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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 Edition
Lawfare Daily: Iran Protests and Internet Shutdown
Information about the recent protests in Iran and the regime's brutal crackdown are only starting to come to light, having been severely limited by the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: “The Story of Three Warrants” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Molly Roberts, Michael Feinberg, and Troy Edwards to talk through the week’s big warrant-related national…
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Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Plan for Venezuelan Oil Revenue
On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett speaks with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson about the recently announced U.S. plan to take…
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Lawfare Daily: Unearthing and Reckoning with the Intelligence Excesses of the Cold War
Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman to discuss their new book, “The Church Committee ReportRevelations…
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Lawfare Daily: Misogyny and Violent Extremism with Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a professor at American University, discusses her new book, "Man Up: The New Misogyny & the Rise of Violence Extremism," with Lawfare…
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January Minipod: Congressional Oversight of the Trump Administration
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Senior Editor Eric Columbus about what congressional…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Jan. 30
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Senior Editor Eric Columbus sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts to…
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Lawfare Archive: Discussing President Trump’s First Batch of Executive Orders
From January 27, 2025: In a live conversation on January 23, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Anna…
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Lawfare Archive: Judge Cannon Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Trump
From July 16, 2024: On July 15, Judge Cannon granted former President Trump’s motion to dismiss the indictment brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith for the…
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Lawfare Daily: The Thousands of Lawsuits Challenging Pres. Trump’s Mandatory Alien Detention Policy
Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico, speaks to Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff about the thousands of habeas corpus cases he has pored…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Pawing at Scott” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Alan Rozenshtein, Eric Columbus, and Molly Roberts for a deep dive into two of the week’s big national…
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Lawfare Daily: Trump, Greenland, and the International Order
The crisis over President Trump's threats to annex Greenland appears to be over for now. But the second- and third-order consequences continue to unfold as…
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Lawfare Daily: Elizabeth Tsurkov on Her Captivity in Iraq
Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Princeton PhD candidate Elizabeth Tsurkov to talk about the 903 days that she was held in captivity by Kata'ib…
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Lawfare Daily: The Military’s Operational Technology Cyber Vulnerabilities
Andy Grotto, William J. Perry International Security Fellow and the founder and co-director of the Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Jan. 23
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Roger Parloff, and Eric Columbus…
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Lawfare Archive: Joel Braunold on What Donald Trump's Return Might Mean for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
From December 6, 2024: For today’s podcast, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the…
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Lawfare Archive: Anna Bower on the Confirmation Hearing of Pete Hegseth
From January 15, 2025: In a live conversation on January 14, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower about the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Rapid Response to the Implications of Claude's New Constitution
Jakub Kraus, a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, speaks with Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and Research Director at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Just Chilling in My Padded Room” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with co-host emeritus Shane Harris and Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower and Loren Voss to talk through yet another big week in national…
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Lawfare Daily: Can Minnesota Prosecute ICE Agent Jonathan Ross?
Senior Editor Anna Bower spoke with Carolyn Shapiro, co-director of Chicago-Kent College of Law's Institute on the Supreme Court, and Bryna Godar, a Staff…
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Lawfare Daily: Trump's Board of Peace and What's Next for Gaza, with Joel Braunold
On today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Joel Braunold, the managing director of The Center Project and a Lawfare…
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Lawfare Daily: Grand Conspiracy with Molly Roberts
Lawfare Senior Editor Molly Roberts joins Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss her new article on the so-called “grand conspiracy” investigation, which…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Jan. 16
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Roger Parloff, Michael Feinberg and…
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Lawfare Archive: Content Moderation Comes for Parler and Gettr
From September 9, 2021: Let’s say you’re a freedom-loving American fed up with Big Tech’s effort to censor your posts. Where can you take your business? One…
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Lawfare Archive: The Trump Administration’s Latest Moves to Dismantle the Iran Nuclear Agreement with Peter Harrell and Richard Nephew
From June 8, 2020: On May 27, the Trump administration announced that it was withdrawing sanctions waivers that had allowed Russian, Chinese and European…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: How AI Can Transform Local Criminal Justice, with Francis Shen
Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare, spoke with Francis Shen, Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, director of the Shen Neurolaw Lab…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Scare Them When They’re Young” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Tyler McBrien, Michael Feinberg, and Ariane Tabatabai to talk through the week’s big news in national…
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Lawfare Daily: Entrepreneurial Federalism and the New National Security, with Ashley Deeks and Kristen Eichensehr
On today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Lawfare Contributing Editor Professor Ashley Deeks of the University of Virginia…
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Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Foreign Service at a ‘Breaking Point,’ with John Dinkelman
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with John Dinkelman, president of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), to…
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Lawfare Daily: The Latest in Iran, with Richard Nephew
