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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 EditionChatter: Spotting Fake News with Cindy Otis
Fake news has been around for thousands of years in different forms that have changed with media technology, and there's little doubt that it's here to stay…
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Lawfare Archives: Liza Osetinskaya on Journalistic Freedom Under Putin
From March 20, 2018: Shortly before last Sunday’s election in Russia, Alina Polyakova spoke to Liza Osetinskaya, editor of The Bell and former editor in chief…
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John Gleeson on ‘The Gotti Wars’
John Gotti was the boss of the Gambino Crime Family in New York City and one of America's most notorious mobsters. Nicknamed “The Teflon Don” for his ability…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Corporate Law Behind Musk v. Twitter
You’ve likely heard that Elon Musk wanted to buy Twitter… and that he is now trying to get out of buying Twitter… and that at first he wanted to defeat the…
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The Secret Service Text Crisis
The United States Secret Service is in the spotlight once again—this time because of deleted texts for the time surrounding January 6, 2021—and the…
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Derek Muller on Moore v. Harper and Independent State Legislature Doctrine
At the end of its past term, the Supreme Court took up the case of Moore v. Harper, a challenge to North Carolina State Supreme Court rulings on elections that…
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Adkins and Alperovitch Talk About the Cyber Safety Review Board and Log4j
The Cyber Safety Review Board issued its first major report this month, which focused on the Log4j disaster. So, what is the Cyber Safety Review Board, and…
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Lawfare Archive: The Forgotten War Remembered
From July 20, 2020: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. Though often called the "Forgotten War," the Korean War has highly…
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Lawfare No Bull: Day Eight of the Jan. 6 Committee Hearings
Lawfare No Bull is a podcast featuring primary source audio from the world of national security law and policy. This episode features audio from the Jan. 6…
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Jan. 6 Hearings, Day Eight Debrief
The final hearing in the spree of hearings the Jan. 6 committee has put on this summer took place Thursday evening during prime time. It focused on Donald…
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The Senate's Proposal for Electoral Count Act Reform
The false claims of election fraud and other controversies that followed the 2020 election brought to light a number of frailties in the United States system…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionOnline Speech and Section 230 After Dobbs
When the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade, the impact of the decision on the…
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Ryan Scoville on the Role of Subnational Diplomacy in China’s Pursuit of U.S. Technology
Over the past two decades, the Chinese government has cooperated extensively with U.S. state governments on economic issues, replacing Canada as the country…
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Swedish and Finnish Security Awaiting NATO Membership
In recent weeks, we've brought you information and insight about Swedish and Finnish attitudes toward NATO membership, and about Turkey's machinations…
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What's up with the Fulton County Special Grand Jury
Earlier this month, the Fulton County special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference into Georgia's 2020 elections subpoenaed members of…
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Live From Ukraine: Katya Savchenko Survived Bucha—and Wrote About It
#LiveFromUkraine is an experimental project hosted on Twitter Spaces by Ben Wittes, with the goal of interviewing a diverse lineup of guests to educate and…
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Lawfare Archive: An NSI Conversation on Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and U.S. Policy
From April 9, 2019: On this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, our friends at the National Security Institute at George Mason University came over to have a…
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Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy
Global crises of the last 20 years have led to a backlash against elites of all kinds, but those same crises often lay bare just how much power they still…
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When Doctors Spread Disinformation
Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve talked a lot on this show about how falsehoods about the coronavirus are spread and generated. For this episode…
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How Mercenary Hackers Sway Litigation Battles
The “hackers for hire” industry continues to grow unbothered. Reports in recent years have uncovered details about governments and officials using spyware and…
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The Paradox of Democracy
We often use the terms democracy and liberal democracy interchangeably, but they're not the same thing. Democracy means majority rule and public participation…
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Rational Security: The "Life After Cassidy" edition
Rational Security is a weekly roundtable podcast featuring Quinta Jurecic, Scott R. Anderson and Alan Z. Rozenshtein. It's a lively, irreverent discussion of…
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Lawfare Archive: John Sipher on Spy Swaps
From January 8th, 2019: On this episode of the Lawfare podcast, David Priess sat down with John Sipher to discuss the past, present and future history of spy…
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Aaron Friedberg on "Getting China Wrong"
For decades, experts and analysts have written in great detail about the importance of liberalization and its role in promoting democracy and other western…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionWhat We Talk About When We Talk About Algorithms
Algorithms! We hear a lot about them. They drive social media platforms and, according to popular understanding, are responsible for a great deal of what’s…
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Turkey, NATO and Alliance Membership
Earlier this year, Finland and Sweden applied to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But both of their applications were held up, due to an objection…
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How the Police Contributed to the January 6th Insurrection
Many individual police officers acted heroically on January 6th. But the successful attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, seeking to disrupt the…
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Lawfare No Bull: Day 6, House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
Today we’re bringing you another episode of Lawfare No Bull, a podcast featuring primary source audio from the world of national security law and policy…
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Lawfare No Bull: Day 5, House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
Today we’re bringing you another episode of Lawfare No Bull, a podcast featuring primary source audio from the world of national security law and policy…
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Chatter: Secret Service Dilemmas and Training with Jon Wackrow
Chatter, a podcast from Lawfare, features weekly long-form conversations with fascinating people at the creative edges of national security. This week on…
