Podcasts
Lawfare hosts a variety of podcasts offering different perspectives on national security. You can find them below or wherever you get your podcasts. Lawfare’s podcasts are produced in cooperation with Goat Rodeo and with editing assistance from Jen Patja.
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Rational Security: The “Licking the Cow” Edition
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were once again joined by co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's big national security news. -
Chatter: The War Came to Us, Life and Death in Ukraine with Chris Miller
What led to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022? -
The Lawfare Podcast: Jonathan Cedarbaum and Matt Gluck on the NDAA’s Cyber Provisions
What are the cyber provisions in the NDAA for FY2024?
The Lawfare Podcast is Lawfare’s marquee daily audio production. Members of the Lawfare team interview policymakers, scholars, journalists, analysts, and each other about anything and everything relating to national security law, policy, and current events. Produced in cooperation with the Brookings Institution.
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The Lawfare Podcast: Jonathan Cedarbaum and Matt Gluck on the NDAA’s Cyber Provisions
What are the cyber provisions in the NDAA for FY2024? -
The Lawfare Podcast: Constitutional Law, International Law, and the State
Discussing the interplay between international law and constitutional law -
The Lawfare Podcast: ‘God, Guns, and Sedition’ with Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware
A conversation about a new book on the rise of far-right terrorism in America and how to counter it.
Rational Security is a weekly roundtable podcast co-hosted by Quinta Jurecic, Scott R. Anderson, and Alan Z. Rozenshtein and featuring guests from across the Lawfare family and beyond. Every episode is a lively and irreverent discussion of news, ideas, foreign policy, and law—along with a heavy dose of pop (and not so pop) culture. There’s always terrible segues, lots of laughs, often a muppet, and sometimes even a cocktail or two.
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Rational Security: The “Licking the Cow” Edition
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were once again joined by co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's big national security news. -
Rational Security: The “Fecund Season” Edition
This week, Quinta Jurecic and Scott Anderson reunited with Alan Rozenshtein to discuss the week’s big national security news. -
Rational Security: The “Meatlovers” Edition
This week, Quinta Jurecic and Scott Anderson were joined by Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk over the meaty week of national security news.
Chatter is a weekly long-form conversation podcast hosted by Shane Harris of the Washington Post and David Priess of Lawfare, featuring in-depth discussions with fascinating people at the creative edges of national security. You’ll hear a refreshing mix of authors, national security figures with quirky stories, visual media creatives, technical experts, and new voices exploring areas from Hollywood to history, science to spy fiction.
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Chatter: The War Came to Us, Life and Death in Ukraine with Chris Miller
What led to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022? -
Chatter: The Global Citizenship Industry with Kristin Surak
What is the global citizenship industry? -
Chatter: The Long History of U.S. Foreign Disaster Aid, with Julia Irwin
What was the genesis of USAID and other governmental entities?
Lawfare No Bull features primary source audio from the world of national security law and policy—with all of the unnecessary digressions, unintelligible cross-talk, and other nonsense stripped out.
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Lawfare No Bull: Michael Roman's Motion Hearing to Push for Fulton County's D.A. Fani Willis's Removal From the Case
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Lawfare No Bull: Israel Makes Oral Arguments Countering South Africa’s Genocide Claims in the ICJ
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Lawfare No Bull: ICJ Hears South Africa’s Oral Arguments in Genocide Case Against Israel
Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath is a narrative podcast series exploring the government’s response to the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. From prosecutions to congressional hearings to policy reforms, it tells the story of the search for accountability after the insurrection.
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The Aftermath: #StormTheCapitol
Episode 3 of The Aftermath looks at how Trump and his supporters used social media to orchestrate Jan. 6—and how social media companies failed to stop them. -
The Aftermath: Lawyers for the Coup
Episode 2 of The Aftermath looks at what happened to the lawyers behind the legal strategy to stop the electoral count on Jan. 6. -
The Aftermath: Season 2 Is Here
This season of our narrative podcast series picks up where the Jan. 6 committee leaves off, in the search for accountability after the insurrection.
#LiveFromUkraine features conversations with Ukrainian voices, hosted by Benjamin Wittes and taped live on Twitter Spaces before a live audience. Each guest is a Ukrainian who provides context or analysis of Ukrainian politics and culture that an English-speaking audience might be missing.
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#LiveFromUkraine: Svitlana Khytrenko: "Russia Delenda Est"
Svitlana Khytrenko (@s_khytrenko) is a Ukrainian student who has lived in Germany and Poland since escaping Kyiv back in March. She sat down with Benjamin Wittes on #LiveFromUkraine to talk about her experienc... -
#LiveFromUkraine: Oleksandra Povoroznik Talks Language Politics and Wartime Culture
Oleksandra Povoroznik is a Kyiv-based journalist, film critic and translator, who joins us to discuss the changing politics of language in Ukraine, as well as the country's defiant wartime culture and humor. -
#LiveFromUkraine: Vitalii Ovcharenko Talks About Fighting for Ukraine in the Field
Lawfare Presents: ALLIES is a narrative podcast series that tells the 20-year story of how the U.S. failed its eyes and ears: Afghan translators, interpreters, and other local partners.
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America’s Allies and the War in Afghanistan
The story of the Special Immigrant Visa program for Afghan translators reflects the U.S. government’s ambivalence toward its allies in Afghanistan. -
Allies: How Did the U.S. Leave So Many of Its Local Allies in Afghanistan?
This week, Lawfare and Goat Rodeo released the final episode of Allies. -
Introducing Allies: A Podcast Series from Lawfare and Goat Rodeo
Today, Lawfare and Goat Rodeo released the first two episodes of Allies, a podcast series that traces the U.S.’s efforts to protect Afghan interpreters, translators and other partners.
On April 18, 2019, the Justice Department released the redacted Mueller Report to the public. The 448-page document details a story that has captured America’s attention. From Russian plots to interfere in our election to constitutional questions of executive power, the Mueller Report is potentially one of the most important and consequential documents of our time. But there’s a problem. Very few people have read it.
The Report tells the story of the Mueller Report through the voices of writers, experts, lawyers, and journalists.
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The Report, Episode Thirteen: Pardons On The Table
Today, we released the thirteenth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which recounts the story Robert Mueller lays out in his 448-page report. -
The Report, Episode Twelve: It Will Never Get Out
Today, we released the twelfth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which recounts the story Robert Mueller lays out in his 448-page report. -
The Report, Episode Four: A Tale of Two Trump Towers
The story of the ill-starred effort to build a Trump-branded skyscraper in Moscow and the Trump campaign’s meeting in New York with Russians promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.