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Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 18
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation surrounding the Trump administration. -
Rational Security: The “Worlds Colliding” Edition
Scott Anderson, Kevin Frazier, Roger Parloff, and Ariane Tabatabai talked through the week’s big national security news stories. -
Laundering Federal Election Interference in the Midterms
The administration has turned an unfixable fact—Chinese parts in nearly every U.S. voting machine—into a license to contest any election it loses. -
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 11
Listen to the Sept. 11 podcast as a livestream. -
Lawfare Daily: Sept. 11, 2001, 25 Years Later
The Lawfare team talks about how Sept. 11 shaped the U.S. national security apparatus and the guests’ careers. -
Homeland Security 25 Years Later: Time to Rethink and Rebuild?
The DHS constructed by Congress in 2002 is now outdated, reviled by many, and was flawed from the start. Time to rethink and rebuild. -
Ordinary Origins: How 9/11 Built Today's Immigration Enforcement Machine
Post-9/11 data-sharing systems built for security quietly became the infrastructure for today’s automated immigration enforcement. -
Assessing the Legal Bases for the Defense Department’s Equity Stakes
The Pentagon has taken equity stakes in key suppliers without ever stating a legal basis—and its likely justifications don’t hold up. -
Rational Security: The “Fifth Anniversary Hot Take Takedown” Edition
Scott Anderson celebrated the fifth anniversary of Rational Security 2.0 with the return of co-hosts emeriti Shane Harris, Quinta Jurecic, and Benjamin Wittes. -
Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, September 11
Join the Lawfare team at 4 pm ET for a discussion of the litigation surrounding the Trump administration. -
GPS and the Limits of Control
What AI can learn from Selective Availability, the governance technology once used to pace GPS. -
Rulemaking by Memo: Why CMMC Suspension Deserves Review
DOD CIO suspended the backbone of defense supply-chain security with a memo. Under new case law, it may not survive the courts—or the threat.


