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The “GEC Files” Don’t Show a Censorship Operation
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Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, August 28
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Invisible Source Skew
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U.K. Supreme Court Opens Door for Spyware Victims to Sue Foreign States
The Kingdom of Bahrain cannot claim immunity from a suit by exiled dissidents over harm caused by spyware surveillance on U.K. soil. -
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Scaling Laws, Founders & Founders: Brandon Mitchell of WriteSea
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China's AI-Enabled APT Operations Are Getting Interesting
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Lawfare Daily: Israel's Most Consequential Election, with Natan Sachs
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Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, August 28
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Rational Security: The “All Takin’ and No Givin’” Edition
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The Boat Strikes Aren’t Part of a War. They’re Murder.
By debating war powers and war crimes, Congress is missing the simpler, graver truth: The president is directing summary executions. -
The Church Bells Still Ring
A year after the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting, an examination of faith and fidelity to nothing. -
Scaling Laws: Is Meta's Oversight Board a Model for AI Governance?
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Replacement Through Knowledge Acquisition
Remedying the risk of RKA to enterprises dependent on frontier AI. -
Lawfare Daily: Censorship Incentives with Julia Curlee and Mike Feinberg
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The Censorship Machine: Silencing the National Security Workforce
A campaign of public retaliation and personal incentives has taught current and former public servants to stay silent.
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Lawfare Daily: Julia Curlee and John Sipher on John Ratcliffe’s Tenure as the Director of Central Intelligence
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Zombie Formalism in Luxembourg
A CJEU ruling on driving-app data and online pornography quietly guts the EU's Section 230 equivalent—and the court owes Europe an explanation it hasn't given.
