The Lawfare Podcast

Lawfare Daily: Ideological Exclusions and Deportations with Julia Rose Kraut

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On today’s episode, Julia Rose Kraut, author of the book “Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United Stat...

Rational Security: “The More You DOGE” Edition

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower, Tyler McBrien, and Kevin Frazier to talk through the week’s big national security ...

Lawfare Daily: Mikhail Zygar on Putin, the Russia-Ukraine War, and Press Freedom

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode, Mikhail Zygar, a renowned Russian journalist living in exile in the U.S., the author of multiple books on Vladimir Putin, and the ...

Lawfare Daily: Chris Hughes on His New Book, ‘Marketcrafters’

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Hughes, author of “Marketcrafters” and co-founder of the Economic Security Project, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Tex...

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 18

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On April 18 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff an...

Lawfare Archive: 'The President Who Would Not Be King'

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From January 26, 2021: Jack Goldsmith sat down with Michael McConnell, the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and director of the Constitutional La...

Lawfare Archive: The Israeli Judicial System on the Brink

19 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From March 6, 2023: Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany are both Israeli legal scholars and longtime Lawfare contributors. Shany is a professor of...

Lawfare Daily: Trump's Attack on Law Firms

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In recent weeks, President Trump has embarked on a campaign of extortion against law firms, pushing major firms to either reach agreements with the Wh...

Lawfare Daily: Roger Parloff and Anna Bower Talk Abrego Garcia

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On April 15, Judge Paula Xinis held a hearing in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man deported by accident to a notorious prison in El Salvador. ...

Lawfare Daily: Mexican Cartels and American Guns

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Supreme Court recently held oral arguments in the case of Mexico v. Smith & Wesson, a groundbreaking case brought by the government of Me...

Lawfare Daily: Daniel Kokotajlo and Eli Lifland on Their AI 2027 Report

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Kokotajlo, former OpenAI researcher and Executive Director of the AI Futures Project, and Eli Lifland, a researcher with the AI Futures Project...

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 11

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live conversation on April 11, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bo...

Lawfare Archive: The Shadow Docket

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From May 16, 2023: In recent years, the Supreme Court's non-merits “shadow docket” has become a topic of contestation and controversy, especially ...

Lawfare Archive: The Hidden Alliance Between Tech and Government

12 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From March 8, 2024: The practice of surveillance capitalism—the widespread private collection and commodification of personal data—is well underst...

Lawfare Daily: The Golden Dome Missile Defense Program

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Tom Karako, the Director of the Missile Defense Program at CSIS,...

Rational Security: The "Humphrey's Executor's Executor" Edition

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott sat down with co-hosts emeritus Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic and Lawfare's new senior legal fellow James Pearce to talk throu...

Lawfare Daily: What French Politics Means for Europe and the United States

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On today's episode, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett spoke with Tara Varma, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, about the latest in French politics....

Lawfare Daily: Climate Security During the Trump Administration

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey spoke to Director of the Center for Climate Security Erin Sikorsky about the omission of ...

Lawfare Daily: Trump’s New Global Tariffs and the Court Fights to Come, with Peter Harrell and Jennifer Hillman

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Lawfare Contributing Editor Peter Harrell, who was pr...

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 6

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live conversation on April 4, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bow...

Lawfare Archive: Government Use of Open-Source Information

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From January 26, 2024: In front of a live audience at the Knight Foundation's INFORMED conference in Miami, Florida, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief...

Lawfare Archive: Weaponizing the Dollar with Saleha Mohsin

05 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From March 20, 2024: Since World War II, the United States and its currency, the dollar, have come to play a central role in the broader global econom...

Lawfare Daily: Hillary Hartley and David Eaves on 18F, Its Origin, Legacy, and Lesson

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Hillary Hartley, the former Chief Digital Officer of Ontario and former Co-Founder and Deputy Executive Director at 18F, and David Eaves, Associate Pr...

Lawfare Daily: Escalation, Episode One: Chicken Kyiv

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For today’s episode, we’re bringing you the opening episode of our podcast Escalation. Escalation is a multi-part narrative podcast hosted by Lawf...

Rational Security: The “Space Base Oddity” Edition

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott joined his Lawfare colleagues Natalie Orpett and Eric Ciaramella to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:“...

