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.

Lawfare Daily 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. You can find transcripts for select podcasts by visiting the podcast webpage.

Rational Security is a weekly roundtable podcast hosted by Scott R. Anderson with a rotating crew of co-hosts 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.
Scaling Laws explores (and occasionally answers) the questions that keep OpenAI’s policy team up at night, the ones that motivate legislators to host hearings on AI and draft new AI bills, and the ones that are top of mind for tech-savvy law and policy students. Lawfare Senior Editors Alan Rozenshtein and Kevin Frazier dive into the intersection of AI, innovation policy, and the law through regular interviews with the folks deep in the weeds of developing, regulating, and adopting AI.
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.
 “The Regulators” series, co-sponsored with Morrison Foerster, is a podcast series in which Brandon Van Grack and Scott Anderson sit down with the senior officials that are implementing our new era of economic statecraft.
Lawfare Presents: Escalation lays bare the stakes of the Ukraine-Russia War through powerful storytelling and compelling voices. It reveals forgotten promises and fragile alliances that have shaped the U.S.-Ukraine relationship and how the decisions of policymakers in Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow have global consequences.
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.
Allies
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. 
THE REPORT PODCAST LOGO
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.
Chatter was 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. The final episode premiered in December 2024.
Arbiters of Truth was a podcast series on disinformation and misinformation featuring conversations with Quinta Jurecic and Alan Rozenshtein with experts to discuss thorny issues of content moderation, online speech and the erosion of discourse around the world.
livefromukr
#LiveFromUkraine featured 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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