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On July 17 at 11am ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Michael Feinberg and Molly Roberts and Lawfare Contributing Editor Renée DiResta to discuss President Trump's primetime address on July 16 where he discussed elections.
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Lawfare Senior Editor Renée DiResta sits down with Senior Editor Kate Klonick and Elissa Redmiles, an assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University. They examine the people who create AI-generated sexual content and whether prominent technical proposals can actually prevent AI systems from generating exploitative content.
For further reading:
Jaron Mink, Lucy Qin, and Elissa M. Redmiles, ââUnlimited Realm of Exploration and Experimentationâ: Methods and Motivations of AI-Generated Sexual Content Creatorsâ, FAccT '26: The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (June 2026)RenĂ©e DiResta and Berin SzĂłka, âGrok, âCensorship,â & the Collapse of Accountability,â Lawfare (January 2026)Lucy Qin, Sharon Wang, Yigit Aydinalp, Marin Scarlett, and Elissa M. Redmiles, "'Did They F***ing Consent to That?': Safer Digital Intimacy via Proactive Protection Against Image-Based Sexual Abuse," USENIX (August 2024)Safe Digital Intimacy.orgPlease note that this podcast discusses sexual violence and the harms of image-based sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised.
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This week, Scott sat down with his colleagues Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee, and Lawfare Contributing Editor and Vice President of Research, Security and Defense at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Ariane Tabatabai, to talk through the weekâs big news in foreign policy, including:
âTruce or Consequences.â The fragile ceasefire that had paused the U.S.-Iran war since the spring now appears to have collapsed. After Iran struck several commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the United States has launched several successive nights of strikes, hitting more than 300 targets across Iran. Iran has in turn retaliated against U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait. Speaking from the NATO summit in Ankara, President Trump declared the June memorandum of understanding âoverâ even as he insisted that talks toward a lasting peace could still continue. By the weekend, Iran had declared the Strait of Hormuz closed, and U.S. officials were describing the ceasefire as fully âbroken down.â Then, on Monday, Trump escalated furtherâdeclaring that the United States would âkeepâ and ârunâ the Strait as its self-styled âGuardian,â reinstate its blockade on Iranian ships, and charge a 20% fee on all cargo passing through, an arrangement Tehran has flatly rejected. Is the war back on? And is there any diplomatic path left to pull both sides back from the brink? âRutte Awakening.â NATOâs leaders gathered in Ankara last week for a summit that Secretary General Mark Rutte billed as the launch of âNATO 3.0ââa stronger, more self-reliant Europe inside an alliance less dependent on the United States. Allies touted rapid progress toward last yearâs pledge to spend 5% of GDP on defense, announcing more than $50 billion in new procurement and at least âŹ70 billion in fresh military aid for Ukraine. But the gathering was overshadowed by friction with President Trump, who publicly berated allies for declining to help in the Iran war and briefly revived his campaign to acquire Greenland before ending on a somewhat more conciliatory note. What did the Ankara summit actually accomplish? And what does âNATO 3.0â mean for the allianceâs future?âBad Bromance.â The once-close alliance between Washington and Jerusalemâand between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahuâis showing unusual public strain. Trump has repeatedly clashed with Netanyahu over Israelâs continued operations in Lebanonâwhich have threatened the Iran ceasefireâand over the stalled second phase of his Gaza peace plan, which has all but wilted as Hamas refuses to disarm and Israel refuses to withdraw. Defense Secretary Hegseth abruptly canceled a planned trip to Israel, and a possible F-35 sale to Turkey has added to the unease. The tensions turned vivid this past week when Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said he was detained for more than an hour by armed Israeli settlersâand then by IDF soldiersâduring a West Bank visit, and armed settlers attacked a CNN crew and other journalists days later. At home, Israeli confidence in Trump has plummeted in advance of Israeli elections in October, even as U.S. primaries have produced a record number of candidates critical of Israel, particularly on the left. Just how strained is the U.S.-Israeli relationship? And how might Israelâs coming electionsâand Americaâs midtermsâreshape it? (Also see the Atlantic article by Thomas Wright that Julia references here.)In object lessons, Dan reviews the movie The Invite, and itâs complicated. Ari reviews Israeli jazz musician Avishai Cohenâs new album âEternal Childâ and is totally engaged. Scott remembers the influential life and career of Lindsey Graham, separating himself from any alleged involvement in a long-ago gym-mat scandal. And Julia is in love with post-SCIF life, especially one in which she can work from the serenity of her motherâs paradisiacal porch.
