Best Asaf Podcasts (2025)

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Lawfare Archive: David Pozen on ‘The Constitution of the War on Drugs’ 55:26

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From May 10, 2024: David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book, “The Constitution of the War on Drugs,” which examines the relationship between the Constitution and drug prohibitions. He joined Jack Goldsmith to talk about the constitutional history of the war on drugs and why the…

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Lawfare Archive: The Supreme Court Rules in Murthy v. Missouri 43:28

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From June 28, 2024: On June 26, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Murthy v. Missouri—the “jawboning” case, concerning a First Amendment challenge to the government practice of pressuring social media companies to moderate content on their platforms. But instead of providing a clear answer one way or the other, the Court tossed out the c…

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Philadelphia Eagles Game Preview! Are The Eagles In Trouble Against The Tampa Bay Buccaneers? 18:50

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🔗 Listen, Subscribe, Review The Riding the Bench Eagles Podcast on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riding-the-bench-podkast/id1432152194?uo=4 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaPn3WurtqbztDdPZaePl 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-riding-the-bench-eagle-141224777/ 📱 Follow us on Instagram: h…

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Lawfare Daily: Rethinking Deepfake Response with Gavin Wilde 36:13

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Gavin Wilde, Nonresident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and author of the recent paper, “Pyrite or Panic? Deepfakes, Knowledge and the Institutional Backstop,” joins Lawfare’s Justin Sherman to discuss worries about deepfakes and their impact on information and society, the hi…

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Rational Security: The “I AM an Object Lesson” Edition 1:13:04

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This week, Scott sat down with Senior Editors Kate Klonick and Eric Columbus to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including: “An Un-Airing of Grievances.” Since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, some supporters of his—including several figures within the Trump administration—have actively sought to h…

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Scaling Laws: AI and Young Minds: Navigating Mental Health Risks with Renée DiResta and Jess Miers 59:50

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Alan Rozenshtein, Lawfare Senior Editor and Research Director; Renée DiResta, Lawfare Contributing Editor; and Jess Miers, visiting assistant professor of Law at the University of Akron School of Law, discuss the distinct risks that generative AI systems pose to children, particularly in relation to mental health. They explore the balance between t…

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Philadelphia Eagles Should AVOID Chauncey Gardner Johnson! 13:33

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🔗 Listen, Subscribe, Review The Riding the Bench Eagles Podcast on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riding-the-bench-podkast/id1432152194?uo=4 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaPn3WurtqbztDdPZaePl 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-riding-the-bench-eagle-141224777/ 📱 Follow us on Instagram: h…

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Lawfare Daily: Analyzing the Administration's New Counterdrug Approach 52:37

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Loren Voss, Public Service Fellow at Lawfare, sits down with Dan Byman, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and the Director of the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Ryan Berg, Director of the Americas Program and Head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative also at CSIS; and Lawfare Se…

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Lawfare Daily: What’s Behind Russian Incursions Into NATO 1:01:35

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In this episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Minna Ålander, an associate fellow at Chatham House Europe Program, and Mykhailo Soldatenko, a scholar of international law and a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School, to discuss Russia’s recent air incursions into Poland and Estonia, and whether NATO’s response to it …

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Philadelphia Eagles Offense EXPLODES vs LA Rams! AJ Brown Has Arrived! 19:13

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🔗 Listen, Subscribe, Review The Riding the Bench Eagles Podcast on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riding-the-bench-podkast/id1432152194?uo=4 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaPn3WurtqbztDdPZaePl 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-riding-the-bench-eagle-141224777/ 📱 Follow us on Instagram: h…

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Sept. 18 1:34:22

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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff to discuss Kash Patel’s testimony in front of Congress, a preliminary injunction preventing the Trump administration from deporting some Guatemalan children, updates in Fed. Governor Lisa Cook’…

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Lawfare Archive: Jane Bambauer, Ramya Krishnan, and Alan Rozenshtein on the Constitutionality of the TikTok Bill 42:55

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From September 18, 2024: Jane Bambauer, Professor at Levin College of Law; Ramya Krishnan, Senior Staff Attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School; Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, join Kevin Frazier, Assistant Pr…

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Lawfare Archive: The Past, Present, and Future of War Powers with Brian Finucane and Matt Waxman 1:01:34

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From September 12, 2024: Without new congressional authorization for its post-Oct. 7 operations in the Middle East, the Biden administration has sought to legally justify its military activities in the region based on the president’s constitutional authority and the application of existing statutory authorities to operations against new adversaries…

