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Lawfare Daily: Ask Us Anything About 2025
Lawfare contributors answer listener submitted questions. -
Rational Security: The “Inadequate Chicken Moved to Inferior Location” Special End-of-Year Edition
Scott Anderson sat down with Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower, and Tyler McBrien to talk over listener-submitted topics and object lessons for the annual end-of-year episode. -
Military Neutrality Is Fidelity
Fidelity to the Constitution requires officers to protect, not supplant, constitutional institutions. -
Foreign Terrorist Designations Pose Civil Liberties Concerns
Foreign Antifa designations risk enabling surveillance of domestic critics by creating a foreign nexus for expanded counterterrorism powers. -
The Military’s Social Media Purge
Nobody can tell what’s covered by the military’s newest standards for online speech. That’s the point. -
China’s AI Governance Ambitions and Their Implications for Free Expression
China is exporting its AI governance model; democracies must act now or risk letting others define the future of speech. -
The Situation: A Legal Puzzle to Ponder
What if I wanted to project an unflattering image of Kash Patel on the FBI building? -
Algorithmic Optimism, Democratic Reality
A review of Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders, “Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship” (The MIT Press, 2025). -
Rational Security: The “Chestbursters Roasting on an Open Fire” Edition
Scott Anderson, Alan Rozenshtein, and Ari Tabatabai talked through the week’s big national security news stories. -
A Political Earthquake in Ukraine
Zelensky folds to critics and sacks his ultra-powerful chief of staff. -
The Bondi Memo’s Quiet Rewriting of Domestic Terrorism Rules
A leaked directive recasts counterterrorism around “Antifa,” hollowing out post-Church Committee safeguards while the administration claims restraint. -
Why Zelensky Can’t Hold Elections Yet
As Trump pushes Ukrainians to go to the polls, consider the risks.
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