The Lawfare Podcast
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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: Mayor Adams, the Feds, and a Whole Lot of Foreign Money
From September 30, 2024: New York Mayor Eric Adams is facing indictment in connection with a foreign influence scheme involving Turkey. It’s the lates...
Lawfare Daily: Ask Us Anything About 2025
Today's Lawfare Daily is Lawfare's annual "Ask Us Anything" mailbag episode where Lawfare contributors answered listener-submitted questions.
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Lawfare Archive: FISA 702 Passes the House
From April 16, 2024: Friday morning, the House of Representatives suddenly—after failing to do so earlier in the week—took up the reauthorization of F...
Lawfare Archive: Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine and the International Legal Order
From April 4, 2023: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has tested the international legal order like never before. For many, the fact that a nuclear power a...
Rational Security: The “Inadequate Chicken Moved to Inferior Location” Special End-of-Year Edition
For the podcast’s annual end-of-year episode, Scott sat down with co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes, Senior Editor Anna Bower, and Managing Editor Tyle...
Lawfare Daily: Tom Brzozowski on Domestic Terrorism Investigations and Prosecutions
Senior Editor Michael Feinberg and Tom Brzozowski, formerly of the Justice Department, sit down to talk over recent changes set in motion by the White...
Lawfare Daily: The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act
In this episode, Ariane Tabatabai, Scott R. Anderson, and Loren Voss discuss the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026. They...
Lawfare Archive: Lidsky and Koningisor on First Amendment Disequilibrium
From March 6, 2024: Executive branch constraints and the posture of the media have shifted in significant ways over the past two decades. Lyrissa Lids...
Lawfare Archive: Ask Us Anything About 2024
From January 2, 2025: You called in with your questions, and Lawfare contributors have answers! Benjamin Wittes, Kevin Frazier, Quinta Jurecic, Eugeni...
Lawfare Daily: The Year That Was: 2025
Every year, Lawfare publishes a retrospective of the year that passed. Today, we’re pleased to bring you an audio debrief of that article, The Year Th...
Lawfare Archive: The National Security Law Podcast: Han Shot First
From October 18, 2017: If you were unsure about whether your hosts are geeks, this episode will help settle the question. But before we get to what Pr...
Lawfare Archive: ‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
From September 19, 2024: On April 14, 2022, New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac woke up to a stunning four-word tweet from El...
Lawfare Daily: Civ-Mil Relations: Where Are We Now and How Did We Get Here?
Loren Voss, Public Service Fellow at Lawfare, sits down with Kori Schake, senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the...
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 19
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Eric Co...
Lawfare Archive: Why Pakistan is Deporting Afghan Refugees with Madiha Afzal
From November 20, 2023: Over the past few weeks, the country of Pakistan has pursued an aggressive wave of deportations targeting thousands of Afghan...
Lawfare Archive: Memorializing Babyn Yar after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
From July 1, 2022: When a Russian missile recently struck a TV tower in Kyiv, near Babyn Yar, the site of Nazi mass murders during the Holocaust, some...
Lawfare Daily: ‘Deportation, Inc.’ and the Rise of the Immigration Enforcement Economy
Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with SITU’s Deputy Director of Research Gauri Bahuguna, Detention Watch Network’s Advocacy Director Se...
Lawfare Daily: Trump Admin Attacks on Inspectors General with Cristin Dorgelo and Rob Storch
Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Cristin Dorgelo, a former senior adviser for management at the Office of Management and Budget, a...
Rational Security: The “Chestbursters Roasting on an Open Fire” Edition
This week, Scott down with his Lawfare colleagues Alan Rozenshtein and Ari Tabatabai to talk through a few of the week’s big national security news st...
Lawfare Daily: Scott Anderson on How Social Media Platforms Should Handle Unrecognized Regimes
Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein speaks with Scott Anderson, Senior Editor at Lawfare, fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution...
Lawfare Daily: Ukraine’s Asymmetric Blueprint in the Black Sea
At the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia held clear naval superiority in the Black Sea. Over the course of the war, Ukraine has deve...
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 12
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Eric Co...
Lawfare Archive: Introducing Allies: A Podcast Series from Lawfare and Goat Rodeo
From May 16, 2022: Today, Lawfare and Goat Rodeo released the first two episodes of Allies, a podcast series that traces the U.S.’s efforts to protect...
Lawfare Archive: President-elect Trump's National Security Appointments
From November 16, 2024: Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Alan Rozenshtein, and Quinta Jurecic and...
Lawfare Live: The Trump Administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy
At 10 am ET on Dec. 11, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson; Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor a...
Lawfare Daily: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders
News of a U.S. attack on a boat off the coast of Venezuela—which included a second strike on survivors of the first—has raised new concerns about the...
Rational Security: The “Adverse Possession” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Contributing Editor Alex Zerden to talk through a few of the week’s big natio...
Lawfare Daily: The Defense Tech Paradox, with Susannah Glickman
Susannah Glickman, an assistant professor of history at Stony Brook University who specializes in the political economy of computation and information...
Lawfare Daily: Wikipedia, Ref-Working, and the Battle Over Reality
Wikipedia is more than an encyclopedia. It’s a key part of the internet’s information infrastructure—shaping what people know, what AI models learn, a...
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 5
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Michael Feinberg, Molly Ro...
Lawfare Archive: Lynzy Billing on Afghanistan's Zero Unit Night Raids
From January 24, 2023: In 2019, investigative journalist and photographer Lynzy Billing went to Afghanistan to investigate a very personal story: her...
Lawfare Archive: How Congressional Staffers Helped Our Afghan Allies
From April 5, 2024: A new report from the POPVOX Foundation focuses on a little-known and hugely under-appreciated congressional effort: that of congr...
Lawfare Live: The EU Fines X 120 M Euros - What Comes Next?
On Dec. 5, the European Commission announced that they are fining X (formerlly Twitter) 120 million euros for impersonation scams with “verification,”...
Scaling Laws: Caleb Withers on the Cybersecurity Frontier in the Age of AI
Caleb Withers, a researcher at the Center for a New American Security, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texa...
Lawfare Daily: The End of New START? With John Drennan and Matthew Sharp
New START, the last bilateral nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia, will expire in February 2026 if Washington and Moscow...
Rational Security: The “Living La Vida Off Camera” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Natalie Orpett and Eric Ciaramella to talk through the week’s big national secu...
Lawfare Daily: The Besieged District Judges, with Reynolds Holding and Judge Jed Rakoff
Veteran legal journalist Reynolds Holding, author of "Better Judgment: How Three Judges Are Bringing Justice Back to the Courts," and U.S. District Ju...
Lawfare Daily: America's Defense Industrial Base
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Seth Jones, the President of the Defense and Security Department at the...
Lawfare Daily: Grading the Trump Administration's Cybersecurity Efforts, with Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery
Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is the Senior Director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democraci...
Lawfare Archive: Russia and the American Far-right, with Marlene Laruelle
From November 19, 2024: Lawfare Associate Editor Olivia Manes sat down with with Marlene Laruelle, a Research Professor of International Affairs and P...