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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
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Sanctions, Speech, and Sovereignty in Brazil
For today’s episode, Lawfare Contributing Editor Renée DiResta interviews Joan Barata, Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Porto; Laís Martins…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Sep 5
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Roger Parloff and Scott Anderson, Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: How the FBI is Combating Cyberattacks, with Brett Leatherman
From March 28, 2024: One of the gravest threats to U.S. national security today—and also one of the newest—is the risk of cyberattacks. They come in many…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: A Conversation with an Exiled Venezuelan Opposition Leader
From August 22, 2024: Anastasiia Lapatina is a Kyiv-based Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare. Leopoldo Lopez is a Venezuelan opposition leader living in exile in…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: U.S. Military Conducts Lethal Strike on Venezuelan ‘Drug Boat’
In a live conversation on Sept. 4, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Professor of Law at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Contrasting and Conflicting Efforts to Regulate Big Tech: EU v. U.S.
Anu Bradford, Professor at Columbia Law School, and Kate Klonick, Senior Editor at Lawfare and Associate Professor at St. John's University School of Law, join…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Wargaming a Chinese Blockade of Taiwan
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviews Mark Cancian, a Senior Adviser with the Center for Strategic and International…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Master of the House” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower, Tyler McBrien, and Peter Harrell to talk through the week’s big national security news…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Federal Judges Rule Against Trump on National Guard Deployment, Tariffs, and Removal of Migrant Children to Guatemala
In a live conversation on Sept. 2, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Anna Bower, and Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Pocket Rescissions in Congress
On today’s episode, Molly Reynolds, Contributing Editor at Lawfare and Senior Fellow at Brookings, sits down with Zach Price, Associate Professor of Law at UC…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug. 29
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Scott Anderson, Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Richard Albert on Constitutional Resilience Amid Political Tumult
From August 23, 2024: Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor of Government, and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The Wagner Group, One Year After Prigozhin with Vanda Felbab-Brown
From August 28, 2024: On today’s episode, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director of the Africa Security…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Uncle Sam Buys In: Examining the Intel Deal
Peter E. Harrell, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Unpacking Security Guarantees for Ukraine
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Eric Ciaramella, a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Room Raider” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with old and new Lawfare colleagues—Benjamin Wittes, Renée DiResta, and Michael Feinberg—to talk through the week’s big national…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: ‘War in the Smartphone Age,’ with Matthew Ford
Matthew Ford, Associate Professor at Swedish Defence University and author of “War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity, and the Crises at Our…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Defending Ukraine Outside NATO with Michael O'Hanlon and Andriy Zagorodnyuk
Lawfare Contributor Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Michael O'Hanlon, Director of Foreign Policy Research and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionAugust Minipod: Impact of Decreased Transparency by Federal Law Enforcement on Public Trust
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Contributor Michael Feinberg about the current state of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug. 22
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff, and Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Inside Ukraine’s Drone Campaign Against Russia
From August 1, 2024: Anastasiia Lapatina is a Kyiv-based Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare. Marcel Plichta is a Fellow at the Centre for Global Law and Governance at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Domestic Deployment of the National Guard
From May 3, 2024: Over the past several years, governors around the country from both political parties have used their respective National Guards for an…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The European Court of Human Rights Takes on Digital Rights in War, with Asaf Lubin and Deb Housen-Couriel
For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor and General Counsel Scott R. Anderson sits down with Lawfare Contributing Editor and Indiana University Maurer…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Export Controls: Janet Egan, Sam Winter-Levy, and Peter Harrell on the White House's Semiconductor Decision
Alan Rozenshtein, Research Director at Lawfare, sits down with Sam Winter-Levy, a Fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Whole Etsy Store of Horrors” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his colleagues Anna Bower, Chris Mirasola, and Mykhailo Soldatenko to talk through the week’s big national security news…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: FCC’s New Submarine Cable Rules with Adam Chan
Adam Chan, National Security Counsel at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and inaugural Director of the FCC’s new Council on National Security, joins…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Alaska Summit and Its Fallout
In a live conversation on August 18, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko, Lawfare Ukraine Fellow…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug. 15
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The End of U.S. Ambition in the Middle East with Steven Cook
From July 31, 2024: For this episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Ukraine Invades Russia
From August 14, 2024: Over the past week, Ukrainian forces have launched a major incursion into Russia proper, occupying 1,000 square kilometers in Kursk…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: What's Next in AI Policy (and for Dean Ball)?