Lawfare Daily: Why Public Health is Critical to National Security

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Atul Gawande is a surgeon and a public health expert. He's also the former head of global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USA...

Lawfare Daily: Adam Thierer on the AI Regulatory Landscape

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow for the Technology & Innovation team at R Street, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the UT Aust...

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

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On March 28, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff, Lawfare ...

Lawfare Archive: War Powers and the Latest U.S. Intervention in Yemen with Brian Finucane, Jack Goldsmith, and Matt Gluck

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From January 30, 2024: U.S. military operations against Houthi rebels in Yemen have escalated rapidly in recent weeks, culminating in a number of majo...

Lawfare Archive: 'National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press'

29 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From April 22, 2021: Jack Goldsmith sat down with Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, and Geoffrey Stone, the Edward H. Levy Distingu...

Lawfare Daily: Israel: Divided at Home and at War Yet Again

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Natan Sachs, the Director of the Middle East Program of the Broo...

Rational Security: The "New Phone, Houthis?" Edition

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Roger Parloff to talk through the week of the most Rational Security-esque o...

Lawfare Daily: Attack Plans Shared on Signal Released by The Atlantic

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live recording on March 26, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Shane Harris of The Atlantic to discuss the decision to re...

Lawfare Daily: Shane Harris Talks ‘Houthi PC Small Group’

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Shane Harris of The Atlantic joins Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk about war planning on Signal, the Trump administration’s remarkab...

Lawfare Daily: Tom Kent on the Dismantling of American Government Broadcasting

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Kent ran Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is a longtime Russia watcher. He talks to Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes about President Tru...

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 21

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On March 21, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff to discuss th...

Lawfare Archive: Charles Dunst on Defeating the Dictators

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From March 21, 2023: By many accounts, the United States is living through a new era of competition—not just between major powers and strategic riva...

Lawfare Archive: El Salvador’s President Cracks Down on Gangs—and Democracy

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From May 9, 2023: Since March 2022, El Salvador has been under a state of exception as its President Nayib Bukele seeks to crack down on the country’...

Lawfare Daily: The U.S. Bombing of Yemen and the Houthi Response

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Gregory Johnsen, a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States I...

Lawfare Daily: Dan Hendrycks on National Security in the Age of Superintelligent AI

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Hendrycks, Director of the Center for AI Safety, joins Kevin Frazier, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the UT Austin School of Law and Contribu...

Rational Security: The “Berry Boy Blue” Edition

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott sat down with Rational Security veterans and Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Molly Reynolds to talk through the week’s big n...

Lawfare Daily: The New Syrian Government and Its Problems

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Steven Heydemann, the Director of the Middle East Studies Progra...

Lawfare Daily: Derek Thompson on Abundance and a New Political Order

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Derek Thompson, a senior editor at The Atlantic and co-author (with Ezra Klein) of Abundance, joins Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor ...

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 14

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live conversation on March 14, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, sat down with assistant professor of law at the University of K...

Lawfare Archive: Yaya Fanusie on 'Central Bank Digital Currencies: The Threat From Money Launderers and How to Stop Them'

16 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From December 15, 2020: Alan Rozenshtein sat down with Yaya Fanusie, a former CIA analyst and an expert on the national security implications of crypt...

Lawfare Archive: Jeff Kosseff on Why the First Amendment Protects False Speech

15 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From October 6, 2023: The First Amendment protects speech, but what kind? True speech, sure. But what about false or misleading speech? What if it's h...

Lawfare Daily: A World Without Caesars

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the Lawfare Podcast features Glen Weyl, economist and author at Microsoft Research; Jacob Mchangama, Executive Director of the Future ...

Lawfare Daily: ‘The Rivalry Peril’ with Van Jackson and Michael Brenes

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On today’s episode, Van Jackson, Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, and Michael Brenes, Associate Director o...

Rational Security: The “Botanical Bros” Edition

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor and co-host emeritus Alan Rozenshtein and Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett to talk through...

Lawfare Daily: Zachary Price on Judging in a Divided Republic

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Goldsmith sits down with Zachary Price, Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco and author of the new book, “Constitutional Symmetry: Judging ...

Lawfare Daily: Carla Reyes and Drew Hinkes on the Evolution and Future of Crypto Policy 

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carla Reyes, Associate Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law, and Drew Hinkes, a Partner at Winston & Strawn with a practice focused on dig...

