Force posture decisions have become another coercive tool in the Trump administration’s alliance management toolkit.

Washington’s misplaced assumptions around export control and domestic regulations pose strategic risks to national stability.

Trump v. Slaughter’s silence on the civil service raises concerns of executive aggrandizement.

The U.S. doesn’t need a new agency—it needs existing ones to work. Upgrading Treasury’s financial intelligence office offers a start.

Anthropic raised the possibility of a coordinated, verified AI development pause. Antitrust law might prevent that.

Agency actions and court decisions make it easier to understand how insidious, and how illegal, the EO will turn out to be.

The catch-all category is misleading and a mistake.