A review of Samanth Subramanian, “The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World” (Columbia Global Reports, 2025).

Regulations that force developers to disclose trade secrets to the public could violate the Constitution. How can regulators respond?

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

The criticism of the techniques used in the FBI’s investigation of the false electors plot, much like the critiques of how it was opened, do not bear scrutiny.

The United States has the authority and the justification to lift the last vestiges of U.S. sanctions. What it appears to lack is the will.

Beijing’s new rules make standard U.S. sanctions compliance illegal in China. Washington and allies must build structural defenses before a multinational firm is prosecuted.

To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering.

Russia’s strike on Kyiv’s Chornobyl Museum was more than an attack on a civilian or cultural site; it targeted historical memory itself.

How one strike rewrote the law of leadership decapitation.

No court can stop President Trump’s ballroom, the government says in National Trust for Historic Preservation v. NPS.

They may lack the force of law, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have legal effects.