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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 Edition
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…
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Lawfare Daily: Drone Wars in Ukraine
"Jackie" is the call signal of an American Army veteran who volunteered in 2022 with the Ukrainian military and has been fighting the Russians ever since. He's…
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Lawfare Daily: Pope Leo XIV Takes on Silicon Valley with Christopher Hale and Renée DiResta
Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical treats AI as the defining social question of our time: not just a technical shift, but a moral fight over dignity, labor…
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Lawfare Daily: Inside the Upheaval of the Second Trump Administration with Emily Bazelon
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 29
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: White House Pressure, the Justice Department and the Election
From October 9, 2021: The majority staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee has issued an interim report, entitled “Subverting Justice: How the Former President…
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Lawfare Archive: The Public Integrity Section, Threats, and Criminal Contempt with John Keller
From May 27, 2025: John Keller, now a partner at Walden, Macht, Haran, & Williams, channeled his experience as the former Chief of the Public Integrity Section…
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Lawfare Daily: How Ukraine Is Winning the Drone War
Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Jimmy Rushton, a Kyiv-based journalist and security analyst who recently published, “How Ukraine gained the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Potty Like It’s 1999” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower and Eric Columbus, and his Brookings colleague Molly Reynolds, to talk through a couple of the…
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Lawfare Daily: Russia’s ‘Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks,’ with Sean Wiswesser
Sean Wiswesser, author of the new book, “Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War,” and a former senior operations…
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Lawfare Daily: Investigating the Investigators: Sophia Yan on Journalism in the PRC
Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Sophia Yan, a senior foreign correspondent with The Telegraph, to discuss her time reporting on the Chinese…
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Lawfare Daily: How the World Sees Trump’s America with Eve Fairbanks and Madeleine Schwartz
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Eve Fairbanks, a writer and journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and…
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May Minipod: How Could the Supreme Court Be Reformed?
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett talked with Lawfare Contributing Editor and a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 22
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff…
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Lawfare Archive: Why Public Health is Critical to National Security
From April 2, 2025: Atul Gawande is a surgeon and a public health expert. He's also the former head of global health at the U.S. Agency for International…
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Lawfare Archive: Former Deputy Chief of the Justice Department's Capitol Siege Section Alexis Loeb on President Trump's Pardons
From January 23, 2025: Alexis Loeb, the former Deputy Chief of the Capitol Siege Section of the Department of Justice, sits down with Lawfare Senior Editor…
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Lawfare Daily: Trump Sues Self, Settles
This week, the Department of Justice announced that Trump and his sons dropped their lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury in exchange for a $1.776 billion fund…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “No Banner is Safe” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes and Brookings Senior Fellow Kari Heerman to talk through the week’s big news in national…
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Lawfare Daily: Ancient China and Modern Politics
Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Daniel Bell, a professor at the University of Hong Kong, who recently wrote, “Why Ancient Chinese Political…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionMay 2026: Ask Lawfare Anything
On May 20 at 12 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff and Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien answered Lawfare…
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Lawfare Daily: ‘The Warhead’ with Jeffery Stern
Loren Voss, Senior Editor at Lawfare, sits down with Jeffrey Stern to discuss his new book "The Warhead: The Quest to Build the Perfect Weapon in the Age of…
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Lawfare Daily: The Costs (and Cultural Cachet) of the Cambridge Spies
Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Antonia Senior, whose new book on the history of the Cambridge spy ring, “Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 15
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff to…
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Lawfare Archive: How China Might Coerce Taiwan
From May 15, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman talked with Evan Braden Montgomery and Toshi Yoshihara, both Senior Fellows…
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Lawfare Archive: A Very Special Grand Jury Report
From January 10, 2023: District Attorney of Fulton County Fani Willis has completed her special grand jury investigation of election tampering in 2020. The…
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Lawfare Daily: Corruption, Coverups, and Crisis in Domestic Ukrainian Politics
Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Danylo Mokryk, a war crimes investigator at the Kyiv Independent and the author of a YouTube blog about…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The "Middle-Aged Dads" Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Editor Michael Feinberg and Foreign Policy Editor Dana Stuster for a little chat with the guys…
