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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 EditionRational Security: The “(Deep State) Friends We Make Along the Way” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee and Senior Editors Eric Columbus and Molly Roberts to talk through the…
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Lawfare Daily: Can State Laws Protect Against Misuse of the National Guard?
On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sits down with Liza Goitein and Joseph Nunn of the Liberty and Security Program at the Brennan Center, and…
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Ask Lawfare Anything: July 2026
On this month's Ask Lawfare Anything, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Foreign Policy Editors Dan Byman and Dana Stuster to answer…
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Lawfare Daily: Inside Zelensky’s Disastrous Decision to Fire Ukraine’s Minister of Defense
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Francis Farrell, a front line reporter at the Kyiv Independent, about the Ukrainian…
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Lawfare Daily: How To Make a Patriot, with Fabian Hoffman
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Fabian Hoffman, a senior research fellow at the Programme for Ukraine and…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 17
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Roger…
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Lawfare Archive: A Chilling Violation of Press Freedoms in Marion, Kansas
From August 25, 2023: Earlier this month, there was big trouble in little Marion, Kansas, where an entire police department raided the offices of the Marion…
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Lawfare Archive: Should the U.S. Sanction the ICC, with Nema Milaninia
From February 3, 2025: Nema Milaninia, a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Live: Breaking Down President Trump's Primetime Address on Elections
On July 17 at 11am ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Michael Feinberg and Molly Roberts and Lawfare Contributing…
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Lawfare Daily: Consent in the Age of AI
Lawfare Senior Editor Renée DiResta sits down with Senior Editor Kate Klonick and Elissa Redmiles, an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Hip to Be a Square State” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his colleagues Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee, and Lawfare Contributing…
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Lawfare Daily: What Do the Russians Actually Think About the War?
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Maria Snegovaya, a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the Center for Strategic…
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Lawfare Daily: AI Targeting Systems Are Coming—But Not as Fast as You Think
On this episode, Senior Editor Kate Klonick speaks with Steve Feldstein, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about his recent…
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Lawfare Daily: Taking Stock of the Ukraine-Russia Talks
Lawfare Contributing Editor Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Eric Ciaramella, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Samuel…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 10
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Roger…
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Lawfare Archive: How CISA Is Working to Protect the Election
From October 30, 2024: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken a leading role in coordinating efforts to secure the 2024…
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Lawfare Archive: What French Politics Means for Europe and the United States
From April 10, 2025: On today's episode, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett spoke with Tara Varma, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the latest in…
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Lawfare Daily: Prophecy, Prediction, and Power with Carissa Véliz
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Carissa Véliz, an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Scoot Over” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Editor in Chief and co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes and Senior Editors Anna Bower and Michael Feinberg…
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Lawfare Daily: Nuclear Weapons in the Age of AI, with Joshua Keating
For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Vox Senior Correspondent Joshua Keating to discuss his special new series on how…
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Lawfare Daily: The Military, Elections, and the Law
Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes talks with Executive Editor Natalie Orpett and Senior Editors Loren Voss and Molly Roberts about the limits the Constitution…
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Lawfare Daily: What's Happening at ODNI?
On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett talks with Lawfare Senior Editor Mike Feinberg and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee about the…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 2
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Kate Klonick, Molly Roberts, and Roger…
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Lawfare Archive: The National Intelligence Strategy with Michael Collins of the National Intelligence Council
From September 1, 2023: The National Intelligence Strategy is out, and David Kris, a founder of Culper Partners, sat down to talk about it with Michael…
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Lawfare Archive: Civil Military Relations in the Trump Administration
From July 2, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviews Lindsay Cohn, an associate professor at the Naval War College and…
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Lawfare Archive: Exploding Pagers and Air Strikes
From September 24, 2024: Israel and Hezbollah seem to be headed for a major war. Over the past several weeks, Israel has taken a series of escalatory steps…
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Lawfare Daily: What the Supreme Court Said About the President's Power Over Independent Agencies
On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett talks with Nick Bednar, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and a contributing editor at…
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Lawfare Daily: Trump's Cuba Problem
Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Professor Javier Corrales, Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science and Department Chair…
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Lawfare Daily: ‘The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI’—A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
On this episode of Lawfare Daily, Senior Editor Kate Klonick and Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein speak with Cory Doctorow—science fiction author, activist…
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June Minipod: Can the Department of Justice Be Fixed?
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg about whether and how a…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 26
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff to…
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Lawfare Archive: How's the Iran Deal Really Going?
