The Week That Was
Lawfareby Athena Smith20d ago
As part of Lawfare’s Sept. 11 essay collection, Natalie Orpett discussed the torture of detainees following 9/11 and why it still matters today.
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top 69%What Can Be Done About Iran’s Closure of Hormuz?
Lawfareby Liron Libman21d ago
On June 25, Iran attacked a merchant ship passing through Oman’s waters in the Strait of Hormuz. The attack happened after the U.S.
The New Arctic
Lawfareby Tiziana Melchiorre21d ago
The Arctic has become a hot topic in geopolitics, and thus a more frequent subject for commentators on international relations.
Zombie Formalism in Luxembourg
Lawfareby Michael FitzGerald22d ago
On June 16, 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down a controversial judgment in Coyote System v.
Rational Security: The “Worlds Colliding” Edition
Lawfareby Scott Anderson, Kevin Frazier, Roger Parloff, Ariane Tabatabai22d ago
This week, Scott sat down with his colleagues Lawfare Senior Editors Kevin Frazier and Roger Parloff, and Lawfare Contributing Editor and Vice President of Research, Security and Defense at the...
Latin America’s Long Game: Nuclear Disarmament in the Age of AI
Lawfareby Marcel Anduiza22d ago
Latin America built the world’s first nuclear-free zone in 1967, and ever since, it has been at the forefront of innovation in nuclear diplomacy, responsible international behavior, and...
The Forensic Gap in AI Safety Laws
Lawfareby Christopher LaRoche23d ago
A trio of state-level laws has expanded the reach of government regulators over the United States’ artificial intelligence (AI) industry.
You Don't Have to Sell It to Be Bound by It: GPAI and the EU AI Act
Lawfareby Eliška Andrš23d ago
In July, OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face’s systems. OpenAI's recently released technical report on the incident revealed that an “internal-only research model had the broadest confirmed...
Why We Opted Not to Work at the AI Labs
Lawfareby Bharat Chandar, Kevin Frazier24d ago
Knowledge is power. That’s especially true of knowledge of artificial intelligence (AI)—what it is, how it works, how to use it, and how it is developing over time.
Laundering Federal Election Interference in the Midterms
Lawfareby Julia Curlee24d ago
LANSING, MICHIGAN — NOV. 3, 11:40 pm The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posts a statement to its website at 9:15 pm—while polls in the Upper Peninsula are still open.
9/11’s Legacy of Torture
Lawfareby Natalie Orpett25d ago
In 2005, President George W. Bush assured the American people that “any activity we conduct, is within the law.
25 Years of Mass Surveillance is Enough
Lawfareby Cindy Cohn, Bruce Schneier25d ago
One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders—to mass...
The 25th Anniversary of the 2001 AUMF
Lawfareby Jack Goldsmith25d ago
Editor's note: This piece is cross-posted with "Executive Functions." Twenty-five years ago today, Congress passed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which President Bush...
America's Driver's License Breach is a National Security Disaster
Lawfareby Tom Uren25d ago
America's Drivers Licence Breach is a National Security Disaster Last week, Krebs On Security broke the story of a newly launched dark web service calling itself Nexus that was selling access to...
Terrorism’s Second Act
Lawfareby Peter Beck, Seamus Hughes, Camden26d ago
On Nov. 4, 2025, Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy pleaded guilty to stabbing a corrections officer with a weapon he fashioned from a jailhouse desk.
Misunderstanding 9/11
Lawfareby Daniel Byman26d ago
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the United States has succeeded in preventing another mass-casualty jihadist attack on the homeland.
The Week That Was
Lawfareby Sarah Willrich27d ago
As part of Lawfare's Sept. 11 essay collection, former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson argued that now, 25 years after 9/11 transformed how the U.S.
Homeland Security 25 Years Later: Time to Rethink and Rebuild?
Lawfareby Jeh Johnson28d 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...
The Unexpected Emergence of the EU as a U.S. Counterterrorism Partner
Lawfareby Kenneth Propp28d 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...
Ordinary Origins: How 9/11 Built Today's Immigration Enforcement Machine
Lawfareby Chinmayi Sharma28d 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...