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The Lawfare Podcast: China’s Perfect Police State in Xinjiang

Bryce Klehm spoke with Geoffrey Cain, an investigative journalist and the author of the new book, “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s…

The Lawfare Podcast: Tom Nichols on ‘Our Own Worst Enemy’

All across the world, citizens of liberal democracies are justifying their rejection of democratic norms and traditions as a protest against a cast of elite…

The Lawfare Podcast: The State of the Kabul Airlift

The city of Kabul’s international airport has become the unlikely focal point of an unprecedented humanitarian effort as U.S. soldiers and diplomats seek to maintain…

The Lawfare Podcast: Facebook Shuts Down Research On Itself

In October 2020, Facebook sent a cease and desist letter to two New York University researchers collecting data on the ads Facebook hosts on its…

The Lawfare Podcast: Zack Beauchamp on the American Right’s Embrace of the Hungarian Regime of Viktor Orbán

Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson, whose nightly news show on Fox has become the most popular show in U.S. cable news history, traveled to Budapest…

The Lawfare Podcast: After the Fall in Afghanistan

This past Sunday, Americans woke up to a new reality in the country of Afghanistan—the Afghan government that the United States and its allies have…

The Lawfare Podcast: How Can Congress Take on the Ransomware Problem?

The United States government has been wrestling with what to do about a particular type of cyber threat—ransomware—that holds a victim’s data and computer systems…

The Lawfare Podcast: Mayank Varia and Riana Pfefferkorn on Apple's Decision to Scan for Child Exploitation Material

Two of the biggest controversies in tech are how to stop the spread of child pornography and other exploitation material, and whether encryption prevents legitimate…

The Lawfare Podcast: With Disinformation, The Past Isn’t Past

We live in the Disinformation Age. The internet has revolutionized our information ecosystem and caused disruption totally unprecedented in human history, and democracy may not…

The Lawfare Podcast: A Moratorium Fiasco

You’ve probably heard about the craziness around the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium. They consulted outside law professors instead of the Justice Department. Or did…