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 7

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live conversation on March 7, Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett, sat down with associate professor of law at the University of Mi...

Lawfare Archive: Making Sense of the Unprecedented Sanctions on Russia

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From March 1, 2022: Over the past week, the United States and its allies have responded to Russia's military invasion of Ukraine with some unprecedent...

Lawfare Archive: How Much Trouble is NATO Really In? with Scott R. Anderson

08 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From February 26, 2024: At a South Carolina campaign rally on Feb. 10, former President Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters that while he was pres...

Lawfare Daily: "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare," with Edward Fishman

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Daily: The Impoundment Crisis, One Month In

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first weeks of the second Trump administration, the Office of Management and Budget abruptly froze trillions of dollars in federal funds—spar...

Rational Security: The “A Perfect Meeting” Edition

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott was joined by his Lawfare colleagues Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic to work through the week’s big national security news storie...

Lawfare Daily: The State of the Gaza Ceasefire and Related Issues, with Joel Braunold

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For today's episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Joel Braunold, the Managing Director for the S. Daniel ...

Lawfare Daily: Tim Fist and Arnab Datta on the Race to Build AI Infrastructure in America

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Fist, Director of Emerging Technology Policy at the Institute for Future Progress, and Arnab Datta, Director of Infrastructure Policy at IFP and M...

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 28

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live conversation on February 28, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Roge...

Lawfare Archive: The Authoritarian Playbook in 2025

02 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From February 21, 2024: The advocacy group Protect Democracy last month issued an updated version of its report entitled, “The Authoritarian Playboo...

Lawfare Archive: How Ukraine is Changing European Security

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From March 14, 2022: Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine has undermined some of the fundamental assumptions underlying the security of Europe throug...

Lawfare Daily: Dispatches from the Sahel, with Rachel Chason and John Lechner

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On today’s episode, the Washington Post's West Africa bureau chief Rachel Chason and freelance journalist John Lechner join Lawfare Managi...

Lawfare Daily: Trump’s Tariffs and the Law

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Kathleen Claussen, an expert in international economic law and professor ...

Rational Security: The “Leftover Chicken Kyiv” Edition

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott joined his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Natalie Orpett, and Anastasiia Lapatina for a rare, all-in-person discussion of the we...

Lawfare Daily: The Fate of Ukraine

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Feb. 24, Fiona Hill (Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe), Constanze Stelzenmüller, (Director at the Center...

Lawfare Daily: Alexandra Reeve Givens, Courtney Lang, and Nema Milaninia on the Paris AI Summit and the Pivot to AI Security

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alexandra Reeve Givens, CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology; Courtney Lang, Vice President of Policy for Trust, Data, and Technology at I...

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 21

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live conversation on February 21, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Scott A...

Lawfare Archive: A Weaponized World Economy with Henry Farrell and Abe Newman

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From September 20, 2023: Economic warfare isn’t a new concept. Protectionist policies, asymmetrical trade agreements, currency wars—those are just...

Lawfare Archive: Daniel Richman and Sarah Seo on Law Enforcement Federalism

22 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From June 11, 2021: Daniel Richman and Sarah Seo are professors at Columbia Law School, and they are co-authors of a recent article on Lawfare&nb...

Lawfare Daily: DOGE’s Attack on the Treasury Department

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Before January, most Americans had probably never heard of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS), a Treasury Department agency that distrib...

Rational Security: The “These Are the Days that Never End’ Edition

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott sat down with his colleagues Tyler McBrien and Roger Parloff, as well as special guest Claire Meynial, U.S. correspondent for Le...

Lawfare Daily: Guantanamo, Immigration, and the U.S. Military

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Jan. 29, President Trump ordered the expansion of facilities at Guantanamo Bay to hold migrants being deported from the United States. It was the l...

Lawfare Daily: An Update on Ukraine Politics with Eric Ciaramella

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a wild and wooly week in Ukraine politics: Speeches from American officials have not been consistent with each other, American statements ...

Lawfare Daily: Matt Perault on the Little Tech Agenda

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Perault, Head of AI Policy at Andreessen Horowitz, joins Kevin Frazier, Contributing Editor at Lawfare and Adjunct Professor at Delaware Law, to ...

