Topics
Armed Conflict
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Lawfare Daily: Escalate to What End? Trump's Plan for the Iran War After the Midterms
Discussing the Iran war eight months in. -
Rational Security: The "Snifting Up to Boston" Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Ariane Tabatabai, and Joel Braunold talked through the week’s big international news stories. -
Technology, War, and the Limits of Innovation Power in the Middle East
Israel and Iran, in different ways, have each used innovation power to win on the battlefield. But neither has won the war.
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Congress
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Rational Security: The “Too Much Molly” Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Molly L. Roberts, and Molly E. Reynolds talk through the week’s big news in national security. -
Lawfare No Bull: Jack Smith Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee for Past Trump Probes
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Lawfare Daily: Mike Schmidt Talks CHIPS and U.S. Industrial Policy
In this episode of the Security Economics podcast series Mike Schmidt discusses the CHIPS Act.
Courts & Litigation
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How Judge Reyes Became the Lorax
A case about a golf course turns into a tale about the rule of law. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, October 23
Listen to the October 23 livestream as a podcast. -
Comey Tries to 86 the Seashells Case: Part I
As comical as the prosecution’s case appears, it may well go to trial.
Criminal Justice & Rule of Law
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Israel’s Destruction of Gaza and the Moral Decline of Zionism
A review of Omer Bartov, “Israel: What Went Wrong?” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026) -
Comey Tries to 86 the Seashells Case: Part I
As comical as the prosecution’s case appears, it may well go to trial. -
Comey Tries to 86 the Seashells Case: Part II
Two pending motions could expose the government’s investigation to scrutiny well before trial
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Cybersecurity & Tech
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Scaling Laws Roadshow at Univ. of Oregon: AI and State Governments with Nik Blosser
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A Rejoinder to Healey and Snyder: Engaging on Stability
Responding to a recent piece by Jay Healey and Jack Snyder on cyber persistence theory. -
OpenAI's Kazoo-Grade Spying Incident
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.
Democracy & Elections
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Lawfare Daily: What We're Worried About for the Elections
Lawfare contributors highlight different potential threats to election security and integrity. -
The Unhidden Hand
How Russia’s Greatest Returns From 2016 Came From the President It Helped Elect -
Proposed Rules for the Use of Force at or Near Election Sites
Placing troops at the polls is illegal, but steps can be taken to secure the spirit of the law if not the letter.
Executive Branch
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How Judge Reyes Became the Lorax
A case about a golf course turns into a tale about the rule of law. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, October 23
Listen to the October 23 livestream as a podcast. -
Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, October 23
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation surrounding the Trump administration.
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Foreign Relations & International Law
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Can Hungary Derussify Its Electric Power Sector?
Natural gas gets the headlines, but Russian nuclear fuel powers nearly half the country’s grid. -
Chemical Security Is National Security
The United States has halted funding for finding and destroying chemical weapons, putting critical work at risk. -
Israel’s Destruction of Gaza and the Moral Decline of Zionism
A review of Omer Bartov, “Israel: What Went Wrong?” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026)
Intelligence
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The Unhidden Hand
How Russia’s Greatest Returns From 2016 Came From the President It Helped Elect -
Lawfare Daily: The Spy Who Changed the Cold War in the Middle East
How did a Cold War intelligence coup change the Middle East? -
Production, Persuasion, and Power: How Generative and Agentic AI Are Transforming Influence Operations
Generative AI can increase the quantity and quality of malign foreign influence campaigns. However, questions remain as to whether these campaigns influence public opinion.
States & Localities
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The Forensic Gap in AI Safety Laws
State AI laws require developers to report safety incidents—but not what investigation follows or what evidence they must keep. -
Lawfare Daily: ‘A Whole Other Country,’ with Zoe Kurland and Terence O’Rourke
Discussing the secessionist movement in the mid-1990s called the “Republic of Texas.” -
Lawfare Daily: The National Guard in Washington, D.C.
Surveillance & Privacy
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The Immigration Enforcement Hydra Without a Kill Switch
Automated immigration enforcement sidesteps institutional accountability and does so with no kill switch. -
The Law Can’t Keep Up With Flock’s AI Surveillance
Flock promised to read license plates. It built surveillance that can track dissenters—and the law hasn’t caught up. -
Zombie Formalism in Luxembourg
A CJEU ruling on driving-app data and online pornography quietly guts the EU's Section 230 equivalent—and the court owes Europe an explanation it hasn't given.
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Terrorism & Extremism
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The Rising Islamic State Threat to Europe and the West
The Islamic State’s North African affiliate is building a logistical corridor from the Sahel to Spain. -
The Mercenary Exception That Never Existed
Why Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice ruling in Operation Trapiche matters beyond one terrorism case. -
Lawfare Daily: A Progress Report on the War on Terrorism with Peter Bergen
Peter Bergen discusses his new book “All the Presidents' Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America's War on Terror.”
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