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Lawfare Daily: The Duty to Disobey Unlawful Orders
What is the duty to disobey unlawful orders? -
Hegseth Memo Instructs Defense Dept. to Use Military AI Platform
The memorandum describes “GenAI.mil” as a secure service fit to handle controlled unclassified information. -
Rational Security: The “Adverse Possession” Edition
Scott Anderson, Tyler McBrien and Alex Zerden talked through a few of the week’s big national security news stories. -
The Difficulty of Coding Terrorism
Terrorism researchers must recognize ambiguities in inclusion, coding, and analysis as they use data to inform policy. -
Regulating Commercial Spyware Through Export Controls
The Wassenaar export controls offer insights into the regulation of commercial spyware, making them instructive for current initiatives. -
Lawfare Daily: The Defense Tech Paradox, with Susannah Glickman
What is the role of defense tech in the second Trump administration? -
California Enacted AI Bills. Now Officials Must Define Them.
The impact of upcoming AI legislation hinges on how officials define key terms like “frontier model” and “reasonable measures.” -
Lawfare Live: Discussing the 2025 National Security Strategy
Watch the discussion on Dec. 11 at 10 am ET. -
Scaling Laws: Graham Dufault on Small Businesses and Navigating EU AI laws
How are small- and medium-sized enterprises navigating the EU's AI regulatory framework? -
Unexpected Questions in Learning Resources v. Trump
Are IEEPA tariffs permitted as either a lesser form of an embargo or the equivalent of a license fee? In short: no. -
Lawfare Daily: Wikipedia, Ref-Working, and the Battle Over Reality
What happens when reliable sources become a battleground for power? -
The Situation: Why Did the White House Write This National Security Strategy?
A very strange document. -
The Troubling Defense of the Second Strike
Even absent an order to “kill everybody,” the Trump administration’s actions—like its broader military campaign—raise serious legal concerns that demand further scrutiny. -
Embracing Climate Realities: The Climate Security Implications of COP30
The optimistic era of climate diplomacy, epitomized by the 2015 Paris Agreement, has given way to a more fragmented world in which climate change has taken a back seat. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Dec. 5
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Four Things to Know About Hybrid Air Denial
Adversaries are using new technologies to disrupt commercial flight without escalating to broader conflict. -
The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site. -
The Situation: My First Waymo
I took a ride to Palo Alto in a Jaguar with a robot driver. -
Hearing Dispatch: NPR Fights Trump on the First Amendment
The plaintiffs argue the government is disfavoring speech it disagrees with. The government barely disputes that. -
Pentagon Inspector General Releases Report on Hegseth’s Signal Use
The report concluded that the secretary “did not comply” with Defense Department policy when he “sent sensitive, nonpublic, operational information” on the messaging app.
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From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science
A review of Michael E. Mann & Peter J. Hotez, “Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World” (Public Affairs, 2025)