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On todayâs episode, Lawfareâs Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Maria Snegovaya, a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about how the Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy sites are shifting attitudes towards the war inside Russia. They also discuss Mariaâs latest report, co-authored with Jade McGlynn, called âRussian Attitudes Are Shifting as the Warâs Effects Come Home.â
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On this episode, Senior Editor Kate Klonick speaks with Steve Feldstein, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about his recent Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists essay on AI targeting systems. Feldstein argues that the conventional wisdom about AI warfare has it backwards: the technology's battlefield debut in Iran, Ukraine, and Gaza is real and consequential, but AI targeting is not a model you downloadâit's a stack of surveillance infrastructure, data pipelines, battle management software, and strike capacity that takes decades and billions to build, which means it will spread far more slowly and unevenly than the common narrative suggests.
Among the things they discuss: what the Iran War's staggering Maven numbers do and don't prove, how Israel became the case study in what it actually takes to build an AI kill chain, why the same handful of American tech companies that govern online speech now supply the infrastructure of targetingâand who is accountable when they do, whether the UAE is next, and whether export controls, or norms, can realistically slow any of it down.
Additional resources:
Steve Feldstein, âBytes and Bullets: Global Rivalry, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfareâ (St. Martin's Press, September 2026)Steve Feldstein, "Anthropic-Pentagon Feud Over AI Technology Is a Bad Sign" (Foreign Policy, February 2026)Steve Feldstein, âThe Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistanceâ (Oxford University Press, 2021)To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute.
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Lawfare Contributing Editor Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Eric Ciaramella, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Samuel Charap, Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, to take stock of the U.S.-led negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. They discuss the improvements in Ukraine's position, the structure of negotiations, territorial questions, and security commitments to Ukraine.
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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff to discuss the Justice Department settling a second suit with Michael Flynn, developments in the E. Jean Carroll litigation, the D.C. Circuit denying a stay pending appeal of the order to take Trumpâs name off the Kennedy Center, and more.
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From October 30, 2024: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has taken a leading role in coordinating efforts to secure the 2024 electionâfrom ensuring the physical security of election workers, to protecting election systems from cyber threats, to identifying foreign influence campaigns and preparing for deepfakes. With a week until Election Day, Senior Editors Quinta Jurecic and Eugenia Lostri spoke with CISAâs Cait Conley, Senior Advisor to the agencyâs director, about how CISA is working to protect the vote.
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From April 10, 2025: On today's episode, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett spoke with Tara Varma, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the latest in French politics. On March 31, far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement and banned from politics, though polling showed her in the lead for the 2027 presidential elections. In the last few weeks, current French president Emmanuel Macron has been carving out a place for French leadership amidst the upheaval in Europeâs relationship with the United States. Meanwhile, the push to build European defense capacityâand Trumpâs new tariffsâare raising a lot of complicated questions.
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On todayâs episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Carissa VĂ©liz, an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, as well as a tutorial fellow at Hertford College, at the University of Oxford. They speak about VĂ©lizâs paradigm-shifting, free-ranging new book, âProphecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI,â including discussions on the history of prediction, why a healthy democracyâand a life well livedârequires uncertainty, and VĂ©lizâs belief that âartificial intelligence is the new Oracle of Delphi and tech executives the new prophets.â
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This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Editor in Chief and co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes and Senior Editors Anna Bower and Michael Feinberg to talk through the latest in national security news, including:
âHumphreyâs Executioner.â On June 29, the Supreme Court closed out its term with a trio of decisions on the presidentâs power to fire officials at supposedly independent agencies. In Trump v. Slaughter, a 6â3 majority upheld Trumpâs firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter and overruled the 90-year-old precedent Humphreyâs Executor, handing the president at-will removal power over roughly two dozen multimember agencies. The same day, in Trump v. Cook, the Court refused 5â4 to let Trump remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, carving out a special exemption for the central bank. And a day later, in Blanche v. Perlmutter, the justices declined to let Trump oust Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, whose office sits within the legislative branch. Taken together, what do these cases tell us about the unitary executive and the future of agency independence?âFor Your Lies Only.â The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is in freefall. Since Bill Pulteâa housing-finance official with no intelligence backgroundâtook over as acting DNI on June 19, he has demanded a roster of every employee, fired the head of the office that oversees the Presidentâs Daily Brief, and all but liquidated the National Intelligence Council. The fight over his appointment has already cost the government its Section 702 surveillance authority, which lawmakers let lapse rather than leave in his hands, and Trump abruptly canceled the confirmation hearing for his own permanent nominee, Jay Clayton, to keep the âless shackledâ Pulte in place. How did the nationâs top intelligence coordinator get hereâand how much damage can a politicized ODNI actually do?âFixer Upper.â In one of the stranger turns of the Trump era, Michael Cohenâthe former âfixerâ whose testimony helped convict Trump of 34 feloniesâsays he and the president have reconciled. Cohen, who once vowed to flee the country if Trump won, said that the ice between them âdidnât just melt, it broke,â and he is now taking a weekend slot on a conservative station with what he says was Trumpâs âglowing recommendation.â The thaw arrives as Trumpâs appeal of his New York conviction and related civil fraud judgment grind forwardâand after Cohen publicly claimed he felt âpressured and coercedâ to testify. What might Cohenâs turn mean for that pending appeal?In object lessons, everyone is in a unifying mood. Ben demonstrates how RAGtime, his co-creation with AI overlord Claude to develop and analyze datasets, can find common cause between this weekâs co-hosts. Mike is enthusiastic about the new Criterion Collection bringing together all of Stanley Kubrickâs works. Scott is reaching for perhaps humanityâs greatest unifierâa certain beverage that can be enjoyed across political persuasions and coasts alike. And Anna is bringing us all to the world of personal essays with Jo Ann Beardâs âThe Fourth State of Matter.â
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For today's episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Vox Senior Correspondent Joshua Keating to discuss his special new series on how artificial intelligence is impacting the use and development of nuclear weapons. Together, they explore what AI may mean for nuclear command and control moving forward, how it is impacting nuclear arms development, how these trends are intersecting the breakdown of the global nonproliferation regime, and what it all means for the risk of nuclear escalation moving forward.
