AI-enabled advancements in drones increase drone use and impact, the speed of change, and the need for allied nations’ interoperability.

A review of Hanna Notte, “We Shall Outlast Them: Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West” (W.W. Norton, 2026).

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

It’s time that federal law enforcement disclose what data they buy and how they use it. Congress should require transparency.

Which ownership mechanisms redistribute AI’s economic gains, and which strengthen public oversight?

The Eighth Circuit’s review of Minnesota’s strict-liability nudification law may settle what state of mind AI companies need for liability.

What would a ban on open weight models which run artificial intelligence systems actually look like? Could it even be implemented? What implications would it have for the concept of digital sovereignty?

From Reconstruction to the Voting Rights Act, how the U.S. came to keep soldiers from the ballot box, and why that norm is now being tested.

There’s no master plan to meddle in the midterms. But the STEEL Working Group looked at the wide array of tactics threat actors may try—and how to stop them.

Trump v. United States weakened Congress’s oversight powers. If Democrats retake Congress, expect them to try to work around it.

The lesson of America’s violent electoral history is that democracy depends not just on the ability to win elections but also on the willingness to lose them.