From June 4, 2016: This week, the Brookings Institution held an event on a new Brookings report on implementation of the Iran Deal: The Joint Comprehensive…
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Lawfare Archive: Camille François on Covid-19 and the ABCs of Disinformation
From April 16, 2020: On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Camille François, the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Happy FrAIday” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Kevin Frazier, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts to talk through some of the week’s big news in AI…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: 'The God Test': AI as Cosmic Reckoning, with Robert Wright
Alan Rozenshtein, Research Director at Lawfare, speaks with Robert Wright—author of "Nonzero," "The Moral Animal," "The Evolution of God," and "Why Buddhism Is…
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Lawfare Daily: Excavating Arctic Frost
Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes and Senior Editor Michael Feinberg discuss the methods and techniques the FBI used to investigate Donald Trump as part…
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Lawfare Daily: Attorney General Blanche’s Purported Waiver of Pres. Trump’s Past Tax Liabilities
Brandon DeBot and Kelsey Merrick, of NYU’s Tax Law Center, speak to Senior Editor Roger Parloff about Attorney General Todd Blanche’s purported waiver of…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 22
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpetta sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff to…
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Lawfare Daily: Military Education and American Manhood with Jasper Craven
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Jasper Craven, a freelance reporter covering the military and veterans’ issues, to…
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Lawfare Archive: Kevin Xu on the State of the AI Arms Race Between the U.S. and China
From December 9, 2024: Kevin Xu, founder of Interconnected Capital and author of the Interconnected newsletter, joins Kevin Frazier, Senior Research Fellow in…
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Lawfare Archive: DOGE’s Attack on the Treasury Department
From February 21, 2025: Before January, most Americans had probably never heard of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS), a Treasury Department agency that…
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Lawfare Archive: Klein and Cordero on the Latest FISA Numbers
From May 31, 2022: A few weeks ago, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the latest FISA transparency data. It was notable in at least…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Predestination” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with cohost emeritus and Lawfare Research Director Alan Rozenshtein, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, Lawfare Public Service…
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Lawfare Daily: The Department of Justice, or the Department of Revenge?
Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Devlin Barrett, a journalist and author of the new book, “The Department of Revenge: How Trump Took…
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Ask Lawfare Anything: June 2026
On June 17 at 12pm ET, Natalie Orpett, Executive Editor, Molly Roberts, Senior Editor, and Loren Voss, Senior Editor answered questions from Lawfare paid…
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Lawfare Daily: A Breakthrough in Ukraine’s EU Accession Talks
Ukraine Fellow Anastasia Lapatina sits down with Chris Powers, the Brussels correspondent at the Kyiv Independent, to discuss the recent progress in Ukraine's…
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Lawfare Daily: For-Profit Cage-Fighting at the White House
Brendan Ballou, founder and CEO of the Public Integrity Project, speaks with Senior Editor Roger Parloff about his group’s case, Douglas v. National Parks…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 12
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Senior Editor Eric Columbus sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss litigation…
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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…
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Lawfare Archive: David Clements, the Evangelist of Election Refusal, with Anna Bower and Ben Wittes
From November 1, 2024: Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower and Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sit down with Senior Editor Roger Parloff to discuss David…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Forbidden Fruit” Edition
This week, Scott was joined by his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Michael Feinberg, and Molly Roberts to talk through the week’s big news in national…
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Lawfare Daily: How Escalations in Lebanon May Prolong the Iran War, with Joel Braunold
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Joel Braunold, the Managing Director of the Center Project, for the latest in their…
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Lawfare Daily: Why Immigrants are Challenging the Conditions of their Detention
The Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies have resulted in an unprecedented number of people being held in detention facilities…
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Lawfare Daily: Congressional Resolutions to End the War in Iran
On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett speaks with Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson about what Congress can do to direct the president to end the…
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Lawfare Daily: Lies, Laws, and Campaigns
Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Andrew Weissmann to discuss Weissmann’s new book, “Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America,”…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 5
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and…
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Lawfare Archive: A Victory for Guatemalan Democracy
From February 12, 2024: On January 15, Bernardo Arévalo took office as the new president of Guatemala. The transfer of power had been far from assured: after…
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Lawfare Archive: Social Security, the ‘Death Master File,’ and Immigration Enforcement
From May 2, 2025: As the Trump administration seeks to escalate its immigration crackdown, the government has turned to a concerning source of information for…
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Lawfare Daily: The Jan. 6 Pardonee Crime Wave with Katherine Pompilio
In a new report for Lawfare, Associate Editor Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 of the more than 1,500 individuals granted clemency by President Trump for their…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Mosquitos and Heat and Sweaty and Eww” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina and Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, and Lawfare Contributing Editor and…