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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 EditionThe Legal Arguments Behind Mike Pence’s January 6 Grand Jury Testimony
In April, former Vice President Mike Pence testified before a federal grand jury under subpoena as part of the special counsel’s investigation into January 6…
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Lawfare Archive: Nate Persily and Alex Stamos on Securing American Elections
From June 11, 2019: More than two years after the 2016 presidential election, new information continues to seep into the public about the extent of Russia's…
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Tim Wu on AI Regulation
Until this year, Tim Wu was Special Assistant to President Biden for competition and tech policy. One of the leading thinkers in progressive approach to…
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Rational Security: The “Mutiny in the Kitchen” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by their colleague and think-tank neighbor, Russia/Ukraine expert Eric Ciaramella, to talk…
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Lawfare 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…
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Nosmot Gbadamosi on South Africa’s ‘Putin Problem’
On Thursday, South Africa’s Department of International Relations confirmed it would host the 15th BRICS Summit in August. Normally, this wouldn’t make the…
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Chatter: Hacker Movies with Scott Shapiro
This week, Shane sits down with law professor and hacker historian Scott Shapiro to rant, and rave, about hacker movies. From War Games to the Die Hard…
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Talking Transparency With Meta’s Nick Clegg
How much transparency do big technology companies owe to their users? The question has become pointed in recent years as users, researchers, and politicians…
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Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
The United States in the early 21st century has been involved in a so-called “forever” war involving military threats, interventions, occupations…
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What the Hell Happened in Russia?
It was a heck of a weekend in Russia. There was an insurrection, kind of? A coup, sort of? A column of troops led by Wagner chieftain Yevgeny Prigozhin marched…
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Bulelani Jili on Africa’s Demand for and Adoption of Chinese Surveillance Technologies
Countries across Africa are procuring and employing surveillance tools from China. This trend is a product of China’s diplomatic strategy, its technological…
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Rational Security: The “Even Stephan” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by UVA Law Professor Paul Stephan to talk through the close-calls in this week’s national…
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Lawfare Archive: Austin Evers and Mike Stern on Congressional Oversight
From July 9, 2019: President Trump has declared that he will fight “all the subpoenas” coming from Congress and has claimed “absolute immunity” for White House…
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Large Language Negligence
As large language models like ChatGPT play an increasingly important role in our society, there will no doubt be examples of them causing harm. Lawsuits have…
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Chatter: Covering the January 6th Trials with Roger Parloff
Since joining Lawfare in November 2021, Roger Parloff has been a constant presence at the January 6th trials. Now based in Washington, D.C, he had, earlier in…
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Richard Gowan on the U.S. Push for UN Security Council Reform
At the United Nations, Russia's obstruction of efforts to respond to its invasion of Ukraine is finally sparking serious interest in an issue that has long…
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Protests, the Police, and the Press
Carolyn Cole, a Pulitzer-Prize winning staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, has covered wars and other conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kosovo…
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Stephanie Pell and Brian Kalt on How the Trump Indictment Will Affect the Trump Campaign and the Potential Trump Presidency
Last November, President Trump became candidate Trump when he formally announced his campaign to retake the White House in 2024. And when, earlier this month…
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Bonus Minipod: Countering Political Violence in the United States
June Minipod episode! Lawfare’s Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey sat down with Daniel Byman, a professor at Georgetown University's Walsh School…
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Lawfare Archive: What to Make of the Mueller Report
From April 19, 2019: A redacted version of the 448-page Mueller report dropped yesterday, and there’s a lot to say about it. In this Special Edition of the…
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Rational Security: The “You Want Her in The Line—You NEED Her in The Line” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Lawfare Legal Fellow Anna Bower fresh from the Miami court system to discuss the week's…
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Lawfare Archive: Preserving Justice Department Independence
From April 28, 2018: On Thursday, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates hosted a conference at Georgetown Law on the future of American democracy. Matt…
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Michael Gerrard on Held v. Montana
On Monday, 16 young plaintiffs—between the ages of 5 and 22—walked into a packed courtroom in Helena, Montana, to sue their government. At issue is a 1972…
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Chatter: Water, Security, and Conflict with Peter Gleick
Water, essential to the emergence and endurance of life on Earth, has both spurred technological advances and driven many types of conflict. For the first time…
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We Need To Talk About the Espionage Act
The first 31 counts of the Trump Mar-a-Lago indictment all are under the Espionage Act, which has led to a lot of confusion because Trump is not accused of…
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Debriefing with Anna Bower
Donald Trump was arraigned Tuesday in Miami, FL, in connection with the Mar-a-Lago indictment. Lawfare's Fulton County Correspondent Anna Bower was in the…
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Read With Me: The Trump Indictment
This weekend, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes had a conversation on Read With Me, a by-subscription-only podcast associated with Ben’s Substack Dog…
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Brian Greer on Silent Witnesses
The indictment filed last week against former President Donald Trump involves hundreds of classified documents, and the first 31 charges involve mishandling…
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Rational Security: The “Air Quality Fuchsia” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott braved the haze to talk through the week’s (very) big national security news stories…
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Lawfare Archive: Ben Buchanan on 'The Hacker and the State'
From February 26, 2020: Ben Buchanan is a professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a scholar on cybersecurity and statecraft. He…
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Emergency Podcast: Former President Trump Indicted in Mar-A-Lago Probe
On June 8, former President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he has been indicted in Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the improper…
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Justin Sherman on Regulating the Data Broker Industry
The data broker industry and its role in the digital economy is under scrutiny from Congress. Lawfare Senior Editor Stephanie Pell sat down with Justin…
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Chatter: Genealogy and Intelligence Analysis with Lisa Maddox
Shane and David have hosted many former intelligence officers, mostly of the American variety, during more than 80 episodes so far on Chatter. But, until this…
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Dam Breaks and Pipeline Bombings
A large dam on the Dnipro River has been destroyed, causing massive flooding and a dangerous environmental catastrophe in southern Ukraine. The Ukrainians are…
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How is Lula Doing?