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Feb. 14

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live conversation on February 14, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Sc...

Lawfare Archive: Zack Beauchamp on the American Right’s Embrace of the Hungarian Regime of Viktor Orbán

16 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From August 18, 2021: Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson, whose nightly news show on Fox has become the most popular show in U.S. cable news history, ...

Lawfare Archive: David Rohde on the Supposed "Deep State"

15 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From July 14, 2020: In a 2018 poll, 74 percent of Americans said they believed that some group of unelected government and military officials was defi...

Lawfare Daily: Russia’s Shadow War in the Baltic Sea 

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the last two years, there have been at least four incidents of damaged underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. Be it Russian deliberate sabota...

Lawfare Daily: Are the Courts Ready for a Trump Presidency?

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Only a few weeks have passed since inauguration, but President Trump's barrage of executive orders has already generated dozens of legal challeng...

Rational Security: “The General Mattis of the NFL” Edition

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare teammates Tyler McBrien and Nastya Lapatina and Lawfare friend Joel Braunold, Mana...

Lawfare Daily: Jack Goldsmith on Trump v. United States and Executive Power

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Goldsmith, the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School and co-founder of Lawfare, joins Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the ...

Lawfare Daily: Chris Miller and Marshall Kosloff on the Abundance Agenda’s Implications for National Security

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Miller, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and Marshall ...

Lawfare Daily: Discussing Litigation Against Trump Administration Actions

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live conversation on February 7, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta J...

Lawfare Archive: The PEPFAR Reauthorization Battle, with Emily Bass

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From August 22, 2023: In 2003, President Bush created the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, and in the twenty years since, the ...

Lawfare Archive: Trade War Powers: Past, Present and Future

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From August 31, 2020: Earlier this month, the Trump administration re-imposed tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada, signaling a new salvo in the no...

Lawfare Daily: Nayna Gupta on the Laken Riley Act

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On today’s podcast, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey spoke to Nayna Gupta, Director of Policy at the American Immig...

Lawfare Daily: Understanding the War in Sudan

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and Georgetown professor Daniel Byman sits down with Holly Berkley Fletcher, a former Senior Africa Analyst at the Centr...

Rational Security: The "Law and Order: Executive Victims Unit" Edition

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Molly Reynolds, and Anna Bower to talk through another big week of national sec...

Lawfare Daily: The Legality of OPM's "Deferred Resignations”

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Jan. 28, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent out an email offering a “deferred resignation program” to over 2 million federal employe...

Lawfare Daily: What Is Happening with USAID?

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode is a recording of Feb. 3 livestream that Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson hosted with George Ingram and Tony Pipa, both Senior Fellow...

Lawfare Daily: Should the U.S. Sanction the ICC, with Nema Milaninia

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nema Milaninia, a former prosecutor at the International Criminal Court and International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and a current pa...

Lawfare Archive: Sejal Zota on ICE Tracking Technologies

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From May 9, 2022: Many individuals seeking asylum or other forms of immigration relief in the U.S. are subject to a program run by Immigration Customs...

Lawfare Daily: Discussing the Kennedy, Patel, and Gabbard Confirmation Hearings

01 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live conversation on January 30, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta J...

Lawfare Daily: How the Trump Administration is Using the Military to Enforce Its New Immigration Policies

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Chris Mirasola, an assistant professor at the Univers...

Lawfare Daily: Understanding the Impoundment Crisis

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the Office of Management and Budget announced a breathtakingly broad freeze on federal funds—before scrambling to clarify that freeze and...

Rational Security: The “Don’t Cry for Me, Lawfare” Edition

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Scott was joined by his colleagues Kevin and Eugenia—in what is sadly her last episode before leaving Lawfare—as well as special guest ...

Lawfare Daily: Peter Hyun on the Tech Supply Chain and National Security

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Hyun, then-Acting Chief of the Enforcement Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission, discusses with Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sh...

Lawfare Daily: Nick Bednar on Trump's Civil Service Executive Orders

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Z. Rozenshtein speaks with his University of Minnesota Law colleague, Nick Bednar, about the wave of ...

Lawfare Daily: Discussing President Trump’s First Batch of Executive Orders

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a live conversation on January 23, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke to Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, A...