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 others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfareblog.com.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 2669
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Rational Security: The “Game Changers” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with fellow Senior Editors Molly Reynolds and Alan Rozenshtein to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:
- “One Bill to rule them all, One Bill to find …
Lawfare Daily: The Double Black Box: Ashley Deeks on National Security AI
Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein sits down with Ashley Deeks, the Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, to discuss her new book, “The…
Lawfare Daily: Michael Feinberg on Leaving the FBI
Until late May, Michael Feinberg was a senior FBI counterintelligence agent focused on China. All that changed one weekend, when the Deputy FBI Director found out that he was still friends with a for…
Lawfare Daily: The Offensive Cyber Industry and U.S.-China Relations with Winnona Bernsen
Winnona Bernsen, nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and founder of DistrictCon, joins Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman to discuss her recently released…
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, July 5
In a live conversation on July 3, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss updates in…
Lawfare Archive: Itsiq Benizri on the EU AI Act
From February 16, 2024: The EU has finally agreed to its AI Act. Despite the political agreement reached in December 2023, some nations maintained some reservations about the text, making it uncertai…
Lawfare Archive: Mike Johnson’s National Security Agenda
From November 7, 2023: You probably already know that Rep. Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House. What you may not know is that every single one of the issues on his plate is a national securi…
Lawfare Daily: Teun Janssen on Ukraine and a Big Europe
Teun Jansenn is a staff member at the European Parliament who works on issues of EU expansion and support for Ukraine. He joined Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk about the prospects of Europe'…
Lawfare Daily: Civil-Military Relations in the Trump Administration
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviews Lindsay Cohn, an associate professor at the Naval War College and Columbia University, to discuss the Trump administration's…
Lawfare Daily: Prosecuting the Sahel's War Influencers with Lindsay Freeman
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Lindsay Freeman, Director of Technology, Law & Policy at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, to discuss her re…
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 27
In a live conversation on June 27, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supre…
Lawfare Archive: Steve Vladeck on Emergency Powers and Coronavirus
From March 19, 2020: What can the president do in a national emergency? What limits what the president can do? What authorizes the president to do all those things he can do in a national emergency? …
Lawfare Archive: Natan Sachs on Israeli Anti-solutionism
From December 5, 2015: The show this week features Natan Sachs, a Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, who recently published an article in Foreign Affairs on anti-solutionism as st…
Lawfare Daily: Ukraine-Russia Negotiations with Eric Ciaramella and Samuel Charap
Lawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Eric Ciaramella, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Samuel Charap, Senior Political Scientist at Rand Corpora…
Rational Security: The “Pronghorn Shirt Daily” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Natalie Orpett, and University of Virginia School of Law professor Ashley Deeks, to talk through the week’s big national secu…
Lawfare Daily: ‘Ransom War’ with Max Smeets
Max Smeets, Co-Director of Virtual Routes and Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, joins Lawfare’s Jonathan Cedarbaum and Justin Sherman to discuss his recently released book “Ransom War: How Cybercrime …
Lawfare Daily: A Right to Warn: Protecting AI Whistleblowers with Charlie Bullock
In the wake of controversy over OpenAI’s restrictive nondisclosure agreements, a bipartisan group of senators has introduced the AI Whistleblower Protection Act. In this episode, Lawfare Research Dir…
Lawfare Daily: U.S. Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Facilities
In a live conversation on June 23, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editor Scott Anderson, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and CSIS fellow Daniel Byman, and Vice Presiden…
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 20
In a live conversation on June 20, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce and Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Scott Anderson, and Roger Parloff to …
Lawfare Archive: Eric Adamson on the NATO Summit
From July 14, 2023: The NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, just wrapped up, and the big news is that Sweden is in, and Ukraine is not. Eric Adamson of the Atlantic Council and the Swedish Defense Ass…