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The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition

The Lawfare Podcastis theweekly audio production of theLawfarestaffin cooperation with the Brookings Institution.Podcast episodesincludeinterviews with policymakers, scholars, journalists, and analysts; events and panel discussions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:14:26

Rational Security: The “Wea Culpa” Edition

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2025/11/05

This week, Scott sat down with co-hosts emeritus Benjamin Wittes and Alan Rozenshtein, and Senior Editor Kate Klonick, to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including:“Cracks in the Foundation.” The conservative Heritage Foundation—and the broader conservative movement it plays a central role in—has been going through a very public crisis over the past week after its president, Kevin Roberts, came to the defense of right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson after Carlson chose to

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42:45

Lawfare Daily: The Looming Fall of Pokrovsk

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2025/11/05

In this episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Francis Farrell, a front line reporter at the Kyiv Independent, to discuss the looming fall of Pokrovsk, the recent transformations of the front line, and whether Ukraine can ever give up Donbas, per Russia’s demand. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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55:17

Lawfare Daily: How Social Media Threatens Democracy,...

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2025/11/04

On today’s episode,LawfareSenior Editor Kate Klonick sits down with NYU law professor Rick Pildes to discuss his article,“Political Fragmentation in Democracies in the West,”which was featured in aNew York Times opinion column by Thomas Edsallon the link between smartphone and social media use and threats to democracy.The two discuss the admittedly sprawling topic from a historical perspective—comparing the impactof the internet to that of theprinting press, the radio, and cable television on social

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1:42:15

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/11/03

In alive conversation onYouTube,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareContributor Marty Lederman, Public Service Fellow Loren Voss, and Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus to discuss the Supreme Court’s handling of the legal challenge to the federalization of the National Guard in Chicago, James Comey’s motions to dismiss the indictment against him, ongoing politicization at the Department of Justice, litigation over the Trump administration’s

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56:59

Lawfare Archive: Michael Beckley and Arne Westad on...

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2025/11/02

From July 18, 2024: On today’s episode, Matt Gluck, Research Fellow atLawfare, spoke with Michael Beckley, Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts, and Arne Westad, the Elihu Professor of History at Yale.They discussedBeckley’sandWestad’sarticles in Foreign Affairs on the best path forward for the U.S.-China strategic relationship—in the economic and military contexts. Beckley argues that in the short term, the U.S. should focus on winning its security competition with China, rather than

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54:59

Lawfare Archive: ‘Threat Multiplier,’ Climate, and...

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2025/11/01

From August 27, 2024: On today’s episode, Sherri Goodman, the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security and the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) joinsLawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien to talk about Sherri’s new book,“Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security.”They discuss Sherri’s career in climate security, beginning at the Senate Armed Services Committee before “climate security”

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56:28

Scaling Laws: The GoLaxy Revelations: China's...

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2025/10/31

Alan Rozenshtein, Senior Editor at Lawfare, speaks with Brett Goldstein, Special Advisor to the Chancellor on National Security and Strategic Initiatives at Vanderbilt University; Brett Benson, Associate Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University; and Renée DiResta, Lawfare Contributing Editor and Associate Research Professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy.The conversation covers the evolution of influence operations from crude Russian troll farms to

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1:09:46

Rational Security: The “Tyler’s Revenge” Edition

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2025/10/30

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Public Service Fellow Ari Tabatabai and Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk through the week’s big news in national security, including:“Great APEC-tations.” President Trump is headed to Asia this week, both for a meeting of the regional Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organization and a one-on-one sit down with Chinese president Xi Jinping. It’s a moment destined to spotlight one of the more quixotic areas of the second Trump

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30:39

Lawfare Daily: Why We Fall for Charlatans, with Quico...

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2025/10/30

On today’s episode,LawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Quico Toro, global opinion columnist at the Washington Post and Director of Climate Repair at the Anthropocene Institute, to talk about his new book, “Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses,” which he wrote with his co-author, Moisés Naím.They discuss what defines a charlatan, the cognitive biases they exploit to take people in, and how technological and societal

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49:12

Lawfare Daily: NATO’s Eastern Flank: The View from...

