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Lawfare Daily: Sept. 11, 2001, 25 Years Later

On today’s episode, on the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Lawfare Associate Editor Katherine Pompilio sits down with five members of the Lawfare team—Public Service Fellow Jul

Rational Security: The “Fifth Anniversary Hot Take Takedown” Edition

This week, Scott celebrated the fifth anniversary of Rational Security 2.0 with the return of co-hosts emeriti Shane Harris, Quinta Jurecic, and Benjamin Wittes. In varyi

Lawfare Daily: The National Guard in Washington, D.C.

Over a year ago, President Trump sent 800 National Guard members to the streets of Washington D.C., citing a purported crime emergency. Since then, thousands of armed tro

Lawfare Daily: Why Autocrats Hate Cities with Ambassador Nina Hachigian

On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Ambassador Nina Hachigian, President and CEO of the Alliance for Local Leaders International and

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 4

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

Lawfare Archive: The Violent Extremist Threat to Critical Infrastructure in the United States

From October 24, 2022: Last month, the George Washington University Program on Extremism published a report called, “Mayhem, Murder, and Misdirection: Violent Extremist A

Lawfare Archive: An Election in Germany

From September 28, 2021: Over the weekend, Germany held elections to see who will succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor. The results are in, but there's still a l

Lawfare Archive: Juliette Kayyem on Dealing with Disasters

From March 29, 2023: We live in a time of seemingly constant catastrophes, and we always seem a step behind and still fumble when they occur. It's no longer about prevent

Lawfare Daily: Mike Schmidt Talks CHIPS and U.S. Industrial Policy

When Congress passed the CHIPS Act in 2022, it was the first major piece of U.S. industrial policy legislation in decades and was intended to expand America's ability to

Rational Security: The "Whale of a Tale" Edition

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Editors Molly Roberts and Eric Columbus, and Contributing Editor Renée DiResta, to talk through the week’s bi

Lawfare Daily: Peter Salib on the Legal and Policy Ramifications of the OpenAI-Hugging Face Postmortems

Peter Salib, Associate Professor at the UH Law Center and co-Director of the Center on AI Law & Risk, joins Kevin Frazier, Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program a

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 1

In a conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Molly Roberts and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court granting a

Lawfare Daily: How Terrorist Groups are Using Artificial Intelligence

Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Tricia Bacon, professor at American University, and Antonia Juelich, International Security Lead at the Cambridg

August Minipod: Can Anyone Stop President Trump from Cutting Federal Funds to Blue States?

On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talks to Vice President and Director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution M

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, August 28

In a conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, Kate Klonick, and Eric Columbus to discuss a

Lawfare Archive: ‘Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare,’ with Edward Fishman

From March 5, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare general counsel and senior editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Edward Fishman, a senior research scholar at the Center

Lawfare Archive: The Trucker Convoys and Domestic Unrest in Canada

From February 11, 2022: Over the past few weeks, Canada has been living through its own insurrectionary moment, as a series of trucker convoys have used tractor trailer t

Lawfare Daily: Israel's Most Consequential Election, with Natan Sachs

Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Natan Sachs, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, to discuss who is likely to win the October 27 Israel

Rational Security: The “All Takin’ and No Givin’” Edition

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee, and Contributing Editor Alex Zerden to talk thr

Scaling Laws: Is Meta's Oversight Board a Model for AI Governance?

Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law and a member of Meta’s Oversight Board, joins Kevin Frazier,