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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 EditionLawfare Archive: ICE, CBP and Coronavirus Response
From April 13, 2020: Whether it has been travel bans, family separation, or changes to asylum rules, the Trump administration has long been embroiled in…
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Andrea Chalupa on 'Mr. Jones' and Russia and Ukraine, Then and Now
Andrea Chalupa is a writer, podcaster and Ukrainian American who worked for 15 years on a screenplay about a man named Gareth Jones, a journalist who uncovered…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionWhat’s in the U.K. Online Safety Bill?
This week on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information environment, we’re turning our attention to the United Kingdom, where the government has…
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Foreign Fighters in Ukraine
In the hours following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's foreign minister tweeted out a call for what he called an international legion of fighters to…
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Juliette Kayyem on Dealing with Disasters
We live in a time of seemingly constant catastrophes, and we always seem a step behind and still fumble when they occur. It's no longer about preventing…
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Polina Ivanova on Russia's New Line
Polina Ivanova is a Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, and has spent the better part of the last decade reporting from Russia for that publication…
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Lawfare Archive: The Coup in Myanmar
From February 19, 2021: On February 1, Myanmar's military overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup and declared a state of emergency…
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Lawfare Archive: Emily Bell on Journalism in the Platform Era
From March 4, 2021: On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on disinformation and misinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta…
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The Supreme Court Rules on State Secrets
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court issued rulings in two separate cases involving the state secrets privilege: United States v. Abu Zubaydah and Federal…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionGetting Information Into Russia
Over the last few weeks, we’ve talked a lot about the war in Ukraine on this series—how the Russian, Ukrainian and American governments are leveraging…
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Thomas Rid on Ukraine and Cyberwar
Cyberwar is here, proclaims Thomas Rid, professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in a New York…
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Gen. John Baker on the 9/11 Plea Negotiations
General John Baker served until December as the chief defense council at the military commissions. The military commissions’ prosecutors and defense lawyers…
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Tracking Russian Oligarch Yachts
Alex Finley is a former officer of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, who now is a novelist and a writer. Most recently, though, Alex has taken up a…
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Lawfare Archive: Joshua Yaffa on Putin’s Russia
From February 8, 2020: Russia continues to sporadically poke its head into American media headlines, whether it be for its role in Syria or for anxieties about…
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The Aftermath, Episode 2: Scattered to the Four Winds
We're bringing you the second episode of Lawfare’s new narrative series, The Aftermath, which deals specifically with the early phases of the criminal…
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All About the Oath Keepers
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, one of the groups receiving the most attention for its participation in the insurrection on the Hill was the Oath…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionHow Open-Source Investigators are Documenting the War in Ukraine
Open-source investigations—sometimes referred to as OSINT, or open-source intelligence—have been crucial to public understanding of the Russian invasion of…
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Negotiating with the Russians, with Alexander Stubb
Alexander Stubb is the former prime minister, foreign minister and finance minister of Finland. Back in 2008, after the Russian invasion of Georgia, he worked…
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A 1/6 Check-in with Roger Parloff
It's been an eventful week in the department of criminal cases arising out of Jan. 6. We had the first jury verdict convicting an alleged 1/6 perpetrator, an…
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How Ukraine is Changing European Security
Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine has undermined some of the fundamental assumptions underlying the security of Europe through much of the post-World War…
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Lawfare Archive: Andrew Bacevich on 'The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory'
From February 18, 2020: In what ways did American foreign policy fail to capitalize on victory in the Cold War? Andrew Bacevich, professor emeritus at Boston…
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Lawfare Archive: Alex Vindman Talks Eastern Europe
From November 20, 2020: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (Ret.) is the Pritzker Military Fellow at the Lawfare Institute. You've heard his story, likely in his…
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Michael Kofman on the State of the War in Ukraine
As the war in Ukraine grinds into its third week, conditions on the ground have grown increasingly brutal. While Ukrainian forces have proven remarkably…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionHow Tech Platforms are Navigating the War in Ukraine
As Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine continues, tech platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been key geopolitical players in the conflict. The Kremlin has…
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Watergate Revisited with Garrett Graff
You may think you know all that you need to about the Watergate scandal, its origins, its evolution and its implications. But there has been a lot of new…
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A Conversation with a Refugee Law Student from Kharkiv
Kateryna is a fourth-year law student at a university in Kharkiv, Ukraine—at least she was until a few days ago. That's when the Russian army came in and…
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Russia’s Ukraine Operation One Week In
The Russian invasion of Ukraine continues full blast with a great deal of brutality, a great deal of destruction and indeterminate levels of success. To talk…
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Lawfare Archive: Mikhail Zygar on the Accidental King
From December 9, 2017: When the Department of Justice required RT, the Russian-funded news outlet, to register as a foreign agent last month, the Russian…
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Lawfare Archive: An Address by NATO's Secretary General
From March 22, 2014: On March 19, the Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE) hosted NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen for a Statesman’s Forum…
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Data Federalism
Over the past two decades, much of the public's attention has been focused on private markets for individual data, but another equally invasive and expansive…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionYou Can’t Handle the Truth (Social)
Almost immediately since he was banned from Twitter and Facebook in January 2021, Donald Trump has been promising the launch of a new, Trump-run platform to…
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Dan Solove and Woody Hartzog on ‘Breached!’
