The U.S. and Lithuania Clash Over Belarusian Potash
The critical mineral has driven a wedge between Washington and Vilnius, as the Trump administration…
Lawfare Daily: Vinh Nguyen, Elham Tabassi, and Kat Duffy on How to Design a Better AI Regulator
Discussing the FINRA-style AI regulator reportedly under White House review.
Chasing Surveillance Powers, Canada Risks the CLOUD Act Deal It Needs
Bill C-22’s anti-security powers could cost Canada the tool it needs most to modernize investigations…
Reviving Article 109: A Legal Path Out of Security Council Paralysis
Eighty-one years after Hiroshima, a look at the legal contradiction embedded in the UN’s founding—and…
A Political History of the Internet
A review of Fiona M. Alexander, Laura DeNardis, Nanette S. Levinson, and Francesca Musiani, “Geopolitics…
Data Theft Extortion Is Booming! Hooray!
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.
Scaling Laws: AI Consciousness with Anil Seth
Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Sussex Centre for…
Exxon v. CIMEX and the Erosion of Foreign Sovereign Immunity
What Congress giveth, Congress can take away.
Who Writes the AI Constitution?
Documents encoding AI models’ values are alignment’s highest-leverage point—regulating their contents hits the First Amendment.