Chinese money laundering organizations have become key facilitators of global illicit finance, threatening U.S. national security.

The Trump administration is confronting a familiar problem: How can the United States prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon?

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Thoughts on American exceptionalism.

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

A review of Curtis Bradley, “Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice” (Harvard University Press, 2024)

An impressionistic painting.

AI-powered surveillance facilitates authoritarianism across the globe. Here’s how courts and lawmakers could stop it from happening here.

The question at issue: whether a foreign sovereign must have minimum contacts with the U.S. before a court can assert personal jurisdiction over it.

A Joint Staff memorandum reviewed by Lawfare casts doubt on Secretary Hegseth’s claim that troops “hate” implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security Act.

NSPM-4, President Trump’s order on the military’s “mission for sealing the Southern Border,” obscures the fine-grained limits that ought to clearly and unambiguously regulate lethal force.

Trump’s efforts to force state cooperation on immigration raise pressing questions about the constitutional limits of federal authority.

Some see the prosecution of the Wisconsin circuit court judge as vindicating the rule of law, and others as an attack on it. They’re both wrong.