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The Lawfare Podcast: Caroline Rose on Syria’s Role in the Captagon Trade

Syria’s decade-long civil war has left the state and economy shells of their former selves. But a new industry is stepping in to fill the…

The Lawfare Podcast: Bart Gellman on Trump's Next Coup

Barton Gellman is a long-time national security reporter for the Washington Post, for The Atlantic and elsewhere. His latest article and Atlantic cover story is…

The Lawfare Podcast: Uncovering a Secret U.S. Airstrike in Syria

On March 18, 2019, the U.S. conducted an airstrike in Baghuz, Syria, as part of its battle against the Islamic State. Two bombs were dropped…

The Lawfare Podcast: Content Moderation’s Original ‘Decider’

We talk a lot about how content moderation involves a lot of hard decisions and trade-offs—but at the end of the day, someone has to…

Rational Security 2.0: The ‘Bad Vlad’ Edition

This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare contributor and University of Kentucky law professor Jonathan Shaub! They sat down to discuss the week’s national security…

The Lawfare Podcast: Making Sense of the Crisis in Ethiopia

For the past year, the country of Ethiopia has been embroiled in a brutal civil war. At the center of it is Tigray, a region…

The Lawfare Podcast: COVID and Intelligence with Eric Swalwell, Julie Gerberding and Matt Berrett

COVID-19 has shown us all that pandemics aren’t just a public health issue, but a national security one as well. Are America’s national security institutions prepared…

The Lawfare Podcast: Trouble Brewing in Ukraine

It’s a scary time along the Ukrainian-Russian border these days. Russian troops are amassing in alarming numbers, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared recently that…

The Lawfare Podcast: Orin Kerr and Asaf Lubin on Apple v. NSO Group

Late last month, Apple sued the Israeli technology firm NSO Group under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That’s the federal law that criminalizes computer…

The Lawfare Podcast: How Zoom Thinks About Content Moderation

This week on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with some of the people behind…