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Lawfareby Loren Voss, Natalie Orpett11d 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.
Lawfareby Scott Shapiro11d 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...
Lawfareby Adam Segal, Matt Ferren12d ago
Over the past several months, a wave of stories has emerged about cyber operations from Iran-backed hackers targeting critical infrastructure.
Lawfareby Joe Khawam12d ago
On June 12, the Commerce Department issued an export control directive informing Anthropic that a license was required for the export of its Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models to any foreign...
Lawfareby Sam Hunter, Seamus Hughes13d ago
Large language models. Artificial general intelligence. Sentience. The singularity. All terms that a few years ago were barely in the lexicon.
Lawfareby Gabor Rona13d ago
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran issued its report on Sept. 17 concluding that U.S. air operations on Feb.
Lawfareby Jeremy Shapiro14d ago
Editor’s Note: Obama was excoriated for putting forth a “red line” warning against the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons and then, after a sarin attack that killed more than 1,000 people in...
Lawfareby Athena Smith15d ago
On Lawfare Daily, Roger Parloff spoke with Lee Gelernt about two upcoming D.C. Circuit arguments Gelernt will be making relating to the March 15, 2025, removals of 137 Venezuelans under the Alien...
Lawfareby Justin Sherman16d ago
On Sept. 23, the FBI disclosed it is investigating a claim from the hacking group ShinyHunters that it stole thousands of FBI employees’ personal information.
Lawfareby Eugenio Benincasa16d ago
Understanding what drives cyber operations—and, just as importantly, figuring out how to respond to them—often requires looking beyond individual threat actors or campaigns to the broader...
Lawfareby Tom Uren16d ago
Bring On the AI Lawsuits On Sept. 15, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent argued that frontier artificial intelligence (AI) labs should not be given liability exemptions.
Lawfareby Natalie Orpett, Julia Curlee, Ariane Tabatabai, Jen Patja16d ago
On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett is joined by Ariane Tabatabai and Julia Curlee.
Lawfareby Reed Shaw17d ago
It is no secret that the prediction market industry has “steamrolled” its federal watchdog. As the New York Times recently detailed, industry-connected Trump officials at the agency “shrunk its...
Lawfareby Scott Anderson, Julia Curlee, Natalie Orpett17d ago
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Executive Editor Natalie Orpett and Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee to talk through the week’s big news in national security, including: -...
Lawfareby Keshav Narayan17d ago
Some of the most consequential risks from frontier artificial intelligence (AI) may emerge before a model ever reaches the public.
Lawfareby Joy Gordon18d ago
The U.S. sanctions imposed on Cuba in 2026, particularly the severe escalation over the past several months, have been catastrophic.
Lawfareby Mykhailo Soldatenko18d ago
Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter—a crucial element of the post-World War II international legal order—prohibits the use of force against other states unless the UN Security Council...
Lawfareby Cristian Trout, Rune Kvist, Rajiv Dattani19d ago
Managing frontier artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) growing risks needs an owner. Common law liability as it stands will not suffice: Courts are slow and ill-equipped, and most cases end in...
Lawfareby Ignacio Cofone19d ago
Ask Google whether a Munich publishing house runs scams, and early this year its AI Overview would have answered yes—about that publisher and its subsidiary.
Lawfareby Ema Schumer20d ago
In March 2020, as a novel respiratory virus known as the coronavirus made its way across the globe, the governor of Puerto Rico declared a state of emergency, shuttering nonessential businesses and...
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