his old friend Noah Efron about the weekend's events in Israel. Noah is a professor at…
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Taiwan, War Powers, and Constitutional Crisis with Scott R. Anderson
For decades, the United States has maintained a policy of “strategic ambiguity” toward Taiwan and China. But in recent years, this uneasy status quo has begun…
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Lawfare Archive: Trump Takes Aim at TikTok and WeChat
From August 12, 2020: President Trump recently issued executive orders aimed at banning TikTok and WeChat from operating in the United States. To discuss the…