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Lawfare Daily: Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) on Congress’s Role in Foreign Affairs
On today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Rep. Sara Jacobs, who represents California’s 51st congressional district. As a…
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Lawfare Daily: Terrorism and Insurgency in sub-Saharan Africa
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Holly Berkley Fletcher, former CIA Africa analyst, and Alexander Palmer, fellow…
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Lawfare Daily: Russian PMCs Update with Candace Rondeaux
Candace Rondeaux, the founder and principal of Frontline Atlas, an independent geopolitical risk intelligence hub; a professor with the Future Security…
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Lawfare Daily: What the War Powers Resolution Means for Iran
In February, the Trump administration launched Operation Epic Fury in Iran—without congressional approval. The War Powers Resolution is supposed to constrain…
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Lawfare Archive: Pam Samuelson on Copyright's Threat to Generative AI
From July 17, 2023: The only thing more impressive than the performance of generative AI systems like GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion is the sheer volume of…
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Lawfare Archive: Orin Kerr on the Digital Fourth Amendment
From January 9, 2025: Jack Goldsmith sits down with Orin Kerr, a Professor at Stanford Law School, to discuss his new book, “The Digital Fourth Amendment…
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Lawfare Daily: The Supreme Court’s Long Shadow with Steve Vladeck and Kate Klonick
On May 7, Lawfare Senior Editor Kate Klonick sat down for a live discussion on Substack with Steve Vladeck, a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “I’ve Never Done THAT Before!” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Molly Roberts, Roger Parloff, and Tyler McBrien to talk through the week’s big national security news…
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Lawfare Daily: An Insider’s Account of the Trump Administration’s Dismantling of USAID
On today’s podcast, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talks to Nicholas Enrich, former acting assistant administrator of Global Health at…
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Lawfare Daily: Patrick Radden Keefe on ‘London Falling’
Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of “Say Nothing” and “Empire of Pain,” sits down with Lawfare Associate Editor Peter Beck…
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Lawfare Daily: Chatting on Chatrie with Adam Unikowsky, Michael Dreeben, and Richard Salgado
Lawfare Senior Editor Kate Klonick speaks with former Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben; lecturer in law at Stanford, Richard Salgado; and attorney Adam…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 1
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff…
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Lawfare Archive: Carrie Cordero and Paul Rosenzweig Weigh in on Comey
From June 9, 2017: As the dust settles following former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Lawfare Podcast…
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Lawfare Archive: Bananas and Corporate Accountability for Human Rights
From June 26, 2024: On June 10, the jury reached a verdict in the federal trial against Chiquita Banana. It found that the company had financed a paramilitary…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Identifying the Myths and Facts of AI's Environmental Impact with Gavin McCormick
In this episode of Scaling Laws, we explore how the "black box" of global greenhouse gas emissions is being cracked open by artificial intelligence and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Tavern Style” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Executive Editor Natalie Orpett and Contributing Editors Ariane Tabatabai and Joel Braunold, to talk…
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Lawfare Daily: The Dangers of Privatized, Automated Immigration Enforcement
Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Chinmayi Sharma, an associate professor at Fordham Law School and a contributing editor at Lawfare, to…
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Lawfare Daily: The Explosive Mystery That Rocked Rural Georgia
In 1979, a man using a pseudonym built a strange monument in Elberton, Georgia. Called “America’s Stonehenge" by some, the massive granite monolith known as…
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Lawfare Daily: The Shadowy World of Ransomware with Professor Anja Shortland
Lawfare Book Review Editor Jonathan Cedarbaum sits down with Anja Shortland, professor of political economy at King's College London, to discuss her new book…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 24
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff…
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Lawfare Archive: Elle Reeve on "Black Pill" and Alt-Right Internet Culture
From December 17, 2024: CNN correspondent Elle Reeve has spent the last decade reporting on extremism in the United States. Her book, "Black Pill: How I…
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Lawfare Archive: When Lawyers Spread Disinformation
From August 5, 2022: A few weeks ago on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information system, we brought you a conversation with two emergency room…
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Lawfare Daily: The TPS Cases at the Supreme Court, with Geoffrey Pipoly and Andrew Tauber
Geoffrey Pipoly and Andrew Tauber, partners at the Bryan Cave law firm, speak with Senior Editor Roger Parloff about their case, known at the Supreme Court…
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Lawfare Daily: Breaking Down the Lebanon Ceasefire
On today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with several leading experts to break down the recent ceasefire between Lebanon and…
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Ask Lawfare Anything: April 2026
Every month, Lawfare contributors sit down for a webinar where Lawfare paid supporters can ask them their most pressing questions. This month Lawfare Editor in…