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New Strategies for Securing Our Private Lives
I recently wrote an essay reflecting on the reality that nearly anyone with a life online is today subject to being hacked and having anything private become public. If the media is understandably going... -
What’s in a Name? The New Jabhat al-Nusra and the Future of Al Qaeda
On July 28, 2016, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, the leader of Jabhat al-Nusra—the official al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria—announced that the group was changing its name to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (JFS, which transla... -
How I Spent My Weekend: Picking a Fight With Sean Hannity
I don't normally spend time thinking about, much less responding to, television personalities. But the other day, Fox News's Sean Hannity tweeted a public endorsement of Wikileaks and Julian Assange: -
A Coalition of All Democratic Forces, Part III: What If Trump Wins?
If you believe the FiveThirtyEight electoral forecast, Donald Trump has only between a 14- and 16-percent chance of becoming president. -
The Islamic State's Coming Rural Revival
Editor's Note: We've seen this move before. Once again, the Islamic State is on the run, and once again, we are hoping that this is the beginning of the end. Not so fast, contend my Brookings colleague W... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Samuel Moyn on “How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End"
This week, Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Harvard University, closed out a one-day conference on “The Next President's Fight Against Terror” at New America with a talk on “How Warfare Becam... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Benjamin Wittes argued for a non-partisan coalition of democratic forces to come together after the election to stand behind American democratic and legal institutions. He then outlined an agenda for how... -
<em>Al Bahlul</em> and the Long Shadow of Illegitimacy
The number of factual and analytical errors that one can find in the five opinions on the side of the majority in the en banc D.C. Circuit's ruling in Al Bahlul v. United States is pretty stunning. -
Why Doesn’t Donald Trump Believe the U.S. Intelligence Community?
As Lawfare readers surely know by now, during Wednesday's third presidential debate there was this exchange (Transcript via New York Times): -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A DDOS attack targeting the DNS provider Dyn forced numerous major websites offline for extended periods of time across the East Coast of the United States on Friday. According to the New York Times, Dyn... -
The D.C. Circuit’s En Banc Decision in Bahlul: Sui Generis or Guidance for Future Military Commissions?
The en banc D.C. Circuit’s affirmance of the military commission conviction of Ali Hamza al Bahlul for conspiracy (see Lawfare’s summary here) solidifies the legitimacy of commissions in U.S. counterterr... -
Nowhere to Go in Amona
Since 1997, Israel’s Supreme Court has tasked the government with evacuating all or parts of the illegal West Bank outpost called Amona. In 2006, the site became a symbol of the Israeli settler movement’...
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