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Philadelphia Eagles vs Rams Game Preview: Key X-Factors! 21:02

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🔗 Listen, Subscribe, Review The Riding the Bench Eagles Podcast on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riding-the-bench-podkast/id1432152194?uo=4 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaPn3WurtqbztDdPZaePl 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-riding-the-bench-eagle-141224777/ 📱 Follow us on Instagram: h…

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Scaling Laws: AI Copyright Lawsuits with Pam Samuelson 1:00:07

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On today's Scaling Laws episode, Lawfare Senior Editor and Research Director Alan Rozenshtein sits down with Pam Samuelson, the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, to discuss the rapidly evolving legal landscape at the intersection of generative AI and copyright law. They dive …

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Ep. 176 Teaching Tomorrow’s Family Doctors: Residency, Resilience, and New Models of Care w/ Dr. Makandall Saint Eloi, Dr. Christian Widder and Dr. Farah Shaukat 26:01

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We’re discussing Teaching Tomorrow’s Family Doctors: Residency, Resilience, and New Models of Care! Faisel and Dan are joined by Dr. Makandall Saint Eloi, Dr. Christian Widder and Dr. Farah Shaukat. Our conversation revolves around training the next generation of doctors, implementing new models of care, and identifying practical applications of AI…

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Choose Don't Cruise - Parshas Nitzavim - Ep. 401 10:22

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Why does Hashem need to explicitly tell us to choose life over death and good over evil in Parshas Nitzavim? Isn't the right choice obvious? And why does the Midrash describe this divine instruction as 'lifnim mishuras hadin' - beyond the call of duty? This week's Torah podcast explores a profound distinction between 'keeping' mitzvos versus simply…

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Lawfare Daily: A Trip Through Pennsylvania’s Nascent AI Data Center Industry 44:22

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On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with with Maia Woluchem, the Director of Data & Society’s Trustworthy Infrastructures program, along with one of the program’s researchers, Livia Garofalo, and Joan Mukogosi, an affiliate with the program and a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics. They discuss their rec…

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Philadelphia Eagles Offense Is PUTRID! Is It Kevin Patullo's Fault?! 31:35

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🔗 Listen, Subscribe, Review The Riding the Bench Eagles Podcast on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riding-the-bench-podkast/id1432152194?uo=4 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaPn3WurtqbztDdPZaePl 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-riding-the-bench-eagle-141224777/ 📱 Follow us on Instagram: h…

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Rational Security: The “Ten Years, Still Off-Key” Edition 1:46:52

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For this week's very special episode on Rational Security's 10th anniversary, Scott sat down with a slew of co-hosts emeritus, each of whom brought their own topic to discuss. Shane Harris flagged the connections between online radicalization and the young men behind many recent public acts of gun violence, including the alleged perpetrator of the …

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Lawfare Daily: What Israel's Gaza City Offensive and Airstrikes in Qatar Mean for the Region 1:06:44

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For today's episode, Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Dan Byman, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; and Natan Sachs, Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, to discuss several recent developments in the Israel-…

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Lawfare Daily: The Litigation Challenging Pres. Trump's Alien Enemies Act, with Lee Gelernt 48:26

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Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, speaks to Senior Editor Roger Parloff about the cases he has led challenging the validity of Pres. Trump's Alien Enemies Act Proclamation. They discuss the ACLU's recent victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the status of the group's original case, in Wa…

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Philadelphia Eagles Win UGLY Game vs Chiefs! Is Kevin Patullo A Problem As Playcaller? 21:03

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🔗 Listen, Subscribe, Review The Riding the Bench Eagles Podcast on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riding-the-bench-podkast/id1432152194?uo=4 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaPn3WurtqbztDdPZaePl 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-riding-the-bench-eagle-141224777/ 📱 Follow us on Instagram: h…

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Sept. 12 1:43:28

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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Michael Feinberg to discuss the Supreme Court staying a lower court order that prevented the firing of Rebecca Slaughter as FTC Commissioner, a…

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Lawfare Archive: What the ‘Kids’ Think of NATO with Rachel Rizzo 31:06

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From June 3, 2024: Rachel Rizzo, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center, joins Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk about last month’s NATO Youth Summit. Building off of her chapter “NATO, Public Opinion, and the Next Generation: Remaining Relevant, Remaining Strong,” in the 2021 book, “NATO 2030: Towards a New…

