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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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Lawfare Archive: Why is Everyone Banning TikTok?
From December 28, 2022: In the last few weeks, over a dozen U.S. states have banned TikTok from government devices, citing national security concerns. A…
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Lawfare Archive: How the Police Became Untouchable
From February 14, 2023: Last month's brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police has once again sparked a national conversation about the causes of and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Eugene Volokh on Libel and AI
In this Scaling Laws Academy "class," Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, speaks with Eugene Volokh, a…
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Lawfare Daily: The End of USAID, with Nicholas Kristof
Since Jan. 20, 84% of U.S. Agency for International Development grants and contracts have been terminated and 93% of agency staff have been fired. On July 1…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Altered State” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Eric Ciaramella to talk through the week’s big national security news stories…
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Lawfare Daily: Reparations for Russia's Aggression Against Ukraine with Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi and Patrick Pearsall
Lawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko and Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sit down with Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, Executive Director of the Register…
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Lawfare Daily: David Noll on Civil Contempt Against a Defiant Executive
Alan Rozenshtein, Senior Editor and Research Director at Lawfare, sits down with David Noll, a Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School, to discuss his new…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 11
In a live conversation on July 11, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to…
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Lawfare Archive: Julian Mortenson on 'The Executive Power'
From April 12, 2019: Julian Mortenson, Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, is the author of a remarkable new article entitled "Article II Vests…
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Lawfare Archive: Juliette Kayyem on the Baltimore Bridge Collapse and Crisis Management
From April 9, 2024: In the early morning on March 26, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. The bridge collapsed…
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Lawfare Daily: Bribery and the Second Trump Administration with John Keller
John Keller, now a partner at Walden, Macht, Haran, & Williams, channeled his experience as the former chief of the Public Integrity Section at the Department…
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Lawfare Daily, Bonus Edition: Unpacking the July 7 Hearing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia
On July 8, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down for a bonus edition of Lawfare Live with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Ethan Mollick: Navigating the Uncertainty of AI Development
Ethan Mollick, Professor of Management and author of the “One Useful Thing” Substack, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Game Changers” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with fellow Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Alan Rozenshtein to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:“One…
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Lawfare Daily: The Double Black Box: Ashley Deeks on National Security AI
Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein sits down with Ashley Deeks, the Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law at the University of Virginia…
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Lawfare Daily: Michael Feinberg on Leaving the FBI
Until late May, Michael Feinberg was a senior FBI counterintelligence agent focused on China. All that changed one weekend, when the Deputy FBI Director found…
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Lawfare Daily: The Offensive Cyber Industry and U.S.-China Relations with Winnona Bernsen
Winnona Bernsen, nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and founder of DistrictCon, joins Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 3
In a live conversation on July 3, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower…
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Lawfare Archive: Itsiq Benizri on the EU AI Act
From February 16, 2024: The EU has finally agreed to its AI Act. Despite the political agreement reached in December 2023, some nations maintained some…
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Lawfare Archive: Mike Johnson’s National Security Agenda
From November 7, 2023: You probably already know that Rep. Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House. What you may not know is that every single one of the…
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Lawfare Daily: Teun Janssen on Ukraine and a Big Europe
Teun Jansenn is a staff member at the European Parliament who works on issues of EU expansion and support for Ukraine. He joined Editor-in-Chief Benjamin…
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Lawfare Daily: Civil-Military Relations in the Trump Administration
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviews Lindsay Cohn, an associate professor at the Naval War College and Columbia…
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Lawfare Daily: Prosecuting the Sahel's War Influencers with Lindsay Freeman
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Lindsay Freeman, Director of Technology, Law & Policy at the Human Rights Center, UC…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 27
In a live conversation on June 27, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna…
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Lawfare Archive: Steve Vladeck on Emergency Powers and Coronavirus
From March 19, 2020: What can the president do in a national emergency? What limits what the president can do? What authorizes the president to do all those…
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Lawfare Archive: Natan Sachs on Israeli Anti-solutionism
From December 5, 2015: The show this week features Natan Sachs, a Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, who recently published an article in…
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Lawfare Daily: Ukraine-Russia Negotiations with Eric Ciaramella and Samuel Charap
Lawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Eric Ciaramella, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Samuel Charap…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Pronghorn Shirt Daily” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Natalie Orpett, and University of Virginia School of Law professor Ashley Deeks, to…
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Lawfare Daily: ‘Ransom War’ with Max Smeets
Max Smeets, Co-Director of Virtual Routes and Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, joins Lawfare’s Jonathan Cedarbaum and Justin Sherman to discuss his recently…
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Lawfare Daily: A Right to Warn: Protecting AI Whistleblowers with Charlie Bullock
In the wake of controversy over OpenAI’s restrictive nondisclosure agreements, a bipartisan group of senators has introduced the AI Whistleblower Protection…
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Lawfare Daily: U.S. Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Facilities
In a live conversation on June 23, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editor Scott Anderson, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and…
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June Minipod: Emoluments Clause in the Second Trump Term
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Senior Editor Scott Anderson about what the Emoluments…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 20
In a live conversation on June 20, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna…
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Lawfare Archive: Eric Adamson on the NATO Summit
From July 14, 2023: The NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, just wrapped up, and the big news is that Sweden is in, and Ukraine is not. Eric Adamson of the…
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Lawfare Archive: El Salvador’s President Cracks Down on Gangs—and Democracy
From May 9, 2023: Since March 2022, El Salvador has been under a state of exception as its President Nayib Bukele seeks to crack down on the country’s powerful…
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Lawfare Daily: Trump’s Rescissions Request, Impoundments, and the Litigation Over Foreign Assistance
For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Molly…
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Lawfare Archive: Jack Goldsmith and Bob Bauer on Reforming the Insurrection Act
From April 12, 2024: The Insurrection Act is a provision that allows the president to deploy the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement. It’s been invoked…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The "Middle East War to End Middle East Wars" Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Foreign Policy Editors Daniel Byman and Dana Stuster to talk through the week’s big…
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Lawfare Daily: The Israel/Iran Conflict: What Do We Know So Far?