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Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes talks with Executive Editor Natalie Orpett and Senior Editors Loren Voss and Molly Roberts about the limits the Constitution and statutes put on the use of military in U.S. electionsâas well as the arguments an eager executive might make to skirt those restrictions. They discuss how the history of domestic deployment law shows that legislators have long believed voting deserves special protection from military involvement. They also explain why, ahead of the 2026 midterms, that isn't as reassuring as it might sound.
For more on this topic, see two recently published articles by Orpett, Voss, and Roberts in Lawfare on how the law doesâand doesnâtâkeep the military out of elections.
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On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett talks with Lawfare Senior Editor Mike Feinberg and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee about the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, which was created to oversee the intelligence community. But much like the IC itself, the ODNI is somewhat mysterious to the general publicâwhich makes it difficult to tell when something is going wrong. They talk about what ODNI does, why it exists at all, and how recent developments are undermining its mission.
Read more of Mike and Juliaâs analysis in their recent article in Lawfare, âGradually, and Then Suddenly: The Decline and Fall of ODNI.â
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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Kate Klonick, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Courtâs rulings in the birthright citizenship case and Slaughter, indictments over purported vandalism at the Reflecting Pool, former CIA Director John Brennanâs civil suit against the Department of Justice, geofencing warrants, and more.
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From September 1, 2023: The National Intelligence Strategy is out, and David Kris, a founder of Culper Partners, sat down to talk about it with Michael Collins, the acting head of the National Intelligence Council. They discussed many aspects of U.S. national security, defense, cyber, and intelligence strategy, including the increasing geopolitical significance of non-state entities, and even the meaning of the word intelligence itself. They also cover Mike's long and illustrious career inside the U.S. intelligence community and his thoughts about the future of U.S. intelligence.
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From July 2, 2025: 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 handling of the U.S. military. Cohn discusses the firings of senior military officials, military parades, and the U.S. military at the U.S-Mexico border and in Los Angeles. She also assesses which policies are of genuine concern and which are overstated.
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From September 24, 2024: Israel and Hezbollah seem to be headed for a major war. Over the past several weeks, Israel has taken a series of escalatory steps along its northern border, targeting major Hezbollah figures, blowing up pagers used by thousands of Hezbollah operatives, andâmost recentlyâhitting targets all over southern Lebanon associated with Hezbollah. Will it lead to all-out war?
Lawfareâs Editor-in-Chief, Benjamin Wittes, sat down with Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman to talk over the latest developments between Israel and its most capable military foe.
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On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett talks with Nick Bednar, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and a contributing editor at Lawfare. They talk about two Supreme Court cases issued last week that will have a huge impact on the president's authority over agencies that Congress set up to be independent. In Slaughter v. Trump, the Court held that the president has the power to remove members of independent agencies who had previously been understood to have employment protections that forbade the president from firing them. In Cook v. Trump, the Court carved out a special exception to that rule for the Federal Reserve. They discuss Nick's recent article for Lawfare, what the opinions say, what they fail to say, and what it means for the workforce that makes the federal government function.
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Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Professor Javier Corrales, Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science and Department Chair of Political Science at Amherst College, to discuss the Trump administration's efforts to pressure Cuba and support regime change there. They discuss why the Cuban regime stays in power, the effectiveness of different U.S. policy instruments used against Cuba, why Professor Corrales thinks that the Venezuela approach probably would not work in Cuba, and what a post-communist Cuba might look like.
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