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Lawfare Archive: Brian Winter on the Imminent Election Crisis in Brazil 32:15

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From September 27, 2022: In just under a week, on October 2, Brazil will hold the first round of its general election, which will determine the country's next president. To talk through all things Brazilian politics, Lawfare managing editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Brian Winter, editor-in-chief of Americas Quarterly and a journalist with over a …

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Scaling Laws: The State of AI Safety with Steven Adler 49:14

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Steven Adler, former OpenAI safety researcher, author of Clear-Eyed AI on Substack, and independent AGI-readiness researcher, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and Senior Fellow at Lawfare, to assess the current state of AI testing and evaluations. The two walk through Steven’s views on indus…

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👀 🔥🔥 Philadelphia Eagles vs Kansas City Chiefs Week 2 Preview! 👀 🔥🔥 22:21

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🔗 Listen, Subscribe, Review The Riding the Bench Eagles Podcast on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riding-the-bench-podkast/id1432152194?uo=4 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaPn3WurtqbztDdPZaePl 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-riding-the-bench-eagle-141224777/ 📱 Follow us on Instagram: h…

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Rational Security: The “Trump Ruined My Dinner” Edition 1:10:03

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This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Natalie Orpett, and Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School Rebecca Ingber, to talk through the week’s big national security news, including: “Uninvited Aerial Vehicles.” The Polish government is claiming that nineteen armed Russian UAVs penetrated its airspace last night. Whi…

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Most or All: Choose Your Reality - Ki Savo - Ep. 400 10:36

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Ever wonder why the Torah needs to command happiness during the joyful mitzvah of Bikurim? Why does the pasuk emphasize rejoicing "with all the good" when bringing first fruits to Jerusalem? This week's Parshas Ki Savo episode uncovers a profound connection between the Bikurim celebration and the harsh tochacha warnings later in the parsha. Through…

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Lawfare Daily: The 9/11 Case in Guantanamo 1:06:32

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Twenty-four years ago today, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, another hit the Pentagon, and another went down in a field in Pennsylvania. It was the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil in American history. But the men the United States accuses of perpetrating the attacks haven't been held accountable. In fact, they haven'…

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Lawfare Daily: Adam Chan on the FCC’s Growing Role in National Security 55:22

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For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Contributing Editor Brandon Van Grack sit down with Adam Chan, the first National Security Counsel at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to discuss the FCC’s increasingly important role in U.S. national security policy. Together they discuss the origins of the FCC’s role in …

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Lawfare Daily: Sanctions, Speech, and Sovereignty in Brazil 56:15

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For today’s episode, Lawfare Contributing Editor Renée DiResta interviews Joan Barata, Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Porto; Laís Martins, journalist at The Intercept Brazil and Fellow at Tech Policy Press; and James Görgen, adviser to Brazil’s Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services, to discuss the dramatic interse…

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🚨🚨 Philadelphia Eagles TRADE For RB Tank Bigsby | Fan Reaction To Eagles Acquisitions! 🚨🚨 17:24

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🔗 Listen, Subscribe, Review The Riding the Bench Eagles Podcast on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riding-the-bench-podkast/id1432152194?uo=4 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaPn3WurtqbztDdPZaePl 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-riding-the-bench-eagle-141224777/ 📱 Follow us on Instagram: h…

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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Sep 5 1:38:15

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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Roger Parloff and Scott Anderson, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss, and the Brennan Center's Katherine Yon Ebright to discuss the ongoing activation of National Guard in the District of Columbia, the Trump Administration's lethal …

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Lawfare Archive: How the FBI is Combating Cyberattacks, with Brett Leatherman 54:24

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From March 28, 2024: One of the gravest threats to U.S. national security today—and also one of the newest—is the risk of cyberattacks. They come in many forms, and they can incapacitate companies, institutions, and even the government. To better understand these threats—and how the government is responding to them—Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie…

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Lawfare Archive: A Conversation with an Exiled Venezuelan Opposition Leader 25:48

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From August 22, 2024: Anastasiia Lapatina is a Kyiv-based Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare. Leopoldo Lopez is a Venezuelan opposition leader living in exile in Madrid, after escaping prison for leading protests against Nicolás Maduro in 2014. Lapatina and Lopez discuss the results of Venezuela’s recent presidential election, ties between Venezuela’s autoc…