On today's episode, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett discussed the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Iran with Suzanne Maloney, Director of the…
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Lawfare Daily: Evaluating January 6 Prosecutions with Greg Rosen
Greg Rosen, now an attorney at Rogers Joseph O’Donnell, spoke with James Pearce, Lawfare Legal Fellow, about his time prosecuting federal crimes in the U.S…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 13
In a live conversation on June 13, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna…
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Lawfare Archive: The Court at War
From December 26, 2023: The Supreme Court during World War II issued some of the most notorious opinions in its history, including the Japanese exclusion case…
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Lawfare Archive: Protests, the Police, and the Press
From June 21, 2023: Carolyn Cole, a Pulitzer-Prize winning staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, has covered wars and other conflicts in Afghanistan…
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Lawfare Daily: U.S. Troops on the Streets of Los Angeles
For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor and General Counsel Scott R. Anderson sat down with three leading legal experts on domestic military deployments…
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Escalation, Episode Seven: Boiling the Frog
Today, it’s Episode Seven of Escalation, our latest narrative series co-hosted by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina…
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Lawfare Daily: McCarthyism and Its Echoes in Modern Politics with Clay Risen
Lawfare Contributing Editor Renée DiResta sits down with Clay Risen to talk about his book “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “How Many Constitutional Crises Can We Fit Into One Episode?” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic, and Contributing Editor Chris Mirasola, to focus on the week’s big…
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Lawfare Daily: Christina Knight on AI Safety Institutes
Christina Knight, Machine Learning Safety and Evals Lead at Scale AI and former senior policy adviser at the U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI), joins Kevin…
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Escalation, Episode Six: Nothing Else Matters
Today, it’s Episode Six of Escalation, our latest narrative series co-hosted by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina…
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Lawfare Daily: Censorship, Civilizational Allies, and Codes of Practice
Lawfare Contributing Editor Renée DiResta sits down with Daphne Keller, Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford University's Cyber Policy…
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 6
In a live conversation on June 6, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna…
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Lawfare Archive: A New Sanctions Approach for Humanitarian Assistance
From March 14, 2023: For years, the international community has wrestled with how to reconcile sanctions policies targeting terrorist groups and other…
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Lawfare Archive: Protecting Civilians in Gaza and Beyond with Marc Garlasco and Emily Tripp
From January 18, 2024: Last month, the Department of Defense released its first-ever policy on civilian harm reduction. But as Marc Garlasco recently wrote in…
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Lawfare Daily: WITAOD?
Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower has been on a quest. She wants to identify the administrator of DOGE. It's partly a comedic bit. And her lengthy article on…
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Escalation, Episode Five: Resets
Today, it’s Episode Five of Escalation, our latest narrative series co-hosted by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina…
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Lawfare Daily: A Tumultuous Week in Ukraine-Russia Relations, with Anastasiia Lapatina and Mykhailo Soldatenko
It’s been a big week in Ukrainian-Russian relations. There were surprise attacks, an amassing of troops, the blowing up of bridges, and peace talks in Istanbul…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Huffin’ and Puffin” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina and Contributing Editors Eric Ciaramella and Alex Zerden to talk through the week’s…
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Lawfare Daily: Democratic Backsliding and the Role of Technology
Political scientists who study democratic backsliding—the slow erosion of a country’s institutions—have raised alarms about the state of democracy in the…
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Escalation, Episode Four: The Worst of Both Worlds
Today, it’s Episode Four of Escalation, our latest narrative series co-hosted by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina…
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Lawfare Daily: Two Courts Rule Against Trump’s IEEPA Tariffs, with Peter Harrell
For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Contributing Editor and leading sanctions expert Peter Harrell…