For the past two decades, there has been an epidemic of data breaches, from Target, to Home Depot, to Equifax, to Uber, just to name a few. In their new book…
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Making Sense of the Unprecedented Sanctions on Russia
Over the past week, the United States and its allies have responded to Russia's military invasion of Ukraine with some unprecedented actions of their…
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China’s Illicit Economies
In the national security world, including on Lawfare, a lot of attention gets paid to China's tech sector and other parts of its economy. Comparatively less…
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Lawfare Archive: Putin's Imperial Gamble
From October 31, 2015: Perhaps you’ve heard, but tensions between the United States and Russia are heating up. With Putin upping the ante in Syria, Marvin…
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Lawfare Archive: Alina and Scott Talk Ukraine and Russia
From November 27, 2018: This week, Russia and Ukraine went at it in the Kerch Strait, which separates the Black Sea from the Sea of Azov. It's the latest salvo…
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Matthieu Aikins on Traveling as an Afghan Refugee
Bryce Klehm sat down with Matthieu Aikins, a Canadian journalist and the author of the new book, “The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Information War in Ukraine
Over the last several weeks, Russian aggression toward Ukraine has escalated dramatically. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Feb. 21 that Russia…
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Russia Attacks Ukraine
Vladimir Putin has recognized two separatist regions in Ukraine, he has sent Russian troops as so-called peacekeepers to defend them, and all of this seems to…
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U.S. Intelligence with Amy Zegart
Last week, the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security and Lawfare hosted an event with Amy Zegart, a professor at…
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Chatter: Presidents' Day and Washington's Legacy with Lindsay Chervinsky
Happy Presidents' Day! To mark the day, Lawfare publisher David Priess recorded a special episode of Chatter with historian and author Lindsay Chervinsky, who…
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Lawfare Archive: Anne Applebaum on the Red Famine
From November 1, 2017: Stalin’s 1929 agricultural collectivization policy, which catalyzed the most lethal famine in European history, left millions of…
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Lawfare Archive: Andrei Soldatov on Russian Intel Ops and Surveillance
From November 12, 2017: Matters Russia have been prevalent in U.S. politics since news of the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 elections first surfaced. It's…
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Madison Cawthorn and the 14th Amendment
Madison Cawthorn is a Republican congressman from North Carolina. His candidacy for reelection is the subject of challenge under Section 3 of the 14th…
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The Nuts and Bolts of Social Media Transparency
Brandon Silverman is a former Facebook executive and founder of the data analytics tool CrowdTangle. Brandon joined Facebook in 2016 after the company acquired…
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Rep. Jamie Raskin Speaks at Brookings on the Future of American Democracy
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland has been one of the most prominent voices in Congress speaking about Jan. 6 and the aftermath of the insurrection. He has a…
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The Biden Administration and Afghanistan’s Frozen Assets
The Biden administration on Friday notified a court of a novel proposal to dispose of $7 billion in frozen Afghanistan assets, producing some pretty confusing…
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Where is the Department of Justice on the Trump Obstruction Offenses?
Today on Lawfare, we’re publishing a piece by our editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes and Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic that revisits the Mueller report…
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Lawfare Archive: Why You Should Buy Back Your Bitcoin
From January 16, 2016: Last week, we hated on bitcoin. This week we give it some love. This week, Brookings hosted a discussion on Bitcoin and the technology…
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Lawfare Archive: Nick Weaver on Why You Should Sell Your Bitcoin
From January 9, 2016: This week we have Nick Weaver on the show. Nick's a regular Lawfare contributor, senior staff researcher at the International Computer…
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The Trucker Convoys and Domestic Unrest in Canada
Over the past few weeks, Canada has been living through its own insurrectionary moment, as a series of trucker convoys have used tractor trailer trucks to…
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Spotify Faces the Content Moderation Music
The Joe Rogan Experience is perhaps the most popular podcast in the world—and it’s been at the center of a weeks-long controversy over COVID misinformation and…
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Universal Jurisdiction Cases
Last month, a court in Germany convicted a senior Assad government official for a crime against humanity and sentenced him to life in prison for activities…
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Congress Moves on China
The House of Representatives last week passed the COMPETES Act, its counterpart to a Senate bill last year on competitiveness with China. What's in the bill?…
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The Bomb Threats at HBCUs
Last week was scary for historically black colleges and universities, 17 of which received bomb threats that caused disruptions, building closures and class…
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Lawfare Archive: Alex Klass on the Texas Energy Crisis
From February 23, 2021: For more than a week now, Texas has been struggling with a massive power outage caused by record low temperatures. Millions have been…
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Lawfare Archive: Syria and The Al-Baghdadi Raid
From October 28, 2019: President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, died in a raid conducted by U.S…
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Another ISIS Leader Killed
Last night, U.S. forces in Northern Syria killed Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi who until yesterday was the current leader of ISIS. It was an operation in…
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Is Block Party the Future of Content Moderation?
We talk a lot on this show about the responsibility of major tech platforms when it comes to content moderation. But what about problems the platforms can’t—or…
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YouTube Influencers and the Chinese Government
Last month, the New York Times ran a story about YouTube videos promoting tourism to China and promoting messages sympathetic to the Chinese government. The…