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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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1:32:37

Rational Security: The "New Phone, Houthis?" Edition

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2025/03/27

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Roger Parloff to talk through the week of the most Rational Security-esque of national security news stories ever, including:“Oopsec.” In a strong contender for the most ridiculous national security story of the year, senior Trump administration officials appear to have planned a series of airstrikes in Yemen that took place earlier this month through the social messaging app Signal—and they appear to have included The

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45:12

Lawfare Daily: Attack Plans Shared on Signal Released...

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2025/03/27

In a live recording on March 26,LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Shane Harris of The Atlantic to discuss the decision to release the text messages sent by Trump administration officials in the Houthi PC Small Group Signal group chat which accidentally included The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, testimony given in Congress by officials who were in the chat, and what accountability may look like. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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39:37

Lawfare Daily: Shane Harris Talks ‘Houthi PC Small...

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2025/03/26

Shane Harris of The Atlantic joins Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk about war planning on Signal, the Trump administration’s remarkable security lapse, and the testimony of the country’s intelligence chiefs that came in its wake. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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41:36

Lawfare Daily: Tom Kent on the Dismantling of...

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2025/03/25

Tom Kent ran Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is a longtime Russia watcher. He talks to Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes about President Trump’s executive order dismantling Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:28:55

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/03/24

On March 21, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including DOGE’s incursions on the U.S. Institute of Peace, the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, and the firing of probationary employees. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56:23

Lawfare Archive: Charles Dunst on Defeating the...

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2025/03/23

From March 21, 2023: By many accounts, the United States is living through a new era of competition—not just between major powers and strategic rivals, but between ideologies. Around the world, many authoritarian governments seem to be on the rise, even as many liberal democracies are facing a crisis of confidence, including, by some accounts, here in the United States.In a new book entitled,“Defeating the Dictators,” Charles Dunst, a former journalist and current deputy director of research and

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1:05:43

Lawfare Archive: El Salvador’s President Cracks Down...

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2025/03/22

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 gangs. Bukele, who once described himself on Twitter as the “world’s coolest dictator,” has engaged in a prolonged attack on El Salvador’s democratic institutions. And the crackdown has resulted in a range of human rights abuses. At the same time, Bukele really does seem to have been successful in curbing gang violence, and his popularity is

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22:16

Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Bombing of Yemen and the...

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2025/03/21

For today's episode,LawfareForeign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Gregory Johnsen, a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, D.C. Johnsen explains the rationale of the Trump administration's decision to bomb Yemen but argues that it will have little effect on the Houthis. Indeed, Johnsen contends that the Houthis are spoiling for a fight with the United States and Israel, believing that this will generate support within Yemen that will help them increase their

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40:56

Lawfare Daily: Dan Hendrycks on National Security in...

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2025/03/20

Dan Hendrycks, Director of the Center for AI Safety, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the UT Austin School of Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to discuss his recent paper (co-authored with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang), “Superintelligence Strategy.” Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:23:35

Rational Security: The “Berry Boy Blue” Edition

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2025/03/19

This week, Scott sat down with Rational Security veterans and Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Molly Reynolds to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:“House Odds.” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson scored an unlikely win last week, when he kept the narrow (and notoriously fractious) Republican house majority united enough to pass its own continuing resolution to keep the government open—and then successfully got enough Democrats to acquiesce to debate on it for it to

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30:36

Lawfare Daily: The New Syrian Government and Its...

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2025/03/19

For today's episode,LawfareForeign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Steven Heydemann, the Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Smith College, to assess the fast-changing developments in Syria today. Heydemann discusses the surge in communal violence in Syria, the deal between the new Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led government and Syria's Kurds, Israel's counterproductive interventions, and U.S. policy toward the new regime in Damascus. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See

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47:02

Lawfare Daily: Derek Thompson on Abundance and a New...

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2025/03/18

Derek Thompson, a senior editor at The Atlantic and co-author (with Ezra Klein) ofAbundance, joins Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown and a Contributing Editor at Lawfare, and Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the UT Austin School of Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to discuss the theory of Abundance and its feasibility in an age of political discord and institutional distrust. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast

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14:57

March Minipod: What Are the Limits to the President’s...

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2025/03/17

On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Contributing Editor Chris Mirasola about the limits to the deployment of the military, both domestically and internationally. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:30:55

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/03/17

In a live conversation on March 14,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, sat down with assistant professor of law at the University of Kentucky Matt Boaz andLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower and Scott Anderson to discuss legal challenges to the Trump administration’s executive actions, including the detention of permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil, the birthright citizenship executive order, dismantling of USAID, the firing of probationary employees across the federal government, and more.You can

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39:53

Lawfare Archive: Yaya Fanusie on 'Central Bank...

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2025/03/16

From December 15, 2020: Alan Rozenshtein sat down with Yaya Fanusie, a former CIA analyst and an expert on the national security implications of cryptocurrencies, who recently published a paper as part ofLawfare's ongoingDigital Social Contractresearch paper series, entitled, "Central Bank Digital Currencies: The Threat From Money Launderers and How to Stop Them." They talked about how central banks are exploring digital currencies, how those currencies might in turn be used by criminals and

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43:25

Lawfare Archive: Jeff Kosseff on Why the First...

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2025/03/15

From October 6, 2023: The First Amendment protects speech, but what kind? True speech, sure. But what about false or misleading speech? What if it's harmful? After all, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater—or can you?To answer these questions, Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and Senior Editor atLawfarespoke with Jeff Kosseff, whois an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Law in the United States Naval Academy’s Cyber Science Department and a

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51:57

Lawfare Daily: A World Without Caesars

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2025/03/14

This episode of the Lawfare Podcast features Glen Weyl, economist and author at Microsoft Research; Jacob Mchangama, Executive Director of the Future of Free Speech Project at Vanderbilt; and Ravi Iyer, Managing Director of the USC Marshall School Neely Center.Together with Renee DiResta, Associate Research Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, they talk about design vs moderation. Conversations about the challenges of social media often

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50:09

Lawfare Daily: ‘The Rivalry Peril’ with Van Jackson...

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2025/03/13

On today’s episode, Van Jackson, Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, and Michael Brenes, Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Lecturer in History at Yale University, joinLawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien to talk about their new book,“The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy,”in which they make the case for the United States to take a less aggressive approach to China. They discussed

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1:13:59

Rational Security: The “Botanical Bros” Edition

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2025/03/12

This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor and co-host emeritus Alan Rozenshtein and Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:“Lowering the Bar.” Last week, the Trump administration took aim at two leading law firms—Covington & Burling and Perkins Coie—by repealing lawyers’ security clearances and setting limits on the extent to which government actors can contract with them, on the apparent grounds that they worked for

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53:47

Lawfare Daily: Zachary Price on Judging in a Divided...

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2025/03/12

Jack Goldsmith sits down with Zachary Price, Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco and author of the new book, “Constitutional Symmetry: Judging in a Divided Republic,” which argues for judges to make decisions that work “symmetrically” across major partisan and ideological divides. He explores the implications of this theory in the context of the Trump administration's legal actions, particularly regarding the removal power and the Supreme Court's evolving jurisprudence.The two discuss the

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