Podcasts

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. Produced in cooperation with the Brookings Institution.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Arbiters of Truth is 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.

#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.

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.