The Lawfare Podcast

The Lawfare Podcast

The Lawfare Institute

Episodes 2,980
Avg. Duration 52m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.7 (6,234)
Since Jan 2012
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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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.

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Rational Security: The “Forbidden Fruit” Edition

Jun 12, 2026 1h 20m

This week, Scott was joined by his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Michael Feinberg, and Molly Roberts to talk through the week’s big news in national security, including:“Blanche Check.” DOJ may…

Lawfare Daily: How Escalations in Lebanon May Prolong the Iran War, with Joel Braunold

Jun 12, 2026 57m

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 in their regular series on recent developments…

Lawfare Daily: Why Immigrants are Challenging the Conditions of their Detention

Jun 11, 2026 51m

The Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies have resulted in an unprecedented number of people being held in detention facilities. Now, lawsuits across the country are…

Lawfare Daily: Congressional Resolutions to End the War in Iran

Jun 10, 2026 55m

On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett speaks with Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson about what Congress can do to direct the president to end the war in Iran. Scott's recent article in…

Lawfare Daily: Lies, Laws, and Campaigns

Jun 09, 2026 51m

Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Andrew Weissmann to discuss Weissmann’s new book, “Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America,” falsehoods in political discourse, and…

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 5

Jun 08, 2026 1h 35m

In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts to discuss argument at the…

Lawfare Archive: A Victory for Guatemalan Democracy

Jun 07, 2026 56m

From February 12, 2024: On January 15, Bernardo Arévalo took office as the new president of Guatemala. The transfer of power had been far from assured: after Arévalo triumphed in August elections as…

Lawfare Archive: Social Security, the ‘Death Master File,’ and Immigration Enforcement

Jun 06, 2026 52m

From May 2, 2025: As the Trump administration seeks to escalate its immigration crackdown, the government has turned to a concerning source of information for data on immigrants: the Social Security…

Lawfare Daily: The Jan. 6 Pardonee Crime Wave with Katherine Pompilio

Jun 05, 2026 39m

In a new report for Lawfare, Associate Editor Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 of the more than 1,500 individuals granted clemency by President Trump for their roles in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack have…

Rational Security: The “Mosquitos and Heat and Sweaty and Eww” Edition

Jun 04, 2026 1h 12m

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina and Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, and Lawfare Contributing Editor and Vice President of Research, Security…

Lawfare Daily: Drone Wars in Ukraine

Jun 04, 2026 44m

"Jackie" is the call signal of an American Army veteran who volunteered in 2022 with the Ukrainian military and has been fighting the Russians ever since. He's become a significant figure in the…

Lawfare Daily: Pope Leo XIV Takes on Silicon Valley with Christopher Hale and Renée DiResta

Jun 03, 2026 49m

Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical treats AI as the defining social question of our time: not just a technical shift, but a moral fight over dignity, labor, truth, war, and power.In a Lawfare Live on…

Lawfare Daily: Inside the Upheaval of the Second Trump Administration with Emily Bazelon

Jun 02, 2026 41m

On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Emily Bazelon, a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine, the Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law at Yale…

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 29

Jun 01, 2026 1h 33m

In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts to discuss three legal…

Lawfare Archive: White House Pressure, the Justice Department and the Election

May 31, 2026 52m

From October 9, 2021: The majority staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee has issued an interim report, entitled “Subverting Justice: How the Former President and His Allies Pressured DOJ to…

Lawfare Archive: The Public Integrity Section, Threats, and Criminal Contempt with John Keller

May 30, 2026 1h 20m

From May 27, 2025: John Keller, now a partner at Walden, Macht, Haran, & Williams, channeled his experience as the former Chief of the Public Integrity Section at the Department of Justice to…

Lawfare Daily: How Ukraine Is Winning the Drone War

May 29, 2026 32m

Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Jimmy Rushton, a Kyiv-based journalist and security analyst who recently published, “How Ukraine gained the upper hand in the drone war against…

Rational Security: The “Potty Like It’s 1999” Edition

May 28, 2026 1h 8m

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower and Eric Columbus, and his Brookings colleague Molly Reynolds, to talk through a couple of the week’s big news stories in domestic…

Lawfare Daily: Russia’s ‘Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks,’ with Sean Wiswesser

May 28, 2026 36m

Sean Wiswesser, author of the new book, “Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War,” and a former senior operations officer with the CIA, joins Lawfare’s…

Lawfare Daily: Investigating the Investigators: Sophia Yan on Journalism in the PRC

May 27, 2026 47m

Senior Editor Michael Feinberg sits down with Sophia Yan, a senior foreign correspondent with The Telegraph, to discuss her time reporting on the Chinese government, and how it leveraged its security…

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