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Lawfare Daily: U.S. Military Conducts Lethal Strike on Venezuelan ‘Drug Boat’ 1:00:00

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In a live conversation on Sept. 4, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School Rebecca Ingber to discuss the U.S. strike on an alleged “drug boat” traveling from Venezuela, the president’s authority to use lethal force outside of war, and more. To receive a…

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Scaling Laws: Contrasting and Conflicting Efforts to Regulate Big Tech: EU v. U.S. 47:04

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Anu Bradford, Professor at Columbia Law School, and Kate Klonick, Senior Editor at Lawfare and Associate Professor at St. John's University School of Law, join Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to assess the ongoing, contrasting, and, at times, conflicting regulatory…

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Philadelphia Eagles Jalen Hurts Stars Against The Dallas Cowboys! 20:45

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🔗 Listen, Subscribe, Review The Riding the Bench Eagles Podcast on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riding-the-bench-podkast/id1432152194?uo=4 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaPn3WurtqbztDdPZaePl 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-riding-the-bench-eagle-141224777/ 📱 Follow us on Instagram: h…

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Ep. 175 From Inspiration to Impact: Family Medicine at the Crossroads of Change w/ Shawn Martin and Dr. Tina Sharma 23:51

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This week on Faisel and Friends, we are discussing From Inspiration to Impact: Family Medicine at the Crossroads of Change. Faisel and Dan are talking with Shawn Martin, Executive Vice President and CEO of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and Dr. Tina Sharma, Chief Resident of Family Medicine at The University of Texas at Tyler. Our conve…

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Lawfare Daily: Wargaming a Chinese Blockade of Taiwan 34:22

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For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviews Mark Cancian, a Senior Adviser with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to assess the impact and implications of a Chinese blockade of Taiwan. Cancian discusses why China might choose blockade over an outright invasion, how the blockade might affect Taiwan, t…

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Stop Cooling, Start Heating - Parshas Ki Teitzei - Ep. 399 11:49

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Join this week's Torah podcast exploring the deeper mysteries of Parshas Ki Tetzay and the unique commandment to remember Amalek. Why does only Amalek merit a special mitzvah to remember their evil deeds - what about all the other nations that tried to destroy the Jewish people? What does Rashi mean when he explains that Amalek "cooled us down," an…

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Rational Security: The “Master of the House” Edition 1:20:17

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This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower, Tyler McBrien, and Peter Harrell to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including: “Faginomics.” With the recent announcement that the U.S. government would be taking a 10% stake in the company Intel, the Trump administration has ushered in a new era of state-…

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Lawfare Daily: Federal Judges Rule Against Trump on National Guard Deployment, Tariffs, and Removal of Migrant Children to Guatemala 56:09

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In a live conversation on Sept. 2, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Anna Bower, and Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss to discuss Sunday’s emergency hearing in L.G.M.L. et al. v. Kristi Noem—in which Judge Sparkle Sooknanan blocked the Trump administration’s plans to send unaccomp…

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Philadelphia Eagles vs Dallas Cowboys NFL Week 1 Preview! 15:04

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🔗 Listen, Subscribe, Review The Riding the Bench Eagles Podcast on: 🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-riding-the-bench-podkast/id1432152194?uo=4 🎧 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GaPn3WurtqbztDdPZaePl 🎧 iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-riding-the-bench-eagle-141224777/ 📱 Follow us on Instagram: h…

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Lawfare Daily: Pocket Rescissions in Congress 36:01

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On today’s episode, Molly Reynolds, Contributing Editor at Lawfare and Senior Fellow at Brookings, sits down with Zach Price, Associate Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco, and Phil Wallach, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss pocket rescissions as an approach to cancelling funds previously approved by Congress. They…

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The Trials of the Trump Administration, Aug. 29 1:49:02

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In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower and Scott Anderson, Lawfare contributor James Pearce, Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss, and The Atlantic staff writer Quinta Jurecic to discuss the legality of the Trump administration’s cancellation of $4.9 billion in …

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Lawfare Archive: Richard Albert on Constitutional Resilience Amid Political Tumult 46:41

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From August 23, 2024: Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor of Government, and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to conduct a comparative analysis of what helps constitu…

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Lawfare Archive: The Wagner Group, One Year After Prigozhin with Vanda Felbab-Brown 39:01

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From August 28, 2024: On today’s episode, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director of the Africa Security Initiative, and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution joins Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to help make sense of the recent skirmishes in northern Mali between the junta,…