Iran is once again witnessing large-scale protests, on which the regime is cracking down through mass arrests and deadly force. President Trump has stated that…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Jan. 5
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Roger Parloff Michael Feinberg and Eric…
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Lawfare Archive: Former Ambassador Roberta Jacobson on the Mexico Presidential Election
From June 18, 2024: On June 2, Mexico held one of the largest elections in its history and the electorate voted in the country's first women, and Jewish…
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Lawfare Archive: A Jan. 6 Committee Staffer on Far-Right Extremism
From February 15, 2023: The Jan. 6 committee’s final report on the insurrection is over 800 pages, including the footnotes. But there’s still new information…
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Lawfare Daily: The Legal Fallout After a Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower speaks with fellow Senior Editors Eric Columbus and Mike Feinberg about the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: A Year That Felt Like a Decade: 2025 Recap with Sen. Maroney and Neil Chilson
Connecticut State Senator James Maroney and Neil Chilson, Head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute, join Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Caracas Like a Hurricane” Special Venezuela Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Natalie Orpett, and Molly Roberts for a special deep-dive into the intervention in…
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Lawfare Daily: Mary Clare Jalonik on ‘Storm at the Capitol’
Senior Editor Michael Feinberg and Associated Press reporter Mary Clare Jalonik sit down to discuss Mary Clare’s oral history of the events of Jan. 6, “Storm…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Jan. 5
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Scott Anderson, Michael Feinberg…
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Lawfare Daily: Jan. 6, 2026: Five Years of Congressional Action and Inaction
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol. That day marked the beginning of a reckoning across the entirety of the U.S…
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Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Strike on Venezuela and Capture of Nicolás Maduro
During a live YouTube discussion on Jan. 4, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson, Foreign Policy…
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Lawfare Archive: How the FCC is Tackling National Security with Enforcement Bureau Chief Loyaan Egal
From October 9, 2024: For today’s episode, Loyaan Egal, the Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), sat down with…
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Lawfare Archive: Mayor Adams, the Feds, and a Whole Lot of Foreign Money
From September 30, 2024: New York Mayor Eric Adams is facing indictment in connection with a foreign influence scheme involving Turkey. It’s the latest in a…
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Lawfare Daily: Ask Us Anything About 2025
Today's Lawfare Daily is Lawfare's annual "Ask Us Anything" mailbag episode where Lawfare contributors answered listener-submitted questions.Scott R. Anderson…
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Lawfare Archive: FISA 702 Passes the House
From April 16, 2024: Friday morning, the House of Representatives suddenly—after failing to do so earlier in the week—took up the reauthorization of FISA 702…
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Lawfare Archive: Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine and the International Legal Order
From April 4, 2023: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has tested the international legal order like never before. For many, the fact that a nuclear power and member…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Inadequate Chicken Moved to Inferior Location” Special End-of-Year Edition
For the podcast’s annual end-of-year episode, Scott sat down with co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes, Senior Editor Anna Bower, and Managing Editor Tyler McBrien…
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Lawfare Daily: Tom Brzozowski on Domestic Terrorism Investigations and Prosecutions
Senior Editor Michael Feinberg and Tom Brzozowski, formerly of the Justice Department, sit down to talk over recent changes set in motion by the White House…
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Lawfare Daily: The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act
In this episode, Ariane Tabatabai, Scott R. Anderson, and Loren Voss discuss the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026. They take…
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Lawfare Archive: Lidsky and Koningisor on First Amendment Disequilibrium
From March 6, 2024: Executive branch constraints and the posture of the media have shifted in significant ways over the past two decades. Lyrissa Lidsky and…
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Lawfare Archive: Ask Us Anything About 2024
From January 2, 2025: You called in with your questions, and Lawfare contributors have answers! Benjamin Wittes, Kevin Frazier, Quinta Jurecic, Eugenia Lostri…
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Lawfare Daily: The Year That Was: 2025
Every year, Lawfare publishes a retrospective of the year that passed. Today, we’re pleased to bring you an audio debrief of that article, The Year That Was…
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Lawfare Archive: The National Security Law Podcast: Han Shot First
From October 18, 2017: If you were unsure about whether your hosts are geeks, this episode will help settle the question. But before we get to what Professors…
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Lawfare Archive: ‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
From September 19, 2024: On April 14, 2022, New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac woke up to a stunning four-word tweet from Elon Musk’s…
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Lawfare Daily: Civ-Mil Relations: Where Are We Now and How Did We Get Here?
Loren Voss, Public Service Fellow at Lawfare, sits down with Kori Schake, senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 19
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Eric Columbus…
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Lawfare Archive: Why Pakistan is Deporting Afghan Refugees with Madiha Afzal
From November 20, 2023: Over the past few weeks, the country of Pakistan has pursued an aggressive wave of deportations targeting thousands of Afghan refugees…
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Lawfare Archive: Memorializing Babyn Yar after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
From July 1, 2022: 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…
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Lawfare Daily: ‘Deportation, Inc.’ and the Rise of the Immigration Enforcement Economy
Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with SITU’s Deputy Director of Research Gauri Bahuguna, Detention Watch Network’s Advocacy Director Setareh…
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Lawfare Daily: Trump Admin Attacks on Inspectors General with Cristin Dorgelo and Rob Storch
Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Cristin Dorgelo, a former senior adviser for management at the Office of Management and Budget, and Rob…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Chestbursters Roasting on an Open Fire” Edition
This week, Scott down with his Lawfare colleagues Alan Rozenshtein and Ari Tabatabai to talk through a few of the week’s big national security news stories…