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Eighty-one years after Hiroshima, a look at the legal contradiction embedded in the UN’s founding—and the dormant charter provision that could still resolve it.

A review of Fiona M. Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Nanette S. Levinson, and Francesca Musiani, “Geopolitics at the Internet’s Core” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025).

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

Documents encoding AI models’ values are alignment’s highest-leverage point—regulating their contents hits the First Amendment.

What Congress giveth, Congress can take away.

No one hacked us. Adversaries are buying U.S. troops’ location data on the open market. Privacy laws can’t stop them, but DOJ can.

In the seashells case, the FBI searched for proof that gangsters used “86” to mean “kill” and that Comey knew it. Now an expert says their theory is “preposterous.”

The revision fixed much of the first draft’s overreach, but the clause still doesn’t say where the government’s data protections begin and end.

The precedents set in the pursuit of Fauci could come back to haunt Republicans or possibly tee up even more politically motivated retribution campaigns in the next Congress.

The United States has increasingly used civil forfeiture to recover cryptocurrency stolen by transnational scam networks. The strategy has produced important seizures—but it remains structurally fragile ...

Hegseth’s U-turn on decades of CHMR progress has contributed to more civilian casualties and left victims without access to repair and amends.