The recent decision takes off the table one of the most popular proposals for AI governance: an independent federal agency, free from a president’s whims.

A review of Wil Haygood, “The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home” (Alfred A. Knopf, 2026)

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

A live-blog of the summary judgment hearing over whether the U.S. Department of Defense designated Anthropic a “supply chain risk” to punish it for First Amendment protected speech.

Scott Bessent, Google, and Demis Hassabis all want a FINRA for AI. This is what it should look like.

A district court judge has affirmed removal protections for inferior officers in the first case to consider the question post-Slaughter.

The real lesson of the Hugging Face breach isn’t that AI went rogue—it’s how self-serving hype steers regulators toward the wrong fixes.

A draft law before China’s legislature would let prosecutors sue foreign firms over an undefined “national interest,” in courts the prosecution itself supervises.

On jets, journalism, and a judge.

How shifting strategic interests are reshaping cyber sovereignty in international law.

The Justice Department’s bid to nix a Clean Air Act suit against xAI’s turbines shows how security claims reshape energy permitting.