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The Lawfare Institute

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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56:14

Lawfare Daily: Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric...

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2025/11/26

Lawfare Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace join Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss the last week's machinations surrounding a potential Russia-Ukraine peace deal. What is the actual American position? Is the United States abandoning Ukraine? Or is it now backing off the 28-point document it reportedly put together with Russian negotiators? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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46:56

Lawfare Daily: Inside the Law Letting Senators Sue...

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2025/11/25

Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes talks with Executive Editor Natalie Orpett and Senior Editor Michael Feinberg about their recent Lawfare article examining a little-noticed piece of legislation that was slipped into the deal to end the government shutdown—one that gives senators a civil right of action to sue the U.S. government when their phone or metadata is accessed without notice, with a payout of $500,000 per “instance.”They discuss the potential consequences of the law for surveillance,

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40:39

Lawfare Live: Judge Dismisses Indictments Against...

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2025/11/24

At 4 pm ET, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff and Lawfare Contributor James Pearce to discuss a judge dismissing the indictments against both former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that Lindsey Halligan was not properly appointed to served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.You can also watch the conversation on YouTube. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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14:06

November Minipod: Can President Trump Run for a Third...

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2025/11/24

On this month’s minipod,LawfareAssociate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talks to Michigan State University Law Professor Brian Kalt about how seriously we should take President Trump’s threats to run for a 3rd term and who would have standing to challenge the effort.Read his article in The Atlantic here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:45:18

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/11/24

In alive conversation onYouTube,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareSenior Editors Molly Roberts, Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus andLawfarePublic Service Fellow Loren Voss to discuss a judge ordering the Trump administration to end the National Guard deployment in D.C., updates in the prosecutions of Letitia James and James Comey, a hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s civil case, and more.You can find information onlegal challenges to Trump administration actions here. And

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57:06

Lawfare Archive: The Saudi-Iran Deal Featuring China

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2025/11/23

From April 13, 2023: A few weeks ago, China made headlines for brokering a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to thaw diplomatic relations after seven years of cutting ties and even more years of tense relations. Since then, we've already begun to see some downstream effects of this deal, with significant movement on the war in Yemen and the reopening of Iran's embassy in Saudi Arabia.This is a story with two major strands—one about the potential effects of a successful normalization between Saudi

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42:59

Lawfare Archive: Explaining the Michigan Fake...

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2025/11/22

From August 16, 2023: On July 18, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nesselunveiled criminal chargesagainst 16 people—the “fake electors” from that state who featured in Trump’s effort to hold onto power in 2020. Just a few weeks later, a special counsel in Michigan announced additional charges related to the 2020 election,this time againstthree peoplewho allegedly accessed voting machines in the state without authorization. So if you’ve been tracking developments when it comes to accountability for

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1:03:19

Lawfare Daily: The New U.N. Security Council...

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2025/11/21

For today’s episode,LawfareSenior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace and aLawfarecontributing editor, and Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, the John C. Whitehead Visiting Fellow in International Diplomacy at the Brookings Institution, who previously served as Undersecretary General for Political Affairs at the United Nations as well as the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, among other senior

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53:33

Lawfare Live: Discussing the Hearings on James...

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2025/11/20

At 4pm ET on Nov. 19, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff to discuss two court hearings that occurred that day. First they discussed the hearing in the prosecution of James Comey. Then they briefly discussed the hearing in J.G.G. v. Trump, over potential contempt proceedings against the government concerning actions taken surrounding the deportation of some El Salvador immigrants to CECOT.This episode is a part of

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49:42

Lawfare Daily: All Things Ukrainian Energy with...

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2025/11/20

Lawfare Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina has written two recent articles for Lawfare on energy and the Ukraine war. The first deals with the ongoing Russian attacks on the Ukrainian civilian power grid—attacks which actually interfered with the recording of this very podcast. The second details an ongoing corruption scandal rocking the Ukrainian political system, emerging from an alleged kickback scheme in the energy sector. Lapatina sits down with Benjamin Wittes to talk about the current power

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1:17:47

Rational Security: The “Chicken Fight” Edition

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2025/11/19

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower, Michael Feinberg, and Roger Parloff to talk through the week’s big domestic news stories, including:“Diving Head First into the Shallow End of the Jury Pool.” A federal magistrate judge has concluded that the government may well have made substantial misrepresentations and other errors before the Grand Jury in the prosecution of former FBI director James Comey, and has ruled that Comey is entitled access to extraordinary discovery to

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46:13

Lawfare Daily: Emily Hoge on Russian Mobsters at the...

