Following Ronen Bar’s resignation and an HCJ judgment, Netanyahu has rushed to propose a new Shin Bet head, inviting legal challenges.

The agreement incentivizes the U.S. to support Ukraine’s defense, while Ukraine risks earning little revenue from the partnership.

While the act attempts to address AI harms, its regulatory misalignment serves as a cautionary tale, urging a more centralized approach.

Allowing the military to determine what “extraordinary circumstances” permit disobedience invites insubordination and ineffectualness.

A drone attack on an air base was imagined 30 years ago in a think tank report.

The conversion of a disinformation code from self-regulation to requirement sparks an international tiff. What’s really happening?

The bureau’s role in shaping U.S. counterterrorism strategy is indispensable—but it needs to adapt and be adequately resourced.

A review of Emmanuel Carrere, V13: Chronicle of a Trial (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024)

A modern disputation on the power and efficacy of indulgences

A recent bid for Baloch secession is unlikely to gain traction.

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The Second Circuit ruled that the bank is not protected by common law foreign sovereign immunity—unless the Supreme Court decides otherwise.

It strains credulity to claim that broad preemption of state AI regulation for the next decade is a necessary term or condition of an appropriation of $500 million for the Department of Commerce to updat...

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