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Rational Security: The "A Rabbi, the Pope, and an Argentinian Lawyer Walk Into a Bar" Edition
This week, Scott Anderson sat down with Benjamin Wittes, Anastasiia Lapatina, and Eugenia Lostri to try to make sense of the week’s biggest national security news. -
Independent Review Panel Finds “Systemic” USSS Failures
Detailing failures related to the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump, the panel outlined larger issues and recommendations. -
Section 502(f) Is Not a Blank Check
The statute provides the National Guard with more flexibility—but the use of unfederalized troops for operational missions has its limits. -
Lawfare Daily: Jonathan Zittrain on Controlling AI Agents
What are AI agents? -
The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform
Content moderation is becoming a “compliance function,” with trust and safety operations run like factories and audited like investment banks. -
Sounding the Alarm on Digitally Enabled Sanctions Evasion
Innovative sanctions evasion practices should prompt a reassessment of the national security risks posed by digital financial technologies. -
Lawfare Daily: Making Sense of the Doppelganger Disinformation Operation, with Thomas Rid
What is the Doppleganger campaign? -
How the Secret Service Failed to Prevent a Trump Assassination Attempt
A report from the Senate HSGAC details USSS security and planning failures related to the July 13 attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Pa. -
What Does the 60-Day Rule Require?
It’s past time for the Justice Department to respond to the inspector general’s 2018 request to clarify the meaning of the 60-day rule on electoral interference. -
Lawfare Daily: The Antitrust Implications of AI Systems with David Lawrence
What are the antitrust implications of AI systems? -
Chatter: Freedom of the Seas, with David Bosco
Discussing the origins of the freedom of the seas concept. -
The Kids Are Not Alright
Aspiring terrorists are getting younger and younger. There isn’t a simple policy answer for it. -
The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site. -
Lawfare Daily: Lies and Rumors After Hurricanes Helene and Milton
How and why does misinformation spread after disasters? -
How Telegram Turbocharges Organized Crime
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
How Autocrats Gained the Upper Hand
A review of Anne Applebaum, “Autocracy, Inc.”(Doubleday, 2024). -
A Financial Primer on a New International AI Organization
Creating an effective international AI organization requires knowing how to pay for it. -
Rational Security: The "No, Not That Stormy" Edition
Scott Anderson talked to Molly Reynolds, Kevin Frazier, and Katherine Pompilio about the week's big national security news stories -
Domestic Policing Deployment and Public Trust in the Military
What do Americans think about domestic deployments? -
Lawfare Daily: A New Exhibition on Visual Investigation with Lisa Luksch, Anjli Parrin, and Brad Samuels
What is visual investigation?
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New Trove of Fulton County Case Materials Published
Lawfare expects to publish more materials obtained from the case file, as well as additional reporting and analysis drawn from these materials. -
Will AI Produce the Next Great Divergence?
An analysis of AI and institutions. -
How Nuclear Deterrence Can Inform Europe’s AI Strategy
Europe needs “AI latency,” not AI sovereignty.