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2025/11/19

Benjamin Wittes sits down with Emily Hoge, a historian at Clemson University, who has written a pair of pieces forLawfarerecently aboutRussian mobstersand the war in Ukraine. They’re getting out of prison in exchange for service at the front. Some of them are surviving their service there and returning home by way of reward—and the Russian crime rate is skyrocketing as a result. Is all of this altering the Russian social contract, which promised to make the violence of the 1990s a thing of the past

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57:53

Lawfare Daily: The Epstein Files and the...

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2025/11/18

Senior Editor Anna Bower speaks with Lawfare Public Service Fellow Michael Feinberg and Senior Editor Eric Columbus about the extraordinary actions taken by the Justice Department and Congress in response to calls for the release of investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein. The discussion covers the DOJ’s unusual “review” of the Epstein files, Congress’s oversight role, proposed legislation aimed at compelling the release of these materials, and the department’s newly announced probe into

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1:29:23

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/11/17

In alive conversation onYouTube,LawfareExecutive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down withLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower, Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus andLawfarePublic Service Fellow Loren Voss to discuss an update in the Georgia prosecution of President Trump, a hearing on whether Lindsey Halligan was lawfully appointed as U.S. attorney, a district court barring the deployment of National Guard to Portland, and more.You can find information onlegal challenges to Trump administration actions here

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49:43

Lawfare Archive: Big Tech and Law Enforcement, with...

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2025/11/16

From August 9, 2024: On today's episode,Lawfare's Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri speaks with Senior Privacy Engineer at Netflix and former Army Reserve intelligence officer, Lukas Bundonis. They talked about the relationship between law enforcement and tech companies, what that relationship looks like in the U.S. and other countries, and the different ways in which that communication can be politicized. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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49:42

Lawfare Archive: Will Generative AI Reshape Elections?

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2025/11/15

From November 29, 2023: Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard a great deal over the last year about generative AI and how it’s going to reshape various aspects of our society. That includes elections. With one year until the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we thought it would be a good time to step back and take a look at how generative AI might and might not make a difference when it comes to the political landscape. Luckily, Matt Perault and Scott Babwah Brennen of the UNC

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44:44

Scaling Laws: The AI Economy and You: How AI Is,...

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2025/11/14

Anton Korinek, a professor of economics at the University of Virginia and newly appointed economist to Anthropic's Economic Advisory Council; Nathan Goldschlag, Director of Research at the Economic Innovation Group; and Bharat Chander, Economist at Stanford Digital Economy Lab, join Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to sort through the myths, truths, and ambiguities that shape the important debate around the

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1:25:41

Rational Security: The “Video Killed the Podcast...

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2025/11/13

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Natalie Orpett, Eric Columbus, and Molly Roberts, to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including:“I Don’t Think You’re Ready for the Shutdown.” The record-setting shutdown of the U.S. government is set to come to an end after eight Democratic senators agreed to a continuing resolution that will fund all of the government through January 30, certain chunks of the government all the way through the end of the fiscal year,

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49:46

Lawfare Daily: Revolutions and the Rule of Law

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2025/11/13

In this episode, Michael Feinberg interviews Fareed Zakaria, whose book “Age of Revolutions” has just been issued with a new afterword in light of the return of the Trump Administration. The two discuss intellectual, cultural, and populist revolutions from history and what those events have to teach us about our current political moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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50:35

Lawfare Daily: Tim Wu on ‘The Age of Extraction’

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2025/11/12

LawfareSenior Editors Kate Klonick and Alan Rozenshtein talk to Columbia law professor Tim Wu about this new book,“The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity.”The book is the final part of what Wu calls his trilogy—building on his prior best selling books“The Master Switch”and“Attention Merchants.”Klonick and Rozenshtein speak with Wu about how he sees the platforms as evolving in the 15 years since he started this series and what he sees as

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