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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 EditionChina’s NFT Plans for Digital Control
Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, have captured the attention of thousands over the past few weeks and months. This technology's use has encompassed various forms…
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Klein and Cordero on the Latest FISA Numbers
A few weeks ago, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the latest FISA transparency data. It was notable in at least two major respects…
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Chatter: The Movie "Casablanca" in Myth and Reality with Meredith Hindley
Chatter is a podcast hosted by David Priess and Shane Harris that features in-depth discussions with fascinating people at the creative edges of national…
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Rational Security 2.0: The “Walk of Shane” 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: Bill Banks on ‘Soldiers on the Homefront’
From November 19, 2016: At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Bill Banks, Professor of Law at Syracuse University and the Founding…
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Phil Klay on Citizenship in an Age of Endless Invisible War
Bryce Klehm sat down with Phil Klay, the author of the new book, “Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless Invisible War.” Klay is a winner of the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionSocial Media Platforms and the Buffalo Shooting
On May 14, a shooter attacked a supermarket in a historically Black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, killing ten people and wounding three. The streaming…
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Finnish and Swedish Perspectives on NATO Membership
Finland and Sweden have made the historic choice to apply to NATO, but there's a lot of misunderstanding out there about the context for these decisions. To…
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Kristen Eichensehr on the Cyberwar that Wasn't in Ukraine
For years, Russia has both officially and unofficially used cyber tools to ruthlessly advance its international agenda. For this reason, many expected Russia's…
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The Collapse of the Afghan Security Forces
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, known by its initials as SIGAR, released an interim report last week on the reasons for the…
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Rational Security: The “Shameless Self Promotion” Edition
Rational Security is Lawfare’s weekly roundtable podcast, featuring Quinta Jurecic, Scott R. Anderson and Alan Z. Rozenshtein. It's a lively and irreverent…
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Lawfare Archive: Elizabeth Neumann and Kathleen Belew on White Power Violence
From September 21, 2020: Elizabeth Neumann served as the assistant secretary for threat prevention and security policy at the Department of Homeland Security…
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UAPs, UFOs, WTF?
Congress this week held its first public hearing on unidentified flying objects in more than 50 years, as the House Intelligence Committee’s Subcommittee on…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Platforms versus Texas in the Supreme Court
On May 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit allowed an aggressive new Texas law regulating social media to go into effect. The law, known as…
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Catching Up with the Steve Bannon Contempt Prosecution
In October 2021, the House of Representatives voted to find Trump associate Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress after Bannon refused to comply with a subpoena…
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Allies
Bryce Klehm is an associate editor at Lawfare. Max Johnston is a creative producer at Goat Rodeo. Together, they are the creators of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo’s…
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Oil Wars in Myth and Reality, with Emily Meierding
During the past couple of months, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there have been several claims that Russia was invading its neighbor to seize its oil…
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The Aftermath, Episode 3: Congress Responds
For today's episode, the team at Lawfare decided to cross-post the latest episode of The Aftermath, a narrative podcast series from Lawfare and Goat Rodeo on…
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Lawfare Archive: Biden Announces a Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan
From April 16, 2021: On Wednesday, President Biden announced a full withdrawal of all U.S. military personnel from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, an…
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A Scandal at the UN
David Fahrenthold is a reporter who works for the New York Times. In his capacity as a reporter at the Washington Post, he reported on misdeeds within the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionWhen Governments Turn Off the Internet
Internet blackouts are on the rise. Since 2016, governments around the world have fully or partially shut down access to the internet almost 1000 times…
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Dmytro Kuzubov on Doing Journalism in Kharkiv During the War
Dmytro Kuzubov is the editor-in-chief of Lyuk Media in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It is a publication that used to be devoted to the culture and people and underground…
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Lawfare’s Research on Trusting Technology
Modern life relies on digital technology, but with that reliance comes vulnerability. How can we trust our technology? How can we be sure that it does what we…
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Sejal Zota on ICE Tracking Technologies
Many individuals seeking asylum or other forms of immigration relief in the U.S. are subject to a program run by Immigration Customs Enforcement, or ICE…
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Lawfare No Bull: Matt Olsen Talks Cyber Threats and the ODNI's Latest Report
Today on Lawfare No Bull: On April 29, at the 2022 Verify Conference hosted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Aspen Institute, journalist…
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Lawfare Archive: Bruce Riedel on Al Qaeda's Many Faces
From August 5, 2012: Ritika Singh sat down with Bruce Riedel, one of the country’s leading experts on Al Qaeda. Riedel’s long and impressive career speaks for…
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Ensuring the Continuity of Congress
The COVID-19 pandemic, disputed elections and threats against election officials have brought back into focus a set of questions first raised for many after…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionPay Attention to Europe’s Digital Services Act
While the U.S. Congress has been doing hearing after hearing with tech executives that include a lot of yelling and not much progress, Europe has been quietly…
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Catarina Buchatskiy on The Shadows Project
Catarina Buchatskiy was—until a couple of months ago—a student at Stanford University. For the past couple of years, she has run The Shadows Project, an online…
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Cybersecurity and Ukraine at Verify 2022
Hosted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Cyber Initiative and Aspen Digital, Verify 2022 brings together journalists and cyber and tech policy…