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2025/10/29

Katsiaryna Shmatsina, Eurasia Fellow at Lawfare, sits down with Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Lithuanian Foreign Minister (2020–2024), now a visiting fellow at Stanford University, and Vytis Jurkonis, Associate Professor at Vilnius University and Director of Freedom House’s Lithuania office.They discuss Lithuania’s response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, including shifts in security policy, public sentiment, and military readiness. The conversation covers regional defense,

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41:48

Lawfare Daily: State Cyber Corps and Volunteer Programs

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2025/10/28

Sarah Powazek, Director of the Public Interest Cybersecurity Program at UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and Michael Razeeq, Nonresident Fellow at the Public Interest Cybersecurity Program, joinLawfare’s Justin Sherman to discuss the cyber threats facing states, what options and resources states currently have to address cybersecurity problems, and how the concept of state cyber corps and volunteer programs fits into the picture. They also discuss how states can stand up a cyber

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27:56

October Minipod: Are Domestic Deployments Interfering...

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2025/10/27

On this month’s minipod,LawfareAssociate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked toLawfarePublic Service Fellow Loren Voss about the state of play of the litigation over the federalization and domestic deployments of the National Guard across the country. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:34:10

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/10/27

In alive conversation onYouTube,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareContributor James Pearce and Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Molly Roberts, Roger Parloff and Eric Columbus to discuss the arraignment of Letitia James, legal challenges to the appointments of Lindsey Halligan and Alina Habba to be U.S. attorneys, litigation over the federalization and deployment of National Guard, and so much more.You can find information onlegal challenges to Trump administration actions

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58:00

Lawfare Archive: CYBERCOM Legal Conference: The Role...

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2025/10/26

From April 24, 2024: The annual U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) Legal Conference convenes lawyers across government and the private sector working on cyber issues. This year’s conference focused on the power of partnerships. Executive Editor Natalie Orpett moderated a panel, titled “The Business of Battle: Navigating the Role of the Private Sector in Conflict,” featuring Jonathan Horowitz of the International Committee for the Red Cross, Laurie Blank of the Defense Department’s Office of the General

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40:55

Lawfare Archive: Gabe Rottman on the Justice...

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2025/10/25

From June 5, 2023: It's been about six months since the attorney general issued new guidelines on compulsory process to members of the press in criminal and national security investigations, and two officials of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—Bruce Brown and Gabe Rottman—wrote adetailed analysisof the document in two parts forLawfare.Rottman joinedLawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to go through the document carefully: the long history that led to it, the shifting policies that

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50:10

Scaling Laws: Sen. Scott Wiener on California Senate...

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2025/10/24

California State Senator Scott Wiener, author of Senate Bill 53—a frontier AI safety bill—signed into law by Governor Newsom earlier this month, joins Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor at Minnesota Law and Research Director atLawfare, and Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor atLawfare, to explain the significance of SB 53 in the large debate about how to govern AI.The trio analyze the lessons that Senator Wiener learned from the

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52:25

Lawfare Daily: External Powers Competition in Africa:...

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2025/10/23

Katsiaryna Shmatsina, Eurasia Fellow at Lawfare, is joined by Beverly Ochieng, senior security analyst at Control Risks and non-resident expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), to examine how external powers compete for influence in Africa—and how African states are responding.They discuss the shifting priorities of the second Trump administration, including a “trade not aid” approach, stricter visa policies, and growing pressure on African governments to accept

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1:18:37

Rational Security: The “Pickled Fish in Cozy...

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2025/10/22

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Fellow Eric Columbus, Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina, and Public Service Fellow Loren Voss to talk through the week’s big news in national security, including:“Visiting Concessions.” President Trump once again turned his focus to the conflict in Ukraine, announcing last week that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would be meeting to discuss the conflict in Budapest—though it’s not clear Putin has agreed. This occurred just days

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Lawfare Daily: Political Change in Madagascar and Kenya

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2025/10/22

For today's episode,LawfareForeign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Holly Berkley Fletcher, a former senior CIA Africa analyst, to discuss the recent coup in Madagascar and the death of Kenyan opposition leader and political giant, Raila Odinga.They discussthe reasons for the coup and how Madagascar's neighbors might respond. Berkley Fletcher also explained Odinga's legacy and how his death might change Kenya. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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32:38

Lawfare Live, The Now: Anna Bower

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2025/10/21

In aLawfare Live, The Now on October 20,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareSenior Editor Anna Bower to discussher article about how interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan reached out to her on Signal—and the conversation that followed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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