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The Lawfare Podcast: Roger Parloff on the Oath Keeper Sentences

Thursday was sentencing day for some senior Oath Keepers, and Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff spent the day in court listening to and watching the...

Rational Security: The 'Alan is One Year Closer to Death' Edition

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were reunited to celebrate Alan’s gradual physical and mental decline, and to talk over the week in national security...

The Lawfare Podcast: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a bomb built by Timothy McVeigh exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown...

The Lawfare Podcast: The Big Internet Case That Wasn't

The Supreme Court last week issued the biggest opinion in the history of the internet—except that it didn’t. Rather, it issued an opinion in a...

The Lawfare Podcast: The Dark History of the Information Age

Hacking and cybersecurity are evergreen issues, in the news and on Lawfare. Scott Shapiro, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy...

The Lawfare Podcast: Patrick Weil on ‘The Madman in the White House’

In November 1919, President Woodrow Wilson came out in opposition to a compromise that would have resulted in Senate ratification of the Versailles Treaty and...

The Lawfare Podcast: Alex Iftimie on DOJ’s Recent Cyber Disruption Efforts

Over the past two weeks, the Department of Justice has issued two press releases announcing disruption efforts it has taken against malicious cyber actors. One...

Rational Security: The 'Low Down Dirty Shane' Edition

This week, Alan and Scott were joined by co-host emeritus (and Washington Post star reporter) Shane Harris to talk over the week’s news! Including: “Flight...

The Lawfare Podcast: Crack-Up Capitalism with Quinn Slobodian

Think about the world. You might be picturing a globe in a classroom, with its patchwork of multi-colored nations. Or perhaps you have an image...

The Lawfare Podcast: Inside the Capitol Police’s Intelligence Dysfunction

The House’s select committee on Jan. 6 may have wound down its work at the end of December 2022, but questions about why law enforcement,...

The Lawfare Podcast: The Shadow Docket

In recent years, the Supreme Court’s non-merits “shadow docket” has become a topic of contestation and controversy, especially the Court’s emergency orders rulings on issues...

The Lawfare Podcast: The Law of the Sea in the Age of Climate Change

Though the threat of climate change has come sharply into focus in recent decades, humans have long endeavored to shape and reshape the natural world,...