The FBI’s search on a Washington Post reporter’s home raises questions about the protections afforded to journalists in leak cases. 

BEAD—a statute about deploying service and connecting locations—never mentions AI and lacks the clarity these interpretative canons require.

Anthropic’s guidelines for AI development offer a novel approach to training frontier models and, perhaps, shaping AI governance.

The diplomatic tools the United States has historically depended on to counter proliferation are losing their edge. Adaptation is key. 

There is no magic bullet solution to a deranged president.

What standard of review should apply when a party argues that the government is acting in excess of its statutory authority?

Though there’s stiff competition, U.S. Attorney Pirro’s grand jury probe may be this administration’s most abusive yet.

The adjudicatory agency tasked with hearing employment disputes is a shell of its former self.

The Grand Conspiracy is a conspiracy theory, not a real legal theory.

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A review of Patrick G. Eddington, “The Triumph of Fear: Domestic Surveillance and Political Repression from McKinley to Eisenhower” (Georgetown University Press, 2025).

The U.S.’s withdrawal from international multistakeholder fora undermines human rights, global governance, and U.S. strategic interests.

The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.

Even when the Justice Department is right, it manages to behave with wild impropriety.