lawfaremedia.orgadded August 2026
Lawfareby Nadwa Al-Dawsari19h ago
Editor’s Note: The emergence of the Houthis as a major player in the current U.S. and Israeli war against Iran demonstrates, once again, how formidable this group has become.
Lawfareby Athena Smith1d ago
Molly Roberts described the events in the courtroom during Cable News Network, Inc. v. Trump, a hearing to determine whether the temporary restraining order U.S.
Lawfareby Molly Roberts2d ago
“The First Amendment in action!” says U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly when proceedings in Cable News Network, Inc. v.
Lawfareby Loren Voss2d 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.
Lawfareby Stefan Soesanto3d ago
By the summer of 2024, the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR) was one of the closest-watched actors in the Russia-Ukraine war.
Lawfareby Scott Anderson, Molly Roberts, Molly Reynolds, Benjamin Wittes3d ago
This week, Scott sat down with Lawfare Editor in Chief and cohost emeritus Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Senior Editor Molly L.
Lawfareby Lisa Klaassen3d 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...
Lawfareby Ceren Fitoz4d 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...
Lawfareby Audrey Tang, Kevin Frazier4d 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.
Lawfareby Simon Goldstein, Peter Salib5d 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.
Lawfareby Matthew Cavedon, Laura Bondank-Harmon5d ago
It’s a windy day on the shore of Lake Michigan, and Maria is headed downtown from her home in Dolton, Illinois.
Lawfareby Ilya Somin6d 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.
Lawfareby Renée DiResta6d ago
Iranian state propagandists have been using Claude to draft the doctrine for their influence campaigns—and to plan the Supreme Leader’s funeral.
Lawfareby Athena Smith8d 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...
Lawfareby James Goodwin, Wendy Wagner9d ago
Few things concerned the drafters of the U.S. Constitution more than the concentration of political power in any one governmental institution.
Lawfareby Kim Christian Priemel9d 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...
Lawfareby Tom Uren9d ago
OpenAI found dozens of examples of its agents acting in undesirable ways while reviewing recent agent behaviour, according to Reuters.
Lawfareby Mailyn Fidler, Matt Kristoffersen10d ago
Frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model governance has arrived on Capitol Hill. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.)
Lawfareby Scott Anderson, Anna Bower, Tyler McBrien, Michael Feinberg10d 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...
Lawfareby Madison Hunke, Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen, Anna Zahn10d 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.
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