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Ten questions that will condition the next several months of American life.

The Pentagon's threat to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk" over its AI use restrictions is extreme—but the deeper problem is that the rules for military AI are being set through ad hoc haggling i...

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

Meaningful judicial scrutiny of national security claims is important for the rule of law, democratic legitimacy, and America’s strength at home and abroad.

Legal disputes over domestic military deployments don’t stay domestic—they degrade the alliance predictability NATO depends on.

How nationality-based enforcement after the National Guard shooting weakens U.S. security.

Warlords turn aid into a “cash machine.” To stop fueling wars, donors must enforce strict benchmarks and halt money when it’s stolen.

Allies are cracking down on X and its AI Grok over illegal content, while Washington largely stands aside.

The secretary of state’s Munich speech in plain simple English.

Elevating the legal duty of proportionality can reduce the severity of attacks on hospitals in war or avoid them altogether.