The Role of the Pardon Attorney
Jack Goldsmith sat down with Margaret Love, the United States Pardon Attorney in the Justice Department from 1990 to 1997. They discussed Donald Trump's very controversial pattern of pardons and commu...
5 Jan 202139min
Dr. Geoffrey Gresh on 'To Rule Eurasia's Waves'
Alexander Vindman sat down with Dr. Geoffrey Gresh to discuss his new book, "To Rule Eurasia's Waves: The New Great Power Competition at Sea." Dr. Gresh is a professor of International Security Studie...
4 Jan 202147min
Bye Bye, 2020
It is the last podcast of the year, and we are giving 2020 an appropriate send-off. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare executive editor Susan Hennessey, managing editor Quinta Jurecic, senior edito...
30 Dec 202052min
Bob Bauer on the White House Counsel in an Antidemocratic Moment
Bob Bauer is a former White House counsel, and he has been leading the legal response for the Biden campaign and transition to the unprecedented onslaught of efforts on the part of the president to ov...
29 Dec 202037min
Ask Us Anything
It's the end of the year, and that means we opened the phones for the annual "Ask Us Anything" edition. You called in with your questions, which we routed to Lawfare contributors for their answers. Be...
28 Dec 202057min
Conflict in Ethiopia
It’s not something that has gotten a lot of attention amid a busy U.S. news cycle, but much has been happening in Ethiopia over the past two months. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who just last year won t...
23 Dec 202054min
Jane Bambauer and Brian Ray on the Lost Promise of Digital Contact Tracing
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital technology was touted as a potential savior. In particular, there was a burst of enthusiasm around so-called digital contact tracing apps, which w...
22 Dec 202038min
Government Agencies that Really Listen To You: SIGINT in the UK
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has been conducting and regulating signals intelligence, SIGINT, since before the United States was born. To talk about how they do it across t...
21 Dec 20201h 3min