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What the War in Ukraine Means for China’s Global Strategy
Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine is putting one of its closest partners, China, in a difficult position. Just weeks before the conflict began, China and…
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Rational Security 2.0: The “In Lieu of Q” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan Rozenshtein and Scott R. Anderson were joined by Lawfare executive editor Natalie Orpett and law professor extraordinaire…
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Lawfare Archive: Daniel Byman on Al Qaeda and its Affiliates
From August 22, 2012: This is the second in a series of interviews Ritika Singh is doing with scholars around town who have non-legal expertise that bears on…
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Understanding the Legal Decision that Ended the Mask Mandate and What Comes Next
Last week, a federal district judge in Florida named Kathryn Mizelle struck down the Biden administration's policy requiring that individuals wear masks on…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Professionalization of Content Moderation
This week on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek spoke to Charlotte Willner, who has been working in content…
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Finlandization’s Harsh Realities, with Antti Ruokonen
Finlandization is a troubled concept. It is generally used to describe the attempt by the Soviet Union during the Cold War to hold Finland in a position of…
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Vladislav Davidzon with a Dispatch from Odessa
Vladislav Davidzon is a journalist and author. He is a New Yorker, a Parisian and an Odessa resident. He's the author of “From Odessa with Love: Political and…
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Emily Hoge on the Strange Evolution of Russian Veterans Organizations
Emily Hoge is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, writing a dissertation on Russian veterans groups from the Afghan war and their…
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Chatter: Spy Satire with Alex Finley
In this episode of Chatter, a podcast hosted by David Priess and Shane Harris that features in-depth discussions with fascinating people at the creative edges…
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Lawfare Archive: Bruce Riedel on the Lessons From Afghanistan
From July 12, 2014: As the election crisis in Afghanistan comes to a head, all eyes—or some of them, anyway—are once again on the future of Afghan democracy…
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Ukraine and the Future of National Security Law
In this live recording of the Lawfare Live event, “Ukraine and the Future of National Security Law,” Natalie Orpett moderated a panel of experts, including…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionTaylor Lorenz on Taking Internet Culture Seriously
This week on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with a reporter who has carved out a…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Faces Insurrection Questions
Monday evening on the Tucker Carlson show, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was complaining that she had to submit to sworn questioning in connection with…
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Yascha Mounk on the Future of Diverse Democracies
Throughout human history, democracies have been the exception, not the rule, and that's been doubly true for ethnically, religiously or linguistically diverse…
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Scott Anderson on an Overlooked Presidential Election Vulnerability
Scott R. Anderson is a senior editor at Lawfare, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow with the National Security Law Program at Columbia…
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Lawfare Archive: FBI Director Wray on Combating Cyberthreats
From March 6, 2019: Susan Hennessey interviewed FBI Director Chris Wray at the 2019 RSA Conference. They discussed how the Director views the cyber threat…
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Lawfare Archive: Stephen Tankel on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Lashkar-e-Taiba
From November 14, 2012: Ritika Singh interviews American University scholar Stephen Tankel on Pakistani counterterrorism cooperation, the endgame in…
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Larry Jacobs on America's Broken Political Process
American political life is defined by what can seem like a paradox. Our society is incredibly politically polarized, but our parties are as weak as they've…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionBringing Evidence of War Crimes From Twitter to the Hague
The internet is increasingly emerging as a source for identification and documentation of war crimes, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine has devastatingly…
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Round One of France’s Presidential Election
Over the weekend, France held the first round of its presidential elections for 2022. The result was that the same two candidates as last time will move on to…
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What’s Going On in Pakistani Politics?
Over the weekend, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, a former international cricket star who later ascended to the role of prime minister, was removed from…
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The Legislative Dog That Hasn’t Barked
The period after Watergate and President Nixon's resignation saw an unprecedented barrage of congressional efforts at reforming the executive branch. The…
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Lawfare Archive: Peter Pomerantsev on the War Against Reality
From December 19, 2019: In this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Peter Pomerantsev, a research…
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Lawfare Archive: Yemen's Ongoing Tragedy
From August 26, 2020: Yemen is home to the most tragic circumstances imaginable right now—years upon years of war, environmental disasters and severe…
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Countering Extremism Within the Military
Last week on Lawfare Live, Jacob Schulz sat down with Andrew Mines, a research fellow at George Washington University’s Program on Extremism. Mines helps lead…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionHow the Press and the Platforms Handled the Hunter Biden Laptop
We’re taking a look back at one of the stranger stories about social media platforms and the role of the press in the last presidential election. In the weeks…
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How Russia's War in Ukraine Affects Energy and Climate Security
In the last few weeks, much has been said about how energy issues are playing into Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. It's especially coming up in the context of…
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Paul Massaro on the United States’ Latest Efforts to Combat Corruption
On June 3, President Biden issued a national security memorandum that established the “Fight Against Corruption” as a core national security interest for the…
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The Legacy of Madeleine Albright, with Kori Schake and Natalie Orpett
Madeleine Albright passed away on March 23. She was the first woman to serve as secretary of state in United States history, and she had a long legacy, both…
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Lawfare Archive: WTF, Ukraine!
From October 1, 2019: The first two years of the Trump presidency were tied up with the Russia scandal. Now, there’s another scandal involving Russia’s…