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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 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...
Lawfare Daily: Beyond the Headlines: A History of U.S.-Iran Relations
In this episode, Ariane Tabatabai sits down with historian, John Ghazvinian, the author of, “America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present,” to dis...
Lawfare Daily: Joel Braunold on West Bank Violence and Israel’s New Lebanon Offensive
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Joel Braunold, the Managing Director of the Center Project, for the latest...
Lawfare Daily: What’s Influencing Politics Online? X’s Algorithm, Creators, and the New Persuasion Machine
In this episode, Lawfare Contributing Editor Renée DiResta speaks with Nathaniel Lubin, co-author of “How Social Media Creators Shape Mass Politics,”...
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 27
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: Tom Kent on the Dismantling of American Government Broadcasting
From March 25, 2025: Tom Kent ran Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is a longtime Russia watcher. He talks to Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Witte...
Lawfare Archive: The New Syrian Government and Its Problems
From March 19, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Steven Heydemann, the Director of the Middle East Stu...
Lawfare Daily: How Two Intelligence Community Veterans View the Iran Conflict, with Chip Usher and Aaron Faust
On today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with two veterans of the intelligence community to get their take on the ongoing...
Rational Security: The “Authentic Flavors, Real Fruit” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Molly Roberts, Tyler McBrien, and Renée DiResta to talk through the week’s big national security...
Lawfare Daily: The Military Domestic Deployment Legal Framework: Are the Laws Fit for Purpose?
Loren Voss, Public Service Fellow at Lawfare, sits down with Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Linda Singh, former Adjutant General of Maryland, and Chris Mirasola, As...
Lawfare Daily: CPPA’s Tom Kemp on Data Brokers, Privacy, and State Enforcement
Tom Kemp, executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), joins Lawfare’s Justin Sherman to discuss California’s new Delete Req...
Lawfare Live: A Hearing on Anthropic's Preliminary Injunction Motion
Following the March 24 hearing in Anthropic's suit challenging its supply chain designation on the AI company's request for a preliminary injunction, ...
Lawfare Daily: The Gulf Widens
As the U.S.-Israel war with Iran continues, it is playing out across the Middle East, particularly in Gulf Arab states and the Strait of Hormuz.
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 20
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, Eric Columb...
Lawfare Archive: TikTok Ban at the Supreme Court
From January 13, 2025: In a live conversation on January 10, Lawfare Tarbell Fellow in Artificial Intelligence Kevin Frazier talked to Lawfare Senior...
Lawfare Archive: Accountability for Abu Ghraib
From December 23, 2024: On today's podcast, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett talks with Michael Posner, a professor of business and human right...
Lawfare Daily: Can the President Declare an Elections Emergency?
A draft executive order has been floating around that would assert presidential control over elections all over the country. Lawfare Editor in Chief B...
Rational Security: The “Take a Light Out of Crime” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Natalie Orpett, and Ariane Tabatabai to talk through the week’s big news in nat...
Lawfare Daily: Iran Will Retaliate in the U.S., and We May Not See It in Time
In this episode, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Troy Edwards joins Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg to discuss Iran’s history of drawing from a r...
Lawfare Daily: National Security, Counterintelligence, and Counterespionage: A Guide for the Perplexed
In today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with his former FBI colleague retired Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derek Pie...
Lawfare Daily: Inside Iran's Complicated Relationship with Russia
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to an expert on Russian foreign policy in the Middle East, Director of the Eura...
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 13
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Eric Columbus, Roge...
Lawfare Archive: Elliot Jones on the Importance and Current Limitations of AI Testing
From August 30, 2024: Elliot Jones, a Senior Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas Universi...
Lawfare Archive: Steve Coll on Saddam Hussein and the Limits of American Power in the Middle East
From September 26, 2024: Steve Coll’s latest book, “The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq,” see...
Lawfare Daily: The State of Syria, with Charles Lister
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and head of i...
Rational Security: The “Stop Cap” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Kate Klonick, Molly Roberts, and Troy Edwards to talk through the week’s big national security n...
Lawfare Daily: Matt Olsen Talks Iran, the Justice Department, and FISA 702
Former Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matt Olsen joins Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss the terrorist threat from...
Lawfare Daily: Does the U.S. Have a Drone Defense Problem?
On today’s episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Fabian Hoffman, a missile expert and author of Missile Matters, and senior U...
Lawfare Daily: “I’m angry that I exist”: Nihilistic Violent Extremism with Seamus Hughes and Jacob Ware
Seamus Hughes, a senior research faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education...