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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.
Episodes
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Lawfare Daily: Scott Anderson on How Social Media Platforms Should Handle Unrecognized Regimes
Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein speaks with Scott Anderson, Senior Editor at Lawfare, fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and…
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Lawfare Daily: Ukraine’s Asymmetric Blueprint in the Black Sea
At the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia held clear naval superiority in the Black Sea. Over the course of the war, Ukraine has developed an…
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December Minipod: How Do Members of the Military Determine Whether Something Is Unlawful?
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talks to Director of the National Security Law Program at Georgetown…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 12
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: Introducing Allies: A Podcast Series from Lawfare and Goat Rodeo
From May 16, 2022: Today, Lawfare and Goat Rodeo released the first two episodes of Allies, a podcast series that traces the U.S.’s efforts to protect Afghan…
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Lawfare Archive: President-elect Trump's National Security Appointments
From November 16, 2024: Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Alan Rozenshtein, and Quinta Jurecic and Executive…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Live: The Trump Administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy
At 10 am ET on Dec. 11, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson; Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and…
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Lawfare Daily: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders
News of a U.S. attack on a boat off the coast of Venezuela—which included a second strike on survivors of the first—has raised new concerns about the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Adverse Possession” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Contributing Editor Alex Zerden to talk through a few of the week’s big national…
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Lawfare Daily: The Defense Tech Paradox, with Susannah Glickman
Susannah Glickman, an assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University who specializes in the political economy of computation and information, sat…
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Lawfare Daily: Wikipedia, Ref-Working, and the Battle Over Reality
Wikipedia is more than an encyclopedia. It’s a key part of the internet’s information infrastructure—shaping what people know, what AI models learn, and what…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 5
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Michael Feinberg, Molly Roberts…
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Lawfare Archive: Lynzy Billing on Afghanistan's Zero Unit Night Raids
From January 24, 2023: In 2019, investigative journalist and photographer Lynzy Billing went to Afghanistan to investigate a very personal story: her own past…
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Lawfare Archive: How Congressional Staffers Helped Our Afghan Allies
From April 5, 2024: A new report from the POPVOX Foundation focuses on a little-known and hugely under-appreciated congressional effort: that of congressional…
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Lawfare Live: The EU Fines X 120 M Euros - What Comes Next?
On Dec. 5, the European Commission announced that they are fining X (formerlly Twitter) 120 million euros for impersonation scams with “verification,” broken…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Caleb Withers on the Cybersecurity Frontier in the Age of AI
Caleb Withers, a researcher at the Center for a New American Security, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School…
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Lawfare Daily: The End of New START? With John Drennan and Matthew Sharp
New START, the last bilateral nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia, will expire in February 2026 if Washington and Moscow do not…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Living La Vida Off Camera” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Natalie Orpett and Eric Ciaramella to talk through the week’s big national security news…
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Lawfare Daily: The Besieged District Judges, with Reynolds Holding and Judge Jed Rakoff
Veteran legal journalist Reynolds Holding, author of "Better Judgment: How Three Judges Are Bringing Justice Back to the Courts," and U.S. District Judge Jed…
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Lawfare Daily: America's Defense Industrial Base
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Seth Jones, the President of the Defense and Security Department at the Center…
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Lawfare Daily: Grading the Trump Administration's Cybersecurity Efforts, with Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is the Senior Director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He…
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Lawfare Archive: Russia and the American Far-right, with Marlene Laruelle
From November 19, 2024: Lawfare Associate Editor Olivia Manes sat down with with Marlene Laruelle, a Research Professor of International Affairs and Political…
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Lawfare Archive: Deploying the Military at the Southern Border, with Chris Mirasola
From November 26, 2024: Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Chris Mirasola, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law…
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Lawfare Archive: Zelensky’s Victory Plan, with Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella
From October 18, 2024: Following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to the Ukrainian Parliament outlining his victory plan, Lawfare…
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Lawfare Archive: AI Regulation and Free Speech: Navigating the Government’s Tightrope
From November 25, 2024: At a recent conference co-hosted by Lawfare and the Georgetown Institute for Law and Technology, Georgetown law professor Paul Ohm…
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Lawfare Daily: Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella Talk Russia, Ukraine, and Trump
Lawfare Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace join Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes to…
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Lawfare Daily: Inside the Law Letting Senators Sue Over Phone Data
Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes talks with Executive Editor Natalie Orpett and Senior Editor Michael Feinberg about their recent Lawfare article…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Live: Judge Dismisses Indictments Against James Comey and Letita James
At 4 pm ET, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff and Lawfare Contributor James Pearce to discuss a…
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November Minipod: Can President Trump Run for a Third Term–and Who Could Stop Him?
