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The Lawfare Podcast: The Fall of the Soviet Union, with Vladislav Zubok

This past weekend marked the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. To discuss the collapse and its implications, Bryce Klehm sat down…

The Lawfare Podcast: Working Toward Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation

In 2018, a group of academics and free expression advocates convened in Santa Clara, California, for a workshop. They emerged with the Santa Clara Principles…

Rational Security 2.0: The ‘Party at Nakatomi Plaza’ Edition

This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined by military law expert and Lawfare contributor Michel Paradis! They sat down to discuss the week’s national security news, including:…

The Lawfare Podcast: The JFK Assassination Documents, with Gerald Posner and Mark Zaid

President Biden recently authorized the release of almost 1,500 documents related to the JFK assassination. But ten times that number still have had their release…

The Lawfare Podcast: Merrick Garland, Ed Levi and the Power of Speech

Merrick Garland has been getting a lot of criticism these days, and a lot of it is less than entirely fair, or at least it’s…

The Lawfare Podcast: The Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History, with Aki Peritz

In 2006, al-Qaeda-trained operatives planned and nearly executed an operation to destroy passenger aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean. Because it was discovered and stopped, it…

The Lawfare Podcast: Peng Shuai

On November 2, the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai publicly accused on social media a former vice-premier of China of sexual assault. Chinese authorities responded…

The Lawfare Podcast: Free the Data!

On this show, we’ve discussed no end of proposals for how to regulate online platforms. But there’s something many of those proposals are missing: data…

Rational Security 2.0: The 'Whole Damn System is Out of Order' Edition

This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined by their fellow Lawfare senior editor and Brookings Institution fellow Molly Reynolds! They sat down to discuss the week’s national…

The Lawfare Podcast: The D.C. Circuit Rejects Trump

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last week issued a surprisingly under-discussed opinion in the case of Trump v. Thompson, which involves the production of…