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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Senior Editors Eric Columbus, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff discussed a hearing over the subpoenas sent to New York Times reporters, a hearing in the criminal case against Nicolas Maduro, the court-appointed U.S. attorney in the Western District of Washington suing over his termination, the first convening of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, and more.
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From March 21, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Gregory Johnsen, a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, D.C. Johnsen explains the rationale of the Trump administration's decision to bomb Yemen but argues that it will have little effect on the Houthis. Indeed, Johnsen contends that the Houthis are spoiling for a fight with the United States and Israel, believing that this will generate support within Yemen that will help them increase their power.
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From October 16, 2024: In early September, the U.S. Justice Department released a trove of information about the Russian influence campaign known as âDoppelgangerââa Kremlin-backed effort that created faux versions of familiar news websites and seeding them with fake material. Just a few weeks later, the German publication SĂŒddeutsche Zeitung reported that it had received a tranche of hacked materials from inside the Doppelganger operation.
Thomas Rid, a professor at Johns Hopkins Universityâs School of Advanced International Studies and the founding director of the schoolâs Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies, got an inside look at those documents. In a new article in Foreign Affairs, âThe Lies Russia Tells Itself,â he examines the âgranular operational insightâ that this material provides into the active measures campaign. He joined the Lawfare Podcast to talk with Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic about his findingsâand why he believes the documents show that âthe biggest boost the Doppelganger campaigners got was from the Westâs own anxious coverage of the project.â
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New York Times White House Correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan speak with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff about their recent bestseller, âRegime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.â
They discuss how close Trump has come to suspending habeas corpus and invoking the Insurrection Act, how the Supreme Courtâs immunity decision has shaped his conduct, his vindictive prosecutions and desire for more, his firings of national security professionals at the behest of Laura Loomer, and more.
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This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee and Senior Editors Eric Columbus and Molly Roberts to talk through the weekâs big news in national security, including:
âThe Manchurian Candidates.â In a primetime address to the nation last Thursday, July 16, President Trump declassified a trove of intelligence documents that he claimed prove Americaâs elections are dangerously vulnerable to foreign interferenceâparticularly by Chinaâand revived his long-standing, evidence-free assertions that the 2020 election was âriggedâ against him. He ordered the Justice Department to prosecute those he claims were involved. But intelligence officials past and present, as well as the documents themselves, draw a sharp line between foreign influence campaigns and actual interference with vote countsâand none of the material supports the claim that any votes were changed. What is actually in the documents that President Trump has declassified? And what does his speech tell us about his intentions for the midterm elections and the 2028 elections beyond?âLeak and Ye Shall Find.â The Trump administration has dramatically escalated its campaign against leakers, culminating in grand jury subpoenas served to New York Times journalists, some at their homes, over their reporting on security concerns relating to the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The Pentagon and the Justice Department have stood up a joint task force to âidentify and prosecute leakers,â and the New York Times is now fighting the subpoenas in court, calling them an attempt to intimidate the press that treads on First Amendment rights. The administration insists that reporters arenât the targetsâonly the people who actually leakedâand said that the reporters are simply witnesses. How much legal jeopardy do the reportersâand the media more broadlyâactually face? And is this a genuine national security effort or an assault on press freedom?âAdvise and Dissent.â Two of the administrationâs most consequential nomineesâJay Clayton, who has been nominated as Director of National Intelligence, and Todd Blanche, who has been nominated as Attorney Generalâsat for their Senate confirmation hearings last week. Clayton, currently U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, repeatedly declined to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, while Blanche was grilled over the now-âdeadâ anti-weaponization fund, the Epstein files, and the very NYT subpoenas he authorized. Both face unexpectedly narrow paths to confirmation, complicated by the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham. What did we learn from the hearings? And what are each nomineeâs prospects for confirmation?In object lessons, Julia strums to the strifes it seems we canât escape. Eric compliments the coordinated collection of compost. Scott salutes Mr. The Frog and friends who are back on the small screen (and then gets scooped on another Muppet story). And Molly marvels at one of her many military morale patches.
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On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sits down with Liza Goitein and Joseph Nunn of the Liberty and Security Program at the Brennan Center, and Lawfare Senior Editor Loren Voss. They talk about the state laws governing the National Guardâwhat they allow, what they prohibit, and what it means for domestic deployments in the United States. What is the National Guard allowed to do, especially when operating in a hybrid status where the mission is defined by the president but the governor retains command and control? State laws are complex, varied, and sometimes facially unconstitutional.
The Brennan Center recently published a compendium of those state laws at https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/state-and-territorial-laws-governing-national-guard.
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On todayâs episode, Lawfareâs Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Francis Farrell, a front line reporter at the Kyiv Independent, about the Ukrainian presidentâs decision to replace the countryâs Minister of Defense, the mass protests it caused, and how the decision will impact the course of the war.
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On todayâs episode, Lawfareâs Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina talks to Fabian Hoffman, a senior research fellow at the Programme for Ukraine and Full-Spectrum Threats at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, about what it would take for Ukraine to produce Patriot interceptor missiles, if the United States had given it the license to do so.
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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 confirmation hearing for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, subpoenas sent to New York Times reporters, a judicial opinion voiding President Trumpâs settlement with the IRS, and more.
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From August 25, 2023: Earlier this month, there was big trouble in little Marion, Kansas, where an entire police department raided the offices of the Marion County Record, a small, family-owned newspaper about 60 miles north of Wichita, with seven employees and a circulation of about 4,000.
To discuss this alarming violation of press freedom, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Caitlin Vogus, Deputy Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They talked about what motivated the raid, how it went down, and the chilling effect this kind of thing can have on small town newspapers and big media organizations alike. They also discussed what journalistsâfrom lone freelancers to sizable newsroomsâcan do to protect themselves from all manner of press freedom violations.
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From February 3, 2025: Nema Milaninia, a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a current partner at the law firm King & Spalding, joins Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to discuss legislation in the U.S. Congress and recent executive actions taken by the Trump administration to, once again, sanction the International Criminal Court.
Milaninia discusses what is motivating the most recent sanctions campaign, broke down the many criticismsâsome legitimate, some less soâagainst the Court, and explained why sanctions, which are typically reserved for criminal organizations, would benefit no one. He also speaks about how, despite the ICC's best efforts to insulate itself, sanctions pose an existential threat to the institution.
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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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