Dispatch: In ‘Fake News’ Ban Hearing, Trump Is His Own DOJ’s Worst Enemy
Lawfareby Molly Roberts4h ago
“The First Amendment in action!” says U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly when proceedings in Cable News Network, Inc. v.
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top 79%Why the U.S. Military Has Never Threatened Civilian Governance
Lawfareby Loren Voss8h ago
Military firings, removals from promotion lists, and early retirements have rarely, if ever, been in the headlines as much as they have been over the past year.
The Cyber Corps: Ukraine’s Least Understood Cyber Actor
Lawfareby Stefan Soesanto1d ago
By the summer of 2024, the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR) was one of the closest-watched actors in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Rational Security: The “Too Much Molly” Edition
Lawfareby Scott Anderson, Molly Roberts, Molly Reynolds, Benjamin Wittes1d ago
This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Editor in Chief and cohost emeritus Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Senior Editor Molly L.
The AI Model Distillation Paradox
Lawfareby Lisa Klaassen1d ago
On Sept. 1, the Department of Justice filed its brief for the artificial intelligence (AI) companies’ right to appropriate and reuse your work—which it called a “statement of interest”—in OpenAI’s...
A Case Study in Pivoting: Investigating Hacked and Leaked Data on a Budget
Lawfareby Ceren Fitoz2d ago
In September 2022, a hacktivist group known as Guacamaya, which targets “extractive industries, military, and law enforcement” throughout Latin America, breached the email servers of Mexico’s...
Citizens’ Assemblies in AI Governance: An Interview With Audrey Tang
Lawfareby Audrey Tang, Kevin Frazier2d ago
Popular demand for artificial intelligence (AI) regulation has surged in recent months. What sort of regulation and by which actor or actors remains an open question.
How to Make an AI Deal With China: Trade Throttling for Pacing
Lawfareby Simon Goldstein, Peter Salib3d ago
Over the past few days, the leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI all called for slowing down the pace of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) development.
The Law Can’t Keep Up With Flock’s AI Surveillance
Lawfareby Matthew Cavedon, Laura Bondank-Harmon3d ago
It’s a windy day on the shore of Lake Michigan, and Maria is headed downtown from her home in Dolton, Illinois.
The President Doesn’t Have Unlimited Power to Impose Import Bans
Lawfareby Ilya Somin4d ago
President Trump recently tried to use Section 338 of the notorious Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 to ban several categories of Canadian imports outright, as well as to impose tariffs on others.
Production, Persuasion, and Power: How Generative and Agentic AI Are Transforming Influence Operations
Lawfareby Renée DiResta4d ago
Iranian state propagandists have been using Claude to draft the doctrine for their influence campaigns—and to plan the Supreme Leader’s funeral.
The Week That Was
Lawfareby Athena Smith6d ago
The latest episode of “Deportation, Inc.: The Rise of the Immigration Enforcement Economy" examined how United States immigration enforcement, a rapidly growing multi-billion-dollar industry shaped...
The Next Anti-democratic Threat From the Supreme Court
Lawfareby James Goodwin, Wendy Wagner7d ago
Few things concerned the drafters of the U.S. Constitution more than the concentration of political power in any one governmental institution.
Nazi Women in Court
Lawfareby Kim Christian Priemel7d ago
Few people could name even a handful of female perpetrators of Nazi-era crimes. Among those who have gained at least some notoriety are Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, the leader of the National Socialist...
"Rogue" AI Isn't Going Anywhere
Lawfareby Tom Uren7d ago
OpenAI found dozens of examples of its agents acting in undesirable ways while reviewing recent agent behaviour, according to Reuters.
A Warning for Frontier AI Model Governance
Lawfareby Mailyn Fidler, Matt Kristoffersen8d ago
Frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model governance has arrived on Capitol Hill. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.)
Rational Security: The “Techs Appeal” Edition
Lawfareby Scott Anderson, Anna Bower, Tyler McBrien, Michael Feinberg8d ago
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Managing Editor Tyler McBrien and Senior Editors Anna Bower and Michael Feinberg to talk through the week’s big news in national security...
2025 Civilian Casualties Report Reveals U.S. Civilian Protection Gaps
Lawfareby Madison Hunke, Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen, Anna Zahn8d ago
In late August, the Department of Defense released its annual report on civilian harm from U.S. military operations in 2025, acknowledging that the U.S.
The Insurrection Act Is No Exception to the Troops-at-Polls Ban
Lawfareby Loren Voss, Natalie Orpett9d ago
For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held, with very limited exception. The statute, now codified at 18 U.S.C.
Introducing ‘Posting Through the Singularity’
Lawfareby Scott Shapiro9d ago
I took the New York bar exam in late July 1990, at the Jacob Javits Center. The exam rooms were cavernous: desk after desk inside the freezing convention halls, row upon row until they receded to a...