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A bill to automatically fund the government in an appropriations lapse would end shutdowns—except the Two-Year Clause forbids funding the Army permanently.
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Listen to the August 21 discussion as a podcast.
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A deal that disarms Hamas may not disarm Gaza.
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Your weekly summary of everything on the site.
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A review of Kevin Arlyck, “The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789-1825” (Cambridge University Press, 2025).
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It is a global model for its domestic, not international, legal origins. Future peace may be the real cost of de la Espriella’s attacks.
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The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.
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Judges face an unsatisfactory menu of AI options. A secure, judiciary-controlled sandbox for testing frontier models is the better path.
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Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation surrounding the Trump administration.
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The CIA spent seven decades moving from purging LGBT officers to embracing them—until the second Trump administration began undoing that work.
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Anna Bower discusses the Justice Department reportedly empaneling a special grand jury in Washington, D.C.
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Strategists must understand the great powers’ different approaches to nuclear use.