Can Frontier AI Labs Lawfully Agree to Pause?
Anthropic raised the possibility of a coordinated, verified AI development pause. Antitrust law might prevent…
What’s up with Trump’s Mail-In Voting Executive Order?
Agency actions and court decisions make it easier to understand how insidious, and how illegal,…
Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 26
Listen to the June 26 livestream as a podcast.
‘Nihilistic Violent Extremism’ Isn’t a Thing, and I’m Tired of Pretending It Is
The catch-all category is misleading and a mistake.
The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site.
Harsh Confinement
A review of W. Fitzhugh Brundage, “A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the…
Scaling Laws: “The God Test” AI as Cosmic Reckoning, with Robert Wright
Alan Rozenshtein, Research Director at Lawfare, spoke with Robert Wright—author of Nonzero, The Moral Animal,…
Open-Weight Model Advances Make the Mythos Debate Moot
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.
At a Mosque in San Diego, Trump’s Counterterrorism Strategy Falls Flat
The administration’s strategy trades an accurate assessment of the threat landscape for political rhetoric.