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Today's Headlines and Commentary
A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to stop its blanket detention policy for asylum seekers, according to the Washington Post. The government will now have to release more than 1,000 individuals ... -
Fighting Tunnels
PDF Version Review of Daphne Richemond-Barak’s “Underground Warfare” (Oxford, 2018). *** -
The Week That Will Be
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Wars of None: AI, Big Data, and the Future of Insurgency
Editor’s Note: The rapid pace of technological innovation is changing the nature of warfare, and futurists are busy spinning out scenarios of a U.S.-China clash in twenty years involving nano-technology ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The Supreme Court took center stage this week after it released a number of highly-anticipated decisions and Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement from the bench. On Tuesday, the high court vo... -
The Lawfare Podcast: Stephanie Leutert on the Other Southern Border
With the media and political commentators focused on family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, few are paying attention to how developments along Mexico's southern border affect the United States. On ... -
A Glimpse into Private-Sector Cybersecurity in Japan
PDF Version Review of Shinichi Yokohama’s “Keiei to Saiba Sekyuriti—Dejitalu Rejilienshi [Business Management and Cybersecurity - Digital Resiliency for Executives]” (Nikkei BP, 2018). *** -
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Foreign-Funded NGOs, Political Power, and Democratic Legitimacy
Editor’s Note: Ron Krebs and James Ron argued in their Foreign Policy Essay in May that countries should welcome foreign-funded NGOs and contended that in Israel in particular they do considerable good. ... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The Justice Department Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton email investigation continued to make headlines this week. On Saturday, Carrie Cordero, Quinta Jurecic, Marty Lederm... -
The Case for Pragmatism and an Opportunity for Sino-US Leadership: Protecting Financial Stability Against Cyber Threats
Geopolitical tensions are on the rise worldwide, including between China and the United States. This will make multilateral cooperation and engagement generally, and diplomatic efforts focusing on more c... -
Predicting War
PDF Version Review of Lawrence Freedman’s “The Future of War: A History” (Public Affairs, 2017). *** -
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America’s Terrorism Problem Doesn’t End with Prison—It Might Just Begin There
Editor’s Note: Israel, France, the United Kingdom, and other countries that have faced a persistent terrorism threat have found that putting terrorists in jail does not solve the problem. In jail, terror... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
The week started off on a historic note as President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jung Un met on Tuesday for the first time. The two leaders signed a joint statement at the end of the summit,... -
Internet Platforms: Observations on Speech, Danger, and Money
Public demands for internet platforms to intervene more aggressively in online content are steadily mounting. Calls for companies like YouTube and Facebook to fight problems ranging from “fake news” to v... -
Spring 2018 Issue of Harvard National Security Journal
The Harvard National Security Journal’s spring issue, published last week, has five articles that may be of interest to Lawfare readers. -
The Week That Will Be
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Drone Blowback: Much Ado about Nothing?
Editor’s Note: One of the most common, and seemingly convincing, critiques of the drone program is that it produces "blowback"—each miss that kills civilians, or even each hit that kills a militant, ange... -
The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Quinta Jurecic kicked off the week by posting two letters sent by the Trump legal team to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in June 2017 and January 2018. Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes offered their thoughts ...
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