In this episode of Scaling Laws, Dean Ball, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for American Innovation and former Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Insider’s View of Zelensky’s Anti-Corruption Fiasco
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with a member of the Ukrainian parliament, Anastasiia Radina, to discuss the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Business Casual August” Edition
This week, a rejuvenated Scott returned from vacation to sit down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Daniel Byman, and Kate Klonick to talk through…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Steve Brooks and Ben Vagle on U.S.-China Economic Competition
In their new book, “Command of Commerce: America’s Enduring Economic Power Advantage Over China,” Steve Brooks and Ben Vagle argue that the United States’…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: ‘The Fort Bragg Cartel’ with Seth Harp
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Seth Harp, an investigative reporter, U.S. Army Reserve veteran, and a former…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug. 8
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff, and Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: A New Documentary on Surviving the War in Gaza
From August 6, 2024: A new film from Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines series called “The Night Won’t End” profiles three Palestinian families as they try to survive…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: How is Lula Doing?
From June 7, 2023: On January 1, 2023, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as president of Brazil. A week later, insurrectionists in Brazil stormed…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: What Keeps OpenAI’s Product Policy Staff Up at Night? A Conversation with Brian Fuller
Brian Fuller, a member of the Product Policy Team at OpenAI, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: ‘Big Tech in Taiwan’ with Sam Bresnick
Sam Bresnick, Research Fellow and Andrew W. Marshall Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), joins Lawfare’s Justin Sherman…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Oona Hathaway on the Collapse of Norms Against the Use of Force
Lawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Oona Hathaway, Yale Law Professor and President-elect of the American Society of International Law, to…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Fallacy of NATO's New Spending Target
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Minna Ålander, an associate fellow at Chatham House Europe Programme, and Max…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionJuly Minipod: Michael Feinberg on the Fallout of Personnel Changes in Law Enforcement Agencies
For this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey interviews Lawfare Public Service Fellow Michael Feinberg, a former Assistant…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug. 1
In a live conversation on Aug. 1, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Is Complying with the Law of War a Defense to Genocide?
From June 13, 2024: On today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Gabor Rona, Professor of Practice at Cardozo…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Amanda Tyler on Rahimi and Taking Guns Away From Loyalists
From December 27, 2023: The Supreme Court last month heard oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi, in which the Court will decide the constitutionality of a…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Renée DiResta and Alan Rozenshtein on the ‘Woke AI’ Executive Order
Renée DiResta, an Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown and a Contributing Editor at Lawfare, and Alan Rozenshtein…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Famine in Gaza and Its Implications, with Joel Braunold
For today's episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “SkrillEx Parte” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Natalie Orpett, Kevin Frazier, and Tyler McBrien to talk through the week’s big national security news…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: ‘Putin’s Sledgehammer’ with Candace Rondeaux
Candace Rondeaux, Senior Director of New America’s Future Frontlines program, Director of its Planetary Politics initiative, and professor of practice at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Sezaneh Seymour and Brandon Wales on Private-Sector Cyber Operations
Alan Rozenshtein, Senior Editor and Research Director at Lawfare, sits down with Sezaneh Seymour, Vice President and head of regulatory risk and policy at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 25
In a live conversation on July 25, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson and Roger Parloff and Lawfare…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: A House Divided
From May 6, 2017: Three months into the Trump presidency, where does the relationship between the president and the intelligence community stand? Donald Trump…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: AI Policy Under Technological Uncertainty, with Alex “amac” Macgillivray
From July 23, 2024: Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and Senior Editor at Lawfare, and Matt Perault, the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Rapid Response to the AI Action Plan
Janet Egan, Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security; Jessica Brandt, Senior Fellow for…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Conversations from Aspen, Part 2: Ali Nazary on the Future of Afghanistan and Sam Charup on the Ukraine Conflict
For today's episode, Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson is sharing more of the conversations he had with leading policy experts and practitioners on the margins…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Conversations from Aspen, Part 1: Shashank Joshi on European Security and Iris Ferguson on the Arctic
For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson shares some of the conversations he had with leading policy experts and practitioners on the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Noah Feldman on the Supreme Court's Long Game
Alan Rozenshtein, Senior Editor at Lawfare and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, speaks with Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Live from Aspen” Edition
Scott recorded this week’s special episode live from the 2025 Aspen Security Forum, where he sat down with a panel of top national security…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 18
In a live conversation on July 18, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff and Lawfare…