On January 1, 2023, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as president of Brazil. A week later, insurrectionists in Brazil stormed government buildings…
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Catching up with Jack Smith's Mar-A-Lago Investigation
On May 31, CNN reported that federal prosecutors investigating the unlawful removal of classified documents from the White House to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago…
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Gabe Rottman on the Justice Department's New Guidelines on Press Subpoenas
It's been about six months since the Attorney General issued new guidelines on compulsory process to members of the press in criminal and national security…
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Rational Security: The “Pun Moll” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by their Brookings and Lawfare colleague Molly Reynolds to talk all things Congress in the…
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Lawfare Archive: Rosa Brooks on ‘How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything’
From October 1, 2016: At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Rosa Brooks joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about her new book, “How Everything Became War and the…
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Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet
It is often said that “Russia is a country with an unpredictable past.” Such distortions of history can lead to trouble, as the world witnessed last year when…
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Chatter: Information Ecology with Alicia Wanless
Alicia Wanless is one of the pioneers of the idea of information ecology, the notion that we should think about information and disinformation as part of a…
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The Wagner Group, Bakhmut, and a New Phase in the Ukraine War
The war in Ukraine is approaching a pivotal moment. Russia remains in control of the hotly contested city of Bakhmut. But the ruthlessly effective mercenary…
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Erdoğan Wins Reelection in Turkey
On Sunday, May 28, Turkey held a bitterly contested run-off election, with incumbent presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan winning reelection against…
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Tim Mak on The Counteroffensive
Tim Mak was an NPR reporter in Kyiv since the beginning of the full-scale invasion last year. He recently stepped down and started his own Substack from the…
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Lawfare Archive: Shaun Walker on Russia's Long Hangover
From January 20, 2018: This week on the Lawfare Podcast, the Guardian's Moscow correspondent Shaun Walker joined special guest host Alina Polyakova to discuss…
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Chatter: Popular Presidential Communication with Anne Pluta
From the birth of the republic, American presidents have communicated with the public in one form or another. The frequency and exact nature of such efforts…
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Lawfare Archive: Michelle Melton on Climate Change as a National Security Threat
From April 16, 2019: Since November, Lawfare Contributor Michelle Melton has run a series on our website about Climate Change and National Security, examining…
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Roger Parloff on the Oath Keeper Sentences
Thursday was sentencing day for some senior Oath Keepers, and Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff spent the day in court listening to and watching the…
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Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a bomb built by Timothy McVeigh exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. One…
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The Big Internet Case That Wasn't
The Supreme Court last week issued the biggest opinion in the history of the internet—except that it didn’t. Rather, it issued an opinion in a case involving…
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The Dark History of the Information Age
Hacking and cybersecurity are evergreen issues, in the news and on Lawfare. Scott Shapiro, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of…
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Patrick Weil on ‘The Madman in the White House’
In November 1919, President Woodrow Wilson came out in opposition to a compromise that would have resulted in Senate ratification of the Versailles Treaty and…
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Rational Security: The “Low Down Dirty Shane” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan and Scott were joined by co-host emeritus (and Washington Post star reporter) Shane Harris to talk over the week's news!…
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Lawfare Archive: Cheap Fakes on the Campaign Trail
From September 9, 2020: It was a big week for manipulated video and audio content. In just 36 hours, senior republicans or people associated with the Trump…
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Alex Iftimie on DOJ’s Recent Cyber Disruption Efforts
Over the past two weeks, the Department of Justice has issued two press releases announcing disruption efforts it has taken against malicious cyber actors. One…
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Chatter: ‘Special Military Operations’ Against the Russians with Benjamin Wittes
On April 13, 2022, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes conducted his first “special military operation” at…
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Crack-Up Capitalism with Quinn Slobodian
Think about the world. You might be picturing a globe in a classroom, with its patchwork of multi-colored nations. Or perhaps you have an image of a 2-D map in…
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Inside the Capitol Police’s Intelligence Dysfunction
The House’s select committee on Jan. 6 may have wound down its work at the end of December 2022, but questions about why law enforcement, including the U.S…
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The Shadow Docket
In recent years, the Supreme Court's non-merits “shadow docket” has become a topic of contestation and controversy, especially the Court's emergency orders…
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The Law of the Sea in the Age of Climate Change
Though the threat of climate change has come sharply into focus in recent decades, humans have long endeavored to shape and reshape the natural world, carving…