Wittes has written for The Atlantic and The New Republic, and has contributed columns to Slate, Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and First Things.

He and his team at Lawfare attended courtroom proceedings in the Southern District of Florida, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Fulton County, Georgia, and aired weekly discussion of developments in these cases.

In May 2017, Wittes contacted New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt to tell him about a conversation he’d had with former FBI Director James Comey when they had lunch together in March 2017.

[15] On April 13, 2022, Wittes and a group of activists projected images of the Ukrainian flag across the facade of the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. in the first of a series of lightshows he calls “Special Military Operations.” Projections have expanded to include images of solidarity for Ukraine and language protesting the Russian invasion and have taken place on Washington’s National Mall and in cities including Berlin, Brussels, Helsinki, Ottawa, Paris, and Stockholm.

[16][17][18][19] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation banned Wittes from entering its territory on March 14, 2024, misspelling his name as “Witts.” The ban applies to “those involved in conceiving, carrying out and justifying the anti-Russia policy adopted by the current administration of the United States, as well as those directly involved in anti-Russia undertakings” and names a total of 227 business and technology leaders, attorneys, journalists, academics, and government officials in civilian foreign aid, energy, security, intelligence, treasury, judiciary, and foreign service departments.

[20] In 2021, The Bulwark published a 35-episode series A French Village Podcast with Sarah Longwell and Ben Wittes, providing commentary on a 2009 television show about the Nazi occupation of a small town in France and exploring the themes of courage, complicity, and attempts to maintain neutrality in moments of moral urgency.