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talks to Michigan State University Law Professor Brian Kalt about how…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Nov. 21
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus…
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Lawfare Archive: The Saudi-Iran Deal Featuring China
From April 13, 2023: A few weeks ago, China made headlines for brokering a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to thaw diplomatic relations after seven years of…
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Lawfare Archive: Explaining the Michigan Fake Electors Prosecution
From August 16, 2023: On July 18, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel unveiled criminal charges against 16 people—the “fake electors” from that state who…
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Lawfare Daily: The New U.N. Security Council Resolution on Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan, with Amb. Jeffrey Feltman and Joel Braunold
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Live: Discussing the Hearings on James Comey’s Prosecution and the Alien Enemies Act
At 4pm ET on Nov. 19, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff to discuss two…
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Lawfare Daily: All Things Ukrainian Energy with Anastasiia Lapatina
Lawfare Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina has written two recent articles for Lawfare on energy and the Ukraine war. The first deals with the ongoing Russian…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Chicken Fight” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower, Michael Feinberg, and Roger Parloff to talk through the week’s big domestic news stories…
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Lawfare Daily: Emily Hoge on Russian Mobsters at the Front
Benjamin Wittes sits down with Emily Hoge, a historian at Clemson University, who has written a pair of pieces for Lawfare recently about Russian mobsters and…
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Lawfare Daily: The Epstein Files and the Politicization of the Justice Department
Senior Editor Anna Bower speaks with Lawfare Public Service Fellow Michael Feinberg and Senior Editor Eric Columbus about the extraordinary actions taken by…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Nov. 14
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus and…
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Lawfare Archive: Big Tech and Law Enforcement, with Lukas Bundonis
From August 9, 2024: On today's episode, Lawfare's Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri speaks with Senior Privacy Engineer at Netflix and former…
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Lawfare Archive: Will Generative AI Reshape Elections?
From November 29, 2023: Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard a great deal over the last year about generative AI and how it’s going to…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: The AI Economy and You: How AI Is, Will, and May Alter the Nature of Work and Economic Growth with Anton Korinek, Nathan Goldschlag, and Bharat Chander
Anton Korinek, a professor of economics at the University of Virginia and newly appointed economist to Anthropic's Economic Advisory Council; Nathan…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Video Killed the Podcast Star” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Natalie Orpett, Eric Columbus, and Molly Roberts, to talk through the week’s big national security news…
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Lawfare Daily: Revolutions and the Rule of Law
In this episode, Michael Feinberg interviews Fareed Zakaria, whose book “Age of Revolutions” has just been issued with a new afterword in light of the return…
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Lawfare Daily: Tim Wu on ‘The Age of Extraction’
Lawfare Senior Editors Kate Klonick and Alan Rozenshtein talk to Columbia law professor Tim Wu about this new book, “The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms…
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Lawfare Archive: Lindsay Chervinsky on ‘Making the Presidency’
From September 23, 2024: Lindsay Chervinsky is the Executive Director of the George Washington Library at Mount Vernon. She is also the author of a much…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Nov. 7
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, Roger Parloff and…
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Lawfare Archive: Waxman and Ramsey on Delegating War Power
From January 22, 2024: There is much debate among academics and policy experts over the power the Constitution affords to the president and Congress to…
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Lawfare Archive: The Dangers of Deploying the Military on U.S. Soil
From November 6, 2024: For today’s special episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson held a series of conversations with…
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Lawfare Daily: Supreme Court Oral Arguments on President Trump’s Tariffs
In a live conversation on November 5, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Lawfare Contributing Editor Peter Harrell and Georgetown Law…
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Lawfare Daily: Seeking Meaning at the Soviet Collapse, with Joseph Kellner
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Joseph Kellner, an assistant professor of history at the University of Georgia to…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Wea Culpa” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with co-hosts emeritus Benjamin Wittes and Alan Rozenshtein, and Senior Editor Kate Klonick, to talk through the week’s big national…
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Lawfare Daily: The Looming Fall of Pokrovsk
In this episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Francis Farrell, a front line reporter at the Kyiv Independent, to discuss the…
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Lawfare Daily: How Social Media Threatens Democracy, with Rick Pildes
On today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Kate Klonick sits down with NYU law professor Rick Pildes to discuss his article, “Political Fragmentation in…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 31
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Contributor Marty Lederman, Public Service Fellow Loren Voss…
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Lawfare Archive: Michael Beckley and Arne Westad on the U.S.-China Relationship
From July 18, 2024: On today’s episode, Matt Gluck, Research Fellow at Lawfare, spoke with Michael Beckley, Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts…
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Lawfare Archive: ‘Threat Multiplier,’ Climate, and the Military with Sherri Goodman
From August 27, 2024: On today’s episode, Sherri Goodman, the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security and the first…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: The GoLaxy Revelations: China's AI-Driven Influence Operations, with Brett Goldstein, Brett Benson, and Renée DiResta
Alan Rozenshtein, Senior Editor at Lawfare, speaks with Brett Goldstein, Special Advisor to the Chancellor on National Security and Strategic Initiatives at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Tyler’s Revenge” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Public Service Fellow Ari Tabatabai and Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk through the week’s big news…
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Lawfare Daily: Why We Fall for Charlatans, with Quico Toro
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Quico Toro, global opinion columnist at the Washington Post and Director of Climate…