The nonproliferation regime remains strong—maybe even stronger than before.

Your weekly summary of everything on the site.

A view from inside the Eastern District of Virginia courtroom where New York Attorney General Letitia James pleaded not guilty to mortgage fraud.

A review of Tim Weiner, “The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century” (Mariner Books, 2025).

The president spent research and development money to pay the troops, violating appropriations law and a slew of other statutes.

The group American Oversight warned the prosecutor’s disappearing Signal messages could qualify as “federal records.”

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

If you are not mocking The Situation, The Situation is dominating you.

The AI race isn’t only about chips or tariffs. It’s also about who writes the technical standards shaping the world’s systems.

The purpose of intellectual property law is to incentivize the production of new ideas, not to function as a welfare scheme for artists.

Persistent penetration of domestic networks makes coordinated defenses and robust deterrence essential to preventing cyber conflict.

To promote AI accountability and peer-monitoring, AI firms should be held collectively liable for catastrophic damages.

Choosing not to engage The Situation on its terms.

The Kremlin’s recruitment of certain convict soldiers risks unraveling the deal between Russian organized crime and the state that has helped maintain stability for over two decades.