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Memorializing Babyn Yar after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
When a Russian missile recently struck a TV tower in Kyiv, near Babyn Yar, the site of Nazi mass murders during the Holocaust, some saw the attack as a potent…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Jan. 6 Committee Takes On the Big Lie
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is midway through a blockbuster series of hearings exploring Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the…
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The Jan. 6 Committee, Day Six
It was a blockbuster day at the Jan. 6 committee hearings. Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows testified in riveting…
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Andrea Matwyshyn and DOJ’s new CFAA Charging Policy
On May 19, the Department of Justice announced a new policy concerning how it will charge cases under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, the primary…
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All About Legionnaires
An interesting subplot of the Russian invasion and subsequent war in Ukraine has been the rush of fighters from other countries to join the Ukrainian foreign…
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Chatter: Misremembering Watergate and Jan. 6 with Tim Naftali
Chatter, a podcast from Lawfare, features weekly long-form conversations with fascinating people at the creative edges of national security.This week on…
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Lawfare Archive: Niall Ferguson on Catastrophes and How to Manage Them
From May 4, 2021: 2020 was a remarkable year in so many ways, not least of which was the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects. Why did so many countries bungle…
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The Jan. 6 Committee Hearings, Day Five
It was Day Five of the House select committee hearings on Jan. 6. This time, the committee was focused on the president's efforts to pressure, and one may even…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRebroadcast: The Most Intense Online Disinformation Event in American History
If you’ve been watching the hearings convened by the House select committee on Jan. 6, you’ve seen a great deal about how the Trump campaign generated and…
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The Jan. 6 Committee Hearings, Day Four
Tuesday was day four of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, this time on Donald Trump's efforts to coax, cajole, and threaten state election officials and…
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Byman and Mir Debate al-Qaeda
Asfandyar Mir of the U.S. Institute of Peace and Daniel Byman of Lawfare, Brookings, and Georgetown, are both analysts of al-Qaeda and terrorist groups. They…
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Lawfare No Bull: Day 3, House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
Today we’re bringing you another episode of Lawfare No Bull, a podcast featuring primary source audio from the world of national security law and policy…
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Lawfare No Bull: Hearing Two: United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
Today we’re bringing you another episode of Lawfare No Bull, a podcast featuring primary source audio from the world of national security law and policy…
- The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
Lawfare No Bull: United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
Today we’re bringing you an episode of Lawfare No Bull, a podcast featuring primary source audio from the world of national security law and policy. This…
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The Jan. 6 Hearings, Day Three
On Thursday, June 16, the Jan. 6 committee held its third day of public hearings. Afterwards, the Lawfare team convened once again in Twitter Spaces for a…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionDefamation, Disinformation, and the Depp-Heard Trial
If you loaded up the internet or turned on the television somewhere in the United States over the last two months, it’s been impossible to avoid news coverage…
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Allies: How America Failed its Partners in Afghanistan
On Monday, the Brookings Institution hosted a panel discussion titled, “Allies: How America failed its partners in Afghanistan.” The event featured comments…
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The Jan. 6 Hearings, Day Two
Recorded almost immediately after the Jan. 6 committee conducted its second public hearing, Benjamin Wittes sat down on Twitter Spaces with Lawfare’s Quinta…
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Roger Parloff Talks Madison Cawthorn, Donald Trump, and Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
Lawfare senior editor Roger Parloff has been following in a way that just about nobody else has the litigation to keep people off ballots under Section 3 of…
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Chatter: Private Sector Intelligence with Lewis Sage-Passant
When the term "intelligence" comes up regarding an organization, most of us immediately think of government institutions. And there's a good reason for that…
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Day One of the Jan. 6 Committee Hearings
On Thursday, the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack held the first in a series of public hearings that they will use to present…
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Oleksandra Matviychuk on Documenting Russian War Crimes in Ukraine
Oleksandra Matviychuk is the head of the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine. She founded the organization to work on internal reform in her own country, but…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Supreme Court Blocks the Texas Social Media Law
On May 31, by a five-four vote, the Supreme Court blocked a Texas law from going into effect that would have sharply limited how social media companies could…
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An Empirical Analysis of Targeted Killing
What does the American public actually know concretely about the effectiveness of U.S. drone strikes? Jack Goldsmith sat down with Mitt Regan, a professor at…
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Public Choice Theory and American Foreign Policy
What, if any, theory of international relations best explains U.S. foreign policy outcomes? Why, for example, did President Biden withdraw American forces from…
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Lindsey Polley on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process
The business of offensive cyber operations and intelligence gathering increasingly requires the military and intelligence community to exploit networks…
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Chatter: The Secrets of Gay Washington with Jamie Kirchick
This week on Chatter, Shane Harris talks with journalist Jamie Kirchick about his new book Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington. Kirchick’s story…
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Lawfare Archive: Casey Newton on Four Years of Platform Chaos
From October 29, 2020: On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Casey Newton…
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Are Big Sanctions Coming for a Chinese Tech Company?
In May, news came out that the U.S. government was thinking of putting the Chinese video surveillance company Hikvision on the Treasury Department’s Specially…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionBringing in the Content Moderation Auditors
As transparency reporting about content moderation enforcement has become standard across the platform industry, there's been growing questions about the…