A new historical study finds that Congress’s authority to investigate crime is “indispensable” to the system of checks and balances.

Former law professor David Clements urges local election officials to refuse to certify elections—and trains citizens to pressure them to do so.

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The plaintiffs have a second chance next week to prove the liability of military contractors.

An in-depth, in-the-weeds status update of the Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada cases, as well as the new indictments in Arizona and Wisconsin.

A review of Martin Wolf, “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism” (Penguin, 2023) 

Speculation about disinformation by users and the media can generate harmful political effects, amplifying existing biases.

A plan to incentivize companies to use secure cloud storage by ensuring that their interests are represented when the government comes for their data.

The UN secretary-general’s call for a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons presents challenges and opportunities for states. 

Frontier AI labs have teams dedicated to the public good, but unless those teams are independent, they will be largely ineffective.

Israel must learn from its 2006 war with Hezbollah to achieve its strategic objectives in this round of fighting.

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The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare.