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The Lawfare Podcast: A Digital Contact Tracing Retrospective

It’s been more than a year since the first contact tracing and exposure notification apps for the novel coronavirus have appeared, and the apps have…

The Lawfare Podcast: Ryan Hass on the U.S.-China Relationship

Bryce Klehm sat down with Ryan Hass, a senior fellow and the Michael H. Armacost Chair in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution….

The Lawfare Podcast: India v. Platforms

Tensions between major social media platforms and the Indian government have reached a new high. In recent months, India has demanded that Twitter remove a…

Rational Security: The 'Where’s the Beef?' Edition

Violence escalates in Afghanistan as U.S. troops withdraw. President Biden directs intelligence agencies to look for more evidence that a lab leak may have started…

The Lawfare Podcast: Natan Sachs on the Possibility of a Post-Bibi Israel

After two years of political tumult and no fewer than four national elections, Israel may finally be on the verge of forming a new government—one…

The Lawfare Podcast: An Investigations Roundup

It’s been a crazy time for Trump investigations. There is a new one in the Eastern District of New York, a grand jury in Manhattan…

The Lawfare Podcast: Rashawn Ray on a Year of Police Reform

It’s been a year since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and there have been a lot of police reform efforts since then. A…

The Lawfare Podcast: A State-Sponsored Skyjacking

Over the weekend, an airplane from an Irish airline flying from Athens to Vilnius, Lithuania, was forced down in Belarus so that Belarusian authorities could…

The Lawfare Podcast: Chesney and Herr on the Biden Executive Order

President Biden has issued an executive order on cybersecurity. Bobby Chesney, one of the founders of Lawfare and a professor at the University of Texas…

The Lawfare Podcast: Noreen Malone on Slow Burn and the Road to War in Iraq

Eighteen years have passed since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq deposed the despotic regime of Saddam Hussein and ushered in a bloody new chapter in…