Lawfare AMA 2020
To kick off this year of The Lawfare Podcast, we wanted to hear from you. You tweeted your questions and you left us voicemails, and we did our best to answer you. Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, Bo...
8 Jan 20201h 25min
Special Edition: Law and the Soleimani Strike
On Friday, the Lawfare Podcast hosted a conversation on the wide-ranging policy implications of the U.S. strike that killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps leader Qassem Soleimani and militi...
6 Jan 20201h 2min
Special Edition: The Soleimani Strike and Its Fallout
The American drone strike last night that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, is a seismic event in U.S.-Iranian relations—and for the broader Middle East. We put togethe...
3 Jan 202055min
Upheaval and Repression in Iran
Iran is in turmoil. Protests erupted across the country last month, sparked by the government's decision to triple the price of gasoline. The Iranian government has responded with brute force, imposin...
1 Jan 20201h 16min
Danielle Citron on Feminism and National Security
Live from the #NatSecGirlSquad Conference in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2019, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Danielle Citron, professor of law at Boston University, VP of the Cyber Civil Rights In...
28 Dec 201943min
What's Next for Impeachment
On Thursday, December 19, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Before that vote, the Brookings Institution's Governance ...
24 Dec 20191h 19min
Amanda Sloat on Boris Johnson and Brexit
This week, following a resounding victory by Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party in British elections, Members of Parliament have backed Johnson’s plan to withdraw from the EU by January 31. But ...
21 Dec 201936min
Peter Pomerantsev on the War Against Reality
In this episode of our Arbiters of Truth series, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Peter Pomerantsev, a research fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the autho...
19 Dec 201941min
