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Healthy Insurance Markets Will Be Critical for AI Governance
The question is not if insurers will play a role, but rather how to ensure they play a socially beneficial one.
A Political Earthquake in Ukraine
Zelensky folds to critics and sacks his ultra-powerful chief of staff.
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Platforms, Sanctions, and Unrecognized Regimes
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A Terrorism of Vengeance
Understanding incels, school shooters, and the new category of terrorism, “nihilistic violent extremism.”
The Situation: Why Can’t Kash Patel Shut Up?
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The Administration’s Drug Boat Strikes Are Crimes Against Humanity
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Healthy Insurance Markets Will Be Critical for AI Governance
The question is not if insurers will play a role, but rather how to ensure they play a socially beneficial one. -
A Political Earthquake in Ukraine
Zelensky folds to critics and sacks his ultra-powerful chief of staff. -
Platforms, Sanctions, and Unrecognized Regimes
A novel strategy for social media platforms dealing with local de facto authorities like the Taliban. -
A Terrorism of Vengeance
Understanding incels, school shooters, and the new category of terrorism, “nihilistic violent extremism.” -
The Situation: Why Can’t Kash Patel Shut Up?
On the FBI director’s penchant for commenting on pending matters. -
The Administration’s Drug Boat Strikes Are Crimes Against Humanity
Members of Congress are wrong to call the strikes war crimes in the absence of an armed conflict, but the strikes are serious crimes under international law. -
The European Union Changes Course on Digital Legislation
The proposed digital omnibus package would make changes to the AI Act and GDPR in addition to other data-related measures. -
The Pentagon’s Operational Technology Problem
The readiness of America’s warfighters depends on the cybersecurity of operational technology that is largely unregulated. -
The Situation: Who is the “Responsible United States Attorney” in Virginia?
Such an official must exist, because the Justice Manual says her approval is required to keep indicting Letitia James. -
Cutting Off Hamas’s European Fundraising Spigot
European countries are designating and prosecuting Hamas’s financial lifeline, but far more needs to be done. -
The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site. -
The Bondi Memo’s Quiet Rewriting of Domestic Terrorism Rules
A leaked directive recasts counterterrorism around “Antifa,” hollowing out post-Church Committee safeguards while the administration claims restraint. -
Why Zelensky Can’t Hold Elections Yet
As Trump pushes Ukrainians to go to the polls, consider the risks. -
The Situation: Another Day, Another No True Bill
As Bob Dylan once sang, “How many grand juries must reject an indictment before we call it a no true bill?” -
How to Tell a National Security Story
A review of two books from Peter Roady and Andrew Preston.
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