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The Lawfare Podcast
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 oth...
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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 Unive...
Rational 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...
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...
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 P...
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 atto...
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 P...
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 Pod...
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 para...
Scaling 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 an...
Rational 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...
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 Lawfar...
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 kn...
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 n...
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 P...
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...
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 emergen...
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...
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...
Lawfare Daily: ‘The Criminal State’ with Lawrence Douglas
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Lawrence Douglas, the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and...
Lawfare Daily: DOJ’s Very Online Civil Rights Head, with Quinta Jurecic and Anna Bower
In her recent profile of Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Department of Justice, The Atlantic’s Quinta Jurecic...
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 17
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger P...
Lawfare Archive: Hunter Marston on the South China Sea
From October 25, 2024: Hunter Marston, PhD candidate at the Australian National University and Southeast Asia Associate at 9DashLine, joins Kevin Fraz...
Lawfare Archive: The New January 6 Reports
From January 6, 2025: On today’s podcast, Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds is joined by Quinta Jurecic, a Fellow at Br...
Lawfare Daily: The Justice Department Throws Out the Proud Boys and Oath Keeper Cases
The Justice Department has moved the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to drop the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys seditious conspiracy cases, the last remain...
Lawfare Daily: Crypto, Corruption, and Cons, with Ben McKenzie
Ben McKenzie, co-author of “Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud,” and writer and director of the new documentar...
Lawfare Daily: Frank Dikötter on the Early Years of Chinese Communism
Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg and historian Frank Dikötter, the author of “Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity...
Lawfare Daily: Sam Altman with Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz
Senior Editor Kate Klonick interviews reporters Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on their recent article in the New Yorker, titled “Sam Altman May Cont...
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 10
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Eric Columbus, and Roge...
Lawfare Archive: Aram Gavoor on the Biden Administration’s AI National Security Memo
From October 28, 2024: Aram Gavoor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at GW Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional S...
Lawfare Archive: Election Anxieties and the U.S. Postal Service with Kevin Kosar and Anne Joseph O’Connell
From September 1, 2020: On August 13, President Trump said in a news interview that he opposed supplemental funding for the United States Postal Servi...
Scaling Laws: How to Use, Govern, and Lead on AI? Rep. Begich Points the Path Forward
Representative Nick Begich, Alaska's at-large member of Congress, joins Kevin Frazier, Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University...
Rational Security: The “Deeply Iran-ic” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Daniel Byman, Tyler McBrien, and Natalie Orpett to talk through aspects of the week’s biggest Ir...
Lawfare Daily: Katherine Pompilio on Tracking Government Non-Compliance in Habeas Corpus Cases
What does it look like when the government violates court orders in more than 350 separate immigration habeas cases?
On today’s episode, Lawfare...
Lawfare Daily: Yaqiu Wang on Surveillance, Censorship, and Emerging Technologies in the PRC
Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with human rights advocate Yaqiu Wang to discuss the role of emerging technologies in China’s surveil...
Lawfare Daily: Arne Westad on ‘The Coming Storm’
Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg and Professor Arne Westad of Yale University, author of “The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from H...
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 3
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, and Roger P...
Lawfare Archive: A World Without Caesars
From March 14, 2025: This episode of the Lawfare Podcast features Glen Weyl, economist and author at Microsoft Research; Jacob Mchangama, Executive Di...
Lawfare Archive: How to Steal a Presidential Election
From March 4, 2024: As the 2024 presidential election approaches, a vital question is whether the legal architecture governing the election is well cr...
Lawfare Daily: The Privacy Law That's Supposed To Be Protecting Us Online Turns 40
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which is designed to protect users' privacy—including privacy online—turned 40 this year. On March 6, Lawfa...
Rational Security: The "Chicken Sh*t Bingo" Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Editors Anna Bower, Kevin Frazier, and Kate Klonick to talk through the week’s big news i...