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Healthy Insurance Markets Will Be Critical for AI Governance
The question is not if insurers will play a role, but rather how to ensure they play a socially beneficial one. -
Rational Security: The “Chestbursters Roasting on an Open Fire” Edition
Scott Anderson, Alan Rozenshtein, and Ari Tabatabai talked through the week’s big national security news stories. -
Lawfare Daily: Scott Anderson on How Social Media Platforms Should Handle Unrecognized Regimes
How should social media platforms handle unrecognized regimes like the Taliban? -
A Political Earthquake in Ukraine
Zelensky folds to critics and sacks his ultra-powerful chief of staff. -
Platforms, Sanctions, and Unrecognized Regimes
A novel strategy for social media platforms dealing with local de facto authorities like the Taliban. -
A Terrorism of Vengeance
Understanding incels, school shooters, and the new category of terrorism, “nihilistic violent extremism.” -
The Situation: Why Can’t Kash Patel Shut Up?
On the FBI director’s penchant for commenting on pending matters. -
The Administration’s Drug Boat Strikes Are Crimes Against Humanity
Members of Congress are wrong to call the strikes war crimes in the absence of an armed conflict, but the strikes are serious crimes under international law. -
Scaling Laws: AI Chatbots and the Future of Free Expression with Jacob Mchangama and Jacob Shapiro
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Lawfare Daily: Ukraine’s Asymmetric Blueprint in the Black Sea
How is Ukraine using drones in its maritime operations in the Black Sea? -
Executive Order Designates Fentanyl as Weapon of Mass Destruction
The White House says fentanyl is “closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic,” warning about the opioid's possible use in a terror attack. -
The European Union Changes Course on Digital Legislation
The proposed digital omnibus package would make changes to the AI Act and GDPR in addition to other data-related measures. -
The Pentagon’s Operational Technology Problem
The readiness of America’s warfighters depends on the cybersecurity of operational technology that is largely unregulated. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 12
Listen to the Dec. 12 livestream as a podcast. -
The Situation: Who is the “Responsible United States Attorney” in Virginia?
Such an official must exist, because the Justice Manual says her approval is required to keep indicting Letitia James. -
Cutting Off Hamas’s European Fundraising Spigot
European countries are designating and prosecuting Hamas’s financial lifeline, but far more needs to be done. -
Scaling Laws: Rapid Response on the AI Preemption Executive Order
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The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site. -
Trump Signs Executive Order to Preempt State AI Laws
The White House has released an executive order blocking the enactment and enforcement of a “patchwork” of state AI regulations. -
The Bondi Memo’s Quiet Rewriting of Domestic Terrorism Rules
A leaked directive recasts counterterrorism around “Antifa,” hollowing out post-Church Committee safeguards while the administration claims restraint.
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When Is a Drug a Weapon? The Legal Puzzles of Designating Fentanyl a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’
President Trump’s WMD designation could have major implications for civil-military relations and asset forfeiture, if courts agree. -
Scaling Laws: Cass Sunstein on What AI Can and Cannot Do
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The Military’s Social Media Purge
Nobody can tell what’s covered by the military’s newest standards for online speech. That’s the point.
