June Minipod: Can the Department of Justice Be Fixed?

Lawfare Archive: Exploding Pagers and Air Strikes

From September 24, 2024: Israel and Hezbollah seem to be headed for a major war. Over the past several weeks, Israel has taken a series of escalatory steps along its northern border, targeting major Hezbollah figures, blowing up pagers used by thousands of Hezbollah operatives, and—most recently—hitting targets all over southern Lebanon associated with Hezbollah. Will it lead to all-out war?  Lawfare’s Editor-in-Chief, Benjamin Wittes, sat down with Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman to talk over the latest developments between Israel and its most capable military foe. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Lawfare Daily: What the Supreme Court Said About the President's Power Over Independent Agencies

On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett talks with Nick Bednar, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and a contributing editor at Lawfare. They talk about two Supreme Court cases issued last week that will have a huge impact on the president's authority over agencies that Congress set up to be independent. In Slaughter v. Trump, the Court held that the president has the power to remove members of independent agencies who had previously been understood to have employment protections that forbade the president from firing them. In Cook v. Trump, the Court carved out a special exception to that rule for the Federal Reserve. They discuss Nick's recent article [https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/slaughter-s-silence] for Lawfare, what the opinions say, what they fail to say, and what it means for the workforce that makes the federal government function. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Lawfare Daily: Trump's Cuba Problem

Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Professor Javier Corrales, Dwight W. Morrow 1895 Professor of Political Science and Department Chair of Political Science at Amherst College, to discuss the Trump administration's efforts to pressure Cuba and support regime change there. They discuss why the Cuban regime stays in power, the effectiveness of different U.S. policy instruments used against Cuba, why Professor Corrales thinks that the Venezuela approach probably would not work in Cuba, and what a post-communist Cuba might look like. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Lawfare Daily: ‘The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI’—A Conversation with Cory Doctorow

On this episode of Lawfare Daily, Senior Editor Kate Klonick and Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein speak with Cory Doctorow—science fiction author, activist, journalist, adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the writer who coined "enshittification [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/]"—about his new book, “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374621575/thereversecentaursguidetolifeafterai/].” Doctorow argues that the most important thing about the AI boom isn't what the technology can or can't do, but the historic investment bubble and the new arrangements of work being built on top of it—the same analytic lens he brought to platform decay, now turned on AI. They discuss whether the AI bubble will actually burst or merely deflate, and the unit economics underneath it; the "reverse centaur," the worker conscripted to serve the machine; and how it maps onto a broader culture and questions of AI "knowledge collapse," the human analogue to AI model collapse. Additional Resources: * Cory Doctorow's daily newsletter, Pluralistic [https://pluralistic.net]  * Ed Zitron, "The Hater's Guide to the AI Bubble [https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/]," (Where's Your Ed At, 2025) * Andrew J. Peterson, "AI and the Problem of Knowledge Collapse [https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03502]" (arXiv, 2024) * Benjamin Recht, “The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us [https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691272443/the-irrational-decision]” (Princeton University Press, 2026) ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

June Minipod: Can the Department of Justice Be Fixed?

On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Senior Editor Michael Feinberg about whether and how a future administration could repair the Department of Justice. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.