State AI laws require developers to report safety incidents—but not what investigation follows or what evidence they must keep.

Models never released publicly may still fall under the EU AI Act. Companies cannot assume that what stays in-house stays out of scope.

As AI labs draw professors and students away from universities, society risks losing the expertise to govern what those labs build.

The administration has turned an unfixable fact—Chinese parts in nearly every U.S. voting machine—into a license to contest any election it loses.

Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture—or the law that enabled it.

Twenty-five years since 9/11, tech and political shifts have increasingly pitted mass surveillance against constitutional rights.

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

A growing number of convicted terrorists are soon to be released from prison. There’s no plan to address potential recidivism.

The analytic mistakes made in the aftermath of the attacks still have lessons today.

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The DHS constructed by Congress in 2002 is now outdated, reviled by many, and was flawed from the start. Time to rethink and rebuild.

How the U.S. and the EU built law enforcement and counterterrorism information sharing in the wake of 9/11.

Political decisions across five administrations have paralyzed the 9/11 cases for 25 years. The Supreme Court can finally help deliver justice.

From hunting al-Qaeda to hunting immigrants.

Post-9/11 data-sharing systems built for security quietly became the infrastructure for today’s automated immigration enforcement.