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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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Rational Security: The “Sects, Lies, and Twin Peaks” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his foreign-policy-minded colleagues Daniel Byman, Michael Feinberg, and Ari Tabatabai to talk through some recent big...
Lawfare Daily: Challenging Immigration Detentions in Minnesota
The dramatic influx of immigration enforcement actions in Minnesota have landed an enormous number of people in detention. It's led to an unprecedente...
Lawfare Daily: National Security Regulation of Technology and Data Transactions
Lawfare Book Review Editor Jonathan Cedarbaum sits down with Justin Sherman, the CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, to discuss his new book, "Navigating...
Lawfare Daily: Ukraine After Year One of Trump’s Second Term, with Eric Ciaramella and Francis Farrell
Eric Ciaramella of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Francis Farrell, a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who covers military and secu...
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 13
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Anna...
Lawfare Archive: Jack Goldsmith on Trump v. United States and Executive Power
From February 12, 2025: Jack Goldsmith, the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School and co-founder of Lawfare, joins Alan Rozenshtein, Associate...
Lawfare Archive: Nayna Gupta on the Laken Riley Act
From February 7, 2025: On today’s podcast, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey spoke to Nayna Gupta, Director of Policy at the Ame...
Lawfare Daily: Lessons for Civilian Harm Mitigation in Urban Warfare, from Gaza and Beyond
For today's podcast, we're bringing you the audio for a panel discussion that Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson hosted this past November, at a conferen...
Rational Security: The “Midnight Train to Ukraine” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, who recently returned from Ukraine, and Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina,...
Lawfare Daily: Why AI Won't Revolutionize Law (At Least Not Yet), with Arvind Narayanan and Justin Curl
Alan Rozenshtein, research director at Lawfare, speaks with Justin Curl, a third-year J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, and Arvind Narayanan, prof...
Lawfare Daily: Dockets Die in Darkness with Peter Beck and Seamus Hughes
In his recent piece for Court Watch, a news site covering interesting, yet often overlooked federal court filings, Lawfare Associate Editor Peter Beck...
Lawfare Daily: What To Expect on the Immigration Front in Year 2 of Trump's Second Term
Lawfare Senior Editor Eric Columbus talks with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council to discuss what is—and isn’t—likely to look...
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 6
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Moll...
Lawfare Archive: Asylum-Seekers and the EU Migration Pact
From April 1, 2024: In early February, the European Union approved a major overhaul of its immigration laws. If approved by EU member states, the pact...
Lawfare Archive: Anna Bower on Judge McBurney’s Deliberations
From January 25, 2023: Judge Robert McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County held a hearing on Tuesday to decide whether or not to release the...
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 th...
Rational 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...
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...
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 Report
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 L...
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 Rober...
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...
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 f...
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 h...
Rational 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 na...
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 unfo...
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...
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...
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 Co...
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...
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 t...
Scaling 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 Directo...
Rational 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...
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 S...
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 co...
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...
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 Fei...
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 busines...
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 Europ...
Scaling 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 Neurola...