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Lawfareby Michel Paradis, Nick Lewin28d ago
[Editor's note: This piece is part of Lawfare's collection "9/11 at 25: The Legal Architecture of the War on Terror, Twenty-Five Years On," examining how 9/11 remains—or doesn't—embedded in current...
Lawfareby Paul Rosenzweig28d ago
[Editor's note: This piece is part of Lawfare's collection "9/11 at 25: The Legal Architecture of the War on Terror, Twenty-Five Years On," examining how 9/11 remains—or doesn't—embedded in current...
Lawfareby Benjamin Press29d ago
The Department of Defense has long been a mover of markets, but, over the past year, it has become a direct investor in them.
Lawfareby Sara Shah, Tal Feldman29d ago
In 2024, U.S. officials shut down a Chinese-owned data facility near a nuclear missile base in Wyoming, fearing Beijing’s surveillance.
Lawfareby Isobel Porteous, Matt Kaplan9 Sept 2026
Right now, a 31-satellite constellation orbits Earth in medium Earth orbit, 20,000 kilometers above us.
Lawfareby Michael McLaughlin, Harvey Rishikof9 Sept 2026
On July 13, the Department of Defense suspended the central mechanism it had spent more than five years building to secure the defense industrial base (DIB).
Lawfareby Scott Anderson8 Sept 2026
For the past six months, Lawfare has quietly been doing something a little out of the ordinary. Instead of just covering national security litigation, we’ve been the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit...
Lawfareby Ibrahim Dagher8 Sept 2026
Washington has spent the summer alarmed by Chinese artificial intelligence (AI). After the release of Kimi K3—a Chinese model that pulled within reach of the U.S.
Lawfareby Sarah Willrich5 Sept 2026
Molly Roberts broke down the Supreme Court’s decision allowing the construction of the White House ballroom to proceed, holding that the plaintiff likely did not have standing to sue.
Lawfareby Jonathan Hafetz4 Sept 2026
Suspending habeas corpus represents one of the most momentous steps the government can take, an elimination of a centuries-old legal protection against wrongful detention, celebrated by the framers...
Lawfareby Molly Roberts4 Sept 2026
Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson, dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision to stay a preliminary injunction against implementation of President Trump's executive order on mail-in voting, wrote...
Lawfareby Chinmayi Sharma3 Sept 2026
On July 16, the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3—a model that independent measures place within one generation of U.S. frontier models.
Lawfareby Scott Anderson, Eric Columbus, Molly Roberts, Renée DiResta3 Sept 2026
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Editors Molly Roberts and Eric Columbus, and Contributing Editor Renée DiResta, to talk through the week’s big domestic news stories...
Lawfareby Nicholas Weaver3 Sept 2026
In 2021, President Biden signed the Secure Equipment Act. This act created the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) covered list, a list of equipment that the FCC would no longer approve...
Lawfareby Barath Raghavan, Bruce Schneier2 Sept 2026
In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent conducting a routine task at a company hit a snag, tried to solve it, and soon ended up deleting the company’s database along with all of its...
Lawfareby Justin Levitt2 Sept 2026
The California Supreme Court heard argument on Aug. 24 about warrants to seize ballots from 2025’s election to redraw the state’s congressional map, sought in February and March by Riverside County...
Lawfareby Jason Healey, Jack Snyder2 Sept 2026
The United States is now eight years into a military strategy and academic theory built, in part, on a daring view of how to achieve stability in cyberspace. The U.S.
Lawfareby Molly Roberts1 Sept 2026
Can the courts block a “Ballroom, one with Bomb Shelters, a State of the Art Hospital and Medical Facilities, Protective Partitioning, Top Secret Military Installations, Structures, and Equipment...
Lawfareby Mark Pollack1 Sept 2026
In late February, a routine contract dispute between the Pentagon and the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic escalated into something far more extraordinary.
Lawfareby Aaron Cooper, Philip Chertoff1 Sept 2026
On Aug. 12, President Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum titled “Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime,” which directs the departments of Justice...
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