Lawfare Daily: Resisting Democratic Backsliding
In recent years, political scientists have given a great deal of attention to “democratic backsliding”—the slow erosion of democracy by aspiring authoritarians. The events of the last several months i...
8 Maj 202549min
Rational Security: The “Shaving Face” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin “The Beard” Wittes and Anastasiia (and Ava) Lapatina to discuss the week’s biggest national security news stories, including:“A Waltz on ...
7 Maj 20251h 6min
Lawfare Daily: Alexis Loeb on Kleptocracy and National Security
In her recent Lawfare article, Alexis Loeb—a former deputy chief of the Jan. 6 Capitol Siege Section at the U.S. Department of Justice and a current partner at Farella, Braun, and Martel—discussed Att...
7 Maj 202545min
Lawfare Daily: Digital Forgeries, Real Felonies: Inside the TAKE IT DOWN Act
The TAKE IT DOWN Act is the first major U.S. federal law to squarely target non‑consensual intimate imagery (NCII) and to include a component requiring tech companies to act. Long handled via a patchw...
6 Maj 202547min
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, May 2
In a live conversation on May 2, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Scott Anderson, and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce to dis...
5 Maj 20251h 36min
Lawfare Archive: Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy
From July 27, 2020: Anne Applebaum is a columnist, writer, historian and most recently, the author of "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lore of Authoritarianism," a book that explores why authorit...
4 Maj 202539min
Lawfare Archive: Greg Johnsen and Scott Anderson on the Fight Against the Houthis
From January 16, 2024: Over the last two months, Houthi militants have waged more than 27 attacks against merchant shipping and U.S. and partner forces in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Bab al...
3 Maj 202550min
Lawfare Daily: Social Security, the ‘Death Master File,’ and Immigration Enforcement
As the Trump administration seeks to escalate its immigration crackdown, the government has turned to a concerning source of information for data on immigrants: the Social Security Administration. Rep...
2 Maj 202551min
