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Justice Department Charges Iranian with Attempted Plot to Murder Former National Security Advisor John Bolton
Shahram Poursafi, the charged individual, allegedly tried to pay several people in the United States $300,000 each to murder Bolton in Washington, D.C. or Maryland. -
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The Lawfare Podcast: Unpacking the FBI's Search at Mar-a-Lago
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Rational Security 2.0: The 'Very Model of a Modern Major General' Edition
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#LiveFromUkraine: Vitalii Ovcharenko Talks About Fighting for Ukraine in the Field
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In U.S. v. Al-Nashiri the Government Is Rewarding Torture and Incentivizing Torturers
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What We Do and Don’t Know About the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search
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D.C. Circuit Panel Allows House Committee to Review Trump’s Tax Returns
What happened now in the fight over Trump’s tax returns? -
SIGAR Issues Assessment on Theft of Funds During Afghan Government Collapse
The report does not find sufficient evidence to support allegations that President Ghani and his senior advisors fled with millions of dollars in cash taken from the Afghan government. -
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Water Wars: Speaker Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Ignites U.S.-China Tensions
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A Century-and-a-Half Look at the Waves of Global Terrorism
A review of David C. Rapoport, “Waves of Global Terrorism: From 1879 to the Present” (Columbia University Press, 2022). -
The Aftermath, Episode 4: A Bipartisan Interlude
In this episode, we recall the brief period, now all but forgotten, in which Democrats and Republicans worked together to confront what had happened on Jan. 6. -
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The Lawfare Podcast: Decoding Aleksandr Ionov’s Influence Operation with Thomas Rid and Brandon Van Grack
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The Wrong Way to Compete With China
The CHIPS and Science Act is a major, bipartisan plan to compete more effectively with China. But it places too much emphasis on subsidies and state direction. -
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Shared Residual Liability for Frontier AI Firms
To promote AI accountability and peer-monitoring, AI firms should be held collectively liable for catastrophic damages.