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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 EditionRational Security: The “Authentic Flavors, Real Fruit” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Molly Roberts, Tyler McBrien, and Renée DiResta to talk through the week’s big national security news…
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Lawfare Daily: The Military Domestic Deployment Legal Framework: Are the Laws Fit for Purpose?
Loren Voss, Public Service Fellow at Lawfare, sits down with Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Linda Singh, former Adjutant General of Maryland, and Chris Mirasola, Assistant…
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Lawfare Daily: CPPA’s Tom Kemp on Data Brokers, Privacy, and State Enforcement
Tom Kemp, executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), joins Lawfare’s Justin Sherman to discuss California’s new Delete Request and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Live: A Hearing on Anthropic's Preliminary Injunction Motion
Following the March 24 hearing in Anthropic's suit challenging its supply chain designation on the AI company's request for a preliminary injunction, Lawfare…
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Lawfare Daily: The Gulf Widens
As the U.S.-Israel war with Iran continues, it is playing out across the Middle East, particularly in Gulf Arab states and the Strait of Hormuz.In this…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 20
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, Roger…
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Lawfare Archive: TikTok Ban at the Supreme Court
From January 13, 2025: In a live conversation on January 10, Lawfare Tarbell Fellow in Artificial Intelligence Kevin Frazier talked to Lawfare Senior Editor…
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Lawfare Archive: Accountability for Abu Ghraib
From December 23, 2024: On today's podcast, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett talks with Michael Posner, a professor of business and human rights at New…
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Lawfare Daily: Can the President Declare an Elections Emergency?
A draft executive order has been floating around that would assert presidential control over elections all over the country. Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The "Take a Light Out of Crime" Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Natalie Orpett, and Ariane Tabatabai to talk through the week’s big news in national…
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Lawfare Daily: Iran Will Retaliate in the U.S., and We May Not See It in Time
In this episode, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Troy Edwards joins Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg to discuss Iran’s history of drawing from a robust…
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Lawfare Daily: National Security, Counterintelligence, and Counterespionage: A Guide for the Perplexed
In today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with his former FBI colleague retired Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derek Pieper to…
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Lawfare Daily: Inside Iran's Complicated Relationship with Russia
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to an expert on Russian foreign policy in the Middle East, Director of the Eurasia…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 13
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Eric Columbus, Roger…
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Lawfare Archive: Elliot Jones on the Importance and Current Limitations of AI Testing
From August 30, 2024: Elliot Jones, a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University…
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Lawfare Archive: Steve Coll on Saddam Hussein and the Limits of American Power in the Middle East
From September 26, 2024: Steve Coll’s latest book, “The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq,” seeks to…
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Lawfare Daily: The State of Syria, with Charles Lister
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and head of its Syria…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Stop Cap” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Kate Klonick, Molly Roberts, and Troy Edwards to talk through the week’s big national security news…
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Lawfare Daily: Matt Olsen Talks Iran, the Justice Department, and FISA 702
Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matt Olsen joins Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss the terrorist threat from Iran, the…
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Lawfare Daily: Does the U.S. Have a Drone Defense Problem?
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Fabian Hoffman, a missile expert and author of Missile Matters, and senior Ukrainian…
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Lawfare Daily: “I’m angry that I exist”: Nihilistic Violent Extremism with Seamus Hughes and Jacob Ware
Seamus Hughes, a senior research faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 6
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Roger Parloff, Molly Roberts, and Alan…
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Lawfare Archive: The National Security Law Podcast Guys Talk Soleimani
From January 11, 2020: As part of Lawfare's continuing coverage of the killing of Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani, we are bringing you an edited…
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Lawfare Archive: Hezbollah, Lebanon, Israel, Iran
From October 2, 2024: Israel has hit Hezbollah very hard over the past few days, killing much of its senior leadership and eroding its capabilities. It has…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Can AI Make AI Regulation Cheaper?, with Cullen O'Keefe and Kevin Frazier
Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare, spoke with Cullen O'Keefe, research director at the Institute for Law & AI, and Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Attacking Iran” Special Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Daniel Byman, and Ari Tabatabai for an in-depth discussion of the U.S. military…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trial of the North Texas Antifa Cell
Tom Brzozowski, formerly of the Justice Department; Lawfare Public Service Fellow Troy “LT” Edwards; and Steven Monacelli, an investigative correspondent at…
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Lawfare Daily: The Tariffs Decision and What Comes Next
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with three leading scholars from the Georgetown University Law Center—Professor Kathleen…
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Lawfare Daily: The Pentagon Designates Anthropic as a Supply Chain Risk
In a live conversation on March 2, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editor and Research Director Alan Rozenshtein about the…
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February Minipod: How Could President Trump Subvert the 2026 Elections?
