Eric Schmitt’s “The Last Line of Defense” casts courts as stages for political spectacle rather than forums for justice—and rewrites the evidentiary record along the way.

The legal regimes governing attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and economic warfare as an act of self-defense.

Don’t look now but even without The Situation, things would really suck.

The war with Iran is being fought in new domains, from cyberspace to outer space.

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A review of Orin Kerr, “The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World,”(Oxford University Press, 2025). 

The conflict between Pakistan and the Taliban might escalate. It might also be the new normal.

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

How the Court’s fractured tariff decision may reshape delegated executive authority well beyond trade—and why the future of the major questions doctrine remains far from settled.

The government can stop buying from Anthropic anytime it wants. It just can't bypass the procurement system Congress built to do it.

Pentagon cuts to military education at elite universities risk weakening U.S. technological innovation, officer development, and strategic competition with China.

The General Services Administration’s draft AI clause gets the governance problem right—then blows right past it.

The discovery of CCP-linked biolabs on American soil exposes major biosecurity gaps. Policymakers must act to improve oversight of biological research activity.