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The Lawfare Podcast: Brian Greer on Silent Witnesses

The indictment filed last week against former President Donald Trump involves hundreds of classified documents, and the first 31 charges involve mishandling individual classified documents....

The Lawfare Podcast: Justin Sherman on Regulating the Data Broker Industry

The data broker industry and its role in the digital economy is under scrutiny from Congress. Lawfare Senior Editor Stephanie Pell sat down with Justin...

Rational Security: The 'Air Quality Fuchsia' Edition

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott braved the haze to talk through the week’s (very) big national security news stories, including: “Downstream Effects.” The destruction...

The Lawfare Podcast: Dam Breaks and Pipeline Bombings

A large dam on the Dnipro River has been destroyed, causing massive flooding and a dangerous environmental catastrophe in southern Ukraine. The Ukrainians are blaming...

The Lawfare Podcast: How is Lula Doing? 

On January 1, 2023, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as president of Brazil. A week later, insurrectionists in Brazil stormed government buildings,...

The Lawfare Podcast: Catching up with Jack Smith's Mar-A-Lago Investigation

On May 31, CNN reported that federal prosecutors investigating the unlawful removal of classified documents from the White House to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence have...

The Lawfare Podcast: Gabe Rottman on the Justice Department's New Guidelines on Press Subpoenas

It’s been about six months since the Attorney General issued new guidelines on compulsory process to members of the press in criminal and national security...

The Lawfare Podcast: Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet

It is often said that “Russia is a country with an unpredictable past.” Such distortions of history can lead to trouble, as the world witnessed...

Rational Security: The 'Pun Moll' Edition

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by their Brookings and Lawfare colleague Molly Reynolds to talk all things Congress in the week’s national...

The Lawfare Podcast: The Wagner Group, Bakhmut, and a New Phase in the Ukraine War

The war in Ukraine is approaching a pivotal moment. Russia remains in control of the hotly contested city of Bakhmut. But the ruthlessly effective mercenary...

The Lawfare Podcast: Erdoğan Wins Reelection in Turkey

On Sunday, May 28, Turkey held a bitterly contested run-off election, with incumbent presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan winning reelection against opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu....

The Lawfare Podcast: Tim Mak on The Counteroffensive

Tim Mak was an NPR reporter in Kyiv since the beginning of the full-scale invasion last year. He recently stepped down and started his own...