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.
Latest in Podcasts
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Lawfare Daily: Nayna Gupta on the Laken Riley Act
What is in the Laken Riley Act? -
Lawfare Daily: Understanding the War in Sudan
How is the international community addressing the civil war in Sudan? -
Rational Security: The "Law and Order: Executive Victims Unit" Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Molly Reynolds, and Anna Bower talked through the big week of national security news.

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. Produced in cooperation with the Brookings Institution.
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Lawfare Daily: Nayna Gupta on the Laken Riley Act
What is in the Laken Riley Act? -
Lawfare Daily: Understanding the War in Sudan
How is the international community addressing the civil war in Sudan? -
Lawfare Daily: The Legality of OPM's "Deferred Resignations”
Discussing the "Fork in the Road" email.

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.
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Rational Security: The "Law and Order: Executive Victims Unit" Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Molly Reynolds, and Anna Bower talked through the big week of national security news. -
Rational Security: The “Don’t Cry for Me, Lawfare” Edition
Scott Anderson, Kevin Frazier, Eugenia Lostri, and special guest Peter Harrell dived deep into the week’s national security news. -
Rational Security: “The Next First Day of the Rest of Our Lives” Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, and Alan Rozenshtein talked through the week’s big—and we mean BIG—national security news

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.
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Chatter: Closing the Chatterbox, with Shane Harris and David Priess
Reflecting on the Chatter podcast. -
Chatter: Intelligence Analysis, Intuition, and Precognition, with Carmen Medina
What is precognition? -
Chatter: The Legacy of “The Hunt for Red October” with Katherine Voyles
What has been "The Hunt for Red October's" cultural influence?

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.
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The End of ‘The Aftermath’
Season 2 of our narrative series on Jan. 6 has come to a close. But the search for accountability is far from over. -
The Aftermath: The Hidden Insurrection
Episode 4 of The Aftermath examines the Jan. 3, 2021 attempted takeover of the Justice Department and its lasting impact. -
The Aftermath: #StormTheCapitol
Episode 3 of The Aftermath looks at how Trump and his supporters used social media to orchestrate Jan. 6—and how social media companies failed to stop them.
“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.
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Lawfare Daily: The Proposed New FARA Regulations, with DOJ Official Jennifer Gellie
What will the new FARA regulations do? -
Lawfare Daily: The New Program to Protect Americans' Bulk Data from Foreign Exploitation, with DOJ's Devin DeBacker
Listen to a new episode in "The Regulators." -
Lawfare Daily: How the FCC is Tackling National Security with Enforcement Bureau Chief Loyaan Egal
Discussing the FCC’s growing role in U.S. national security.

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.
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The Lawfare Podcast: Matt Perault, Ramya Krishnan, and Alan Rozenshtein Talk About the TikTok Divestment and Ban Bill
What will the impact be of the TikTok divestment bill passed by the House of Representatives? -
The Lawfare Podcast: Jawboning at the Supreme Court
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The Lawfare Podcast: How Are the TikTok Bans Holding Up in Court?
What should we make of the ruling that found that the Montana law banning TikTok likely violated the First Amendment?

#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.
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#LiveFromUkraine: Svitlana Khytrenko: "Russia Delenda Est"
Svitlana Khytrenko (@s_khytrenko) is a Ukrainian student who has lived in Germany and Poland since escaping Kyiv back in March. She sat down with Benjamin Wittes on #LiveFromUkraine to talk about her experienc... -
#LiveFromUkraine: Oleksandra Povoroznik Talks Language Politics and Wartime Culture
Oleksandra Povoroznik is a Kyiv-based journalist, film critic and translator, who joins us to discuss the changing politics of language in Ukraine, as well as the country's defiant wartime culture and humor. -
#LiveFromUkraine: Vitalii Ovcharenko Talks About Fighting for Ukraine in the Field

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.
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America’s Allies and the War in Afghanistan
The story of the Special Immigrant Visa program for Afghan translators reflects the U.S. government’s ambivalence toward its allies in Afghanistan. -
Allies: How Did the U.S. Leave So Many of Its Local Allies in Afghanistan?
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Introducing Allies: A Podcast Series from Lawfare and Goat Rodeo
Today, Lawfare and Goat Rodeo released the first two episodes of Allies, a podcast series that traces the U.S.’s efforts to protect Afghan interpreters, translators and other partners.

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.
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The Report, Episode Thirteen: Pardons On The Table
Today, we released the thirteenth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which recounts the story Robert Mueller lays out in his 448-page report. -
The Report, Episode Twelve: It Will Never Get Out
Today, we released the twelfth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which recounts the story Robert Mueller lays out in his 448-page report. -
The Report, Episode Four: A Tale of Two Trump Towers
The story of the ill-starred effort to build a Trump-branded skyscraper in Moscow and the Trump campaign’s meeting in New York with Russians promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.