Contrary to Trump’s claims, executive power to impose import bans is constrained by most of the same legal restrictions as the power to impose tariffs.

Generative AI can increase the quantity and quality of malign foreign influence campaigns. However, questions remain as to whether these campaigns influence public opinion.

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Industry-backed preemption arguments in the climate deception case threaten the federalism safeguards that check an imperial presidency.

A review of Jessica Trisko Darden, “The Accused: How Women Faced Justice for Nazi-Era Crimes” (Yale University Press, 2026).

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

As Congress debates who should control frontier AI governance, “cybersecurity” can become a substitute for reasoning about hard policy choices.

Despite admitting to its biggest civilian harm incidents in years, the U.S. military has not accounted for dozens of victims from 2025.

Congress restricted military deployments to election sites, even when a broader deployment authority might otherwise apply.

A new semi-regular column of essays on law and computation, not quite ready for Substack

The U.S. needs a strategy to counter China’s leverage in cyberspace. 

Once model weights are published, developers lose control. Export controls can still work—but only at the right chokepoints.