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Rulemaking by Memo: Why CMMC Suspension Deserves Review
DOD CIO suspended the backbone of defense supply-chain security with a memo. Under new case law, it may not survive the courts—or the threat. -
Lawfare Daily: Why Autocrats Hate Cities with Ambassador Nina Hachigian
What U.S. mayors can learn about resisting autocracy from their counterparts abroad? -
Why We’re Suing the State Department Over International Agreements
Lawfare is suing to bring transparency back to international agreements—and you can help. -
America Must Protect Its Training Data
AI training data built by U.S. firms is being sold to Chinese labs and powering their models. U.S. policymakers can use existing law to stop these sales. -
Scaling Laws: Algorithmic Disgorgement with Christina Lee
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 4
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The Week That Was
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Free Speech, Deportation, and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Denying habeas review of detention for protected speech risks accomplishing in practice what the Constitution forbids without actual suspension. -
USPS Plays a 'Puzzle Game' With the Right to Vote
Months away from elections, a federal judge worries President Trump's mail-in voting executive order could cause disenfranchisement. -
China's Private-Sector Botnets Are Worth Disrupting
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
Lawfare Daily: Mike Schmidt Talks CHIPS and U.S. Industrial Policy
In this episode of the Security Economics podcast series Mike Schmidt discusses the CHIPS Act. -
Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China’s AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road
China's “free” AI models are rerunning Huawei’s telecom playbook: Give the weights away, sell the stack around it, own the dependency. -
Rational Security: The "Whale of a Tale" Edition
Scott Anderson, Molly Roberts, Eric Columbus, and Renée DiResta to talked through the week’s big domestic news stories. -
Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 4
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation surrounding the Trump administration. -
The ‘Covered List’: A Fraud Claimed ‘National Security’
A tool built to block Huawei and Hikvision now bans drones, routers, and solar inverters—undermining the security it was meant to protect. -
Lawfare Daily: Peter Salib on the Legal and Policy Ramifications of the OpenAI-Hugging Face Postmortems
What does the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident mean for the broader AI evaluation ecosystem? -
AIs as Modern Genies
With AI we have built genies. Old stories told us how this goes. -
Search Warrants for Election Materials Get Their Day in Court
The California Supreme Court has a chance to emphasize that the criminal justice system isn’t built to “double-check” election results. -
Persistent Engagement and the Illusion of Cyber Equilibrium
Strategies built to disrupt cyber adversaries may impose costs but are unlikely to lead to long-term stability. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 1
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9/11’s Legacy of Torture
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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
Twenty-five years since 9/11, tech and political shifts have increasingly pitted mass surveillance against constitutional rights. -
The 25th Anniversary of the 2001 AUMF
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