Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Lawfare, happy birthday to you.  This week marked the blog's third birthday, as Ben noted. Another milestone, this one flagged by Ritika...

A little less than a year ago, I announced a very cautious experiments with comments on Lawfare---putting a Facebook comments box on each post. We now have enough experience with the experiment to determ...

We had an enormous traffic surge today---thanks to a link to one of Jack's posts from the front page of Huffington Post. More than 18,000 people have been on Lawfare this morning, a fact which offers a g...

Three years ago today, Jack, Bobby and I launched Lawfare. On its launch, it had no staff, three writers, and a grand total of nine visits. I think it's safe to say that while all three of us expected t...

There is little sense in rounding up all of Lawfare-ers' Syria-related posts, as our fearless Managing Editor already did so.

The Brookings Institution has launched a new podcast series entitled the "Brookings Cafeteria." The first guest is yours truly. The podcast, which will feature a discussion with a different Brookings sch...

I am hereby declaring war on the law review. Yes, I know, students need law review service to get the good clerkships and jobs. And yes, I know, academics need law review publications for their tenure f...

Many thanks to everyone who expressed concern, offered assistance, and donated funds to help us resolve our recent technical problems. I'm pleased---and very relieved---to announce that as of yesterday, ...

What with the declassified NSA documents and the 9/11 commission hearings, it's been a busy week. Oh, and there was that whole site host-problem, thanks to Bluehost.

Another day, another major outage caused by our soon-to-be-former hosting company, Bluehost. Our sincere apologies. Ritika and I just got off the phone with Bluehost, which acknowledges that for the seco...

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In breaking news, Bradley Manning, 25, has been dishonorably discharged and sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Apologies to all for the site outages today. It has been a very frustrating day---and not the first in recent weeks. I wish I could claim this was some zero-day cyber-attack for which no non-profit web ...

Edward Snowden and the NSA continued to dominate Lawfare this week. Matt mused on how one might measure the value of the NSA surveillance programs. Lawfare hosted a debate between Carrie Cordero and St...

We are looking for an undergraduate or a recent graduate to intern with us during the fall semester, and will be accepting applications until the end of the month. The announcement below will go up on th...

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So much for August being an "off-month." You can probably guess what issues dominated Lawfare's agenda this week. The U.S. issued a global threat alert, which prompted closures of many diplomatic posts ...