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Senior Editor Eric Columbus about how the president could…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 27
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Roger Parloff, Molly…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Live: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran
At 9 am ET on March 1, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Public Service Fellows Ariane Tabatabai and Troy Edwards Lawfare Senior…
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Lawfare Archive: Stephanie Leutert on Violence in Mexico and Central America
From October 8, 2016: Stephanie Leutert, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Lawfare's "Beyond the…
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Lawfare Archive: Trump’s Tariffs and the Law
From February 27, 2025: For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Kathleen Claussen, an expert in international economic law…
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Lawfare Daily: Patronage Pardons: A Conversation with Prof. Lee Kovarsky about a Novel Feature of the Trump Administration
Lee Kovarsky, an endowed chair professor at the University of Texas School of Law, speaks with Senior Editor Roger Parloff about patronage pardons, the subject…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Live: Unpacking the Kilmar Abrego Garcia Hearing with Anna Bower
In a Feb. 26 Lawfare Live, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes and Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower discussed the evidentiary hearing in the Kilmar Abrego…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Off the Rails” Edition
This week, Scott was joined by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, Lawfare Senior Editor Molly Roberts, and University of Virginia Professor of Law Paul…
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Lawfare Daily: The State of IHL
Loren Voss, Public Service Fellow at Lawfare, sits down with Stuart Casey Maslen, the head of the IHL in Focus project at the Geneva Academy of International…
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Lawfare Daily: Are We Going to War in Iran?
Lawfare Public Service Fellow Ariane Tabatabai and Eric Brewer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative join Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes in a discussion of…
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Lawfare Daily: Ideology, Action, and Terrorism in the 1970s
Senior Editor Michael Feinberg is joined by Jason Burke of The Guardian, the author of “The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists who Hijacked the…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 20
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Anna Bower…
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Lawfare Archive: Nick Bednar on Trump's Civil Service Executive Orders
From January 28, 2025: In today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Z. Rozenshtein speaks with his University of Minnesota Law colleague, Nick Bednar, about…
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Lawfare Archive: Are the Courts Ready for a Trump Presidency?
From February 13, 2025: Only a few weeks have passed since inauguration, but President Trump's barrage of executive orders has already generated dozens of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Claude's Constitution, with Amanda Askell
Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare, and Kevin Frazier, senior editor at Lawfare, speak with Amanda Askell, head of personality alignment at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Sects, Lies, and Twin Peaks” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his foreign-policy-minded colleagues Daniel Byman, Michael Feinberg, and Ari Tabatabai to talk through some recent big news…
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Ask Lawfare Anything: February 2026
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Lawfare Daily: Challenging Immigration Detentions in Minnesota
The dramatic influx of immigration enforcement actions in Minnesota have landed an enormous number of people in detention. It's led to an unprecedented number…
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Lawfare Daily: National Security Regulation of Technology and Data Transactions
Lawfare Book Review Editor Jonathan Cedarbaum sits down with Justin Sherman, the CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, to discuss his new book, "Navigating…
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Lawfare Daily: Ukraine After Year One of Trump’s Second Term, with Eric Ciaramella and Francis Farrell
Eric Ciaramella of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Francis Farrell, a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who covers military and security…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 13
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Anna Bower…
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Lawfare Archive: Jack Goldsmith on Trump v. United States and Executive Power
From February 12, 2025: Jack Goldsmith, the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School and co-founder of Lawfare, joins Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor…
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Lawfare Archive: Nayna Gupta on the Laken Riley Act
From February 7, 2025: On today’s podcast, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey spoke to Nayna Gupta, Director of Policy at the American…
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Lawfare Daily: Lessons for Civilian Harm Mitigation in Urban Warfare, from Gaza and Beyond
For today's podcast, we're bringing you the audio for a panel discussion that Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson hosted this past November, at a conference on…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Midnight Train to Ukraine” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, who recently returned from Ukraine, and Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina, to go…
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Lawfare Daily: Why AI Won't Revolutionize Law (At Least Not Yet), with Arvind Narayanan and Justin Curl
Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare, speaks with Justin Curl, a third-year J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, and Arvind Narayanan, professor of…
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Lawfare Daily: Dockets Die in Darkness with Peter Beck and Seamus Hughes
In his recent piece for Court Watch, a news site covering interesting, yet often overlooked federal court filings, Lawfare Associate Editor Peter Beck wrote…
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Lawfare Daily: What To Expect on the Immigration Front in Year 2 of Trump's Second Term
Lawfare Senior Editor Eric Columbus talks with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council to discuss what is—and isn’t—likely to look different…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 6
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts…
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Lawfare Archive: Asylum-Seekers and the EU Migration Pact
From April 1, 2024: In early February, the European Union approved a major overhaul of its immigration laws. If approved by EU member states, the pact will…
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Lawfare Archive: Anna Bower on Judge McBurney’s Deliberations
From January 25, 2023: Judge Robert McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County held a hearing on Tuesday to decide whether or not to release the Fulton…