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Why Is the Weaponization Report So … Normal?
The Justice Department report’s measured tone masks a deeper effort to legitimize targeting career officials. -
Rational Security: The "Middle-Aged Dads" Edition
Scott Anderson, Michael Feinberg, and Dana Stuster discussed the week’s big national security news stories. -
DHS’s Flawed Defense of Home Invasion Based on Administrative Warrants
Defending ICE home invasions without judicial warrants, DHS relies in significant part on a 1960 Supreme Court case. Does that hold up? -
Lawfare Daily: Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA) on Congress’s Role in Foreign Affairs
Representative Sara Jacobs joins Lawfare Daily to discuss the Iran War, U.S. foreign assistance, and more. -
Fewer Bots, More Ads: The Pentagon’s Evolving Online Influence Campaigns
Post-2022 efforts use ad buys to reach millions—drawing real reactions, Community Notes, and appeals to Grok. -
Ukraine’s Energy Corruption Scandal Just Got Much Worse
For the first time, there may be evidence that President Zelensky personally profited from corruption. -
Dominating AI Requires Understanding AI
AI dominance will require more than faster models—it will require breakthroughs in understanding, testing, and securing frontier AI. -
Lawfare Daily: Terrorism and Insurgency in sub-Saharan Africa
Breaking down the growth of terrorism and instability in East and West Africa. -
A New Low? Presidential Records and the Role of OLC
An extraordinary constitutional claim from OLC threatens decades of practice—and now faces the courts. -
Scaling Laws: Forecasting AI's Impact on the Economy with Deger Turan, CEO of Metaculus
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DHS’s Misleading Press Release Smears a U.S. Judge in Rhode Island
The judge has referred an assistant U.S. attorney for an ethics inquiry, but she has said that DHS was the truly bad actor. -
Lawfare Daily: Russian PMCs Update with Candace Rondeaux
Discussing the current state of Russia’s Wagner Group and other Russian private military companies. -
New Trove of Fulton County Case Materials Published
Lawfare expects to publish more materials obtained from the case file, as well as additional reporting and analysis drawn from these materials. -
Will AI Produce the Next Great Divergence?
An analysis of AI and institutions. -
How Nuclear Deterrence Can Inform Europe’s AI Strategy
Europe needs “AI latency,” not AI sovereignty. -
Lawfare Daily: What the War Powers Resolution Means for Iran
Is the WPR constraining President Trump's ability to wage war with Iran? -
The Future of the Gulf’s Security Order
The Iran War is reshaping how the Gulf states approach defense. -
The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site. -
Law and the Iran War, After the First 60 Days
The War Powers Resolution hasn’t been rendered irrelevant. Its relevance is just beginning. -
The Politically Motivated Indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center
The political motivations, allegations, and gaping legal holes in the Justice Department’s cynical indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Rational Security: The “Happy FrAIday” Edition
Scott Anderson sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Kevin Frazier, Roger Parloff, and Molly Roberts to talk through some of the week’s big news in AI. -
Harsh Confinement
A review of W. Fitzhugh Brundage, “A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War” (Norton, 2026). -
Open-Weight Model Advances Make the Mythos Debate Moot
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.
