Not participating in NATO would undermine the alliance—and U.S. foreign policy

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

The CRA has introduced a novel, and potentially quite worrying, approach to cybersecurity legislation.

While legislative reforms would be helpful, a strong case can be made that the existing language of the act should be read narrowly, for both constitutional and practical reasons.

Introducing a new series on the limitations, drawbacks, and dangers of domestic deployments, from Lawfare and Protect Democracy

The response conflates self-determination as a right to statehood with statehood itself.

A review of David Rohde, “Where Tyranny Begins: The Justice Department, the FBI, and the War on Democracy” (W.W. Norton, 2024).

A roundup of the candidates’ statements across seven national security themes.

What Congress intended with Section 230 has nothing to do with what the First Amendment protects, and courts should stop implying otherwise.

The United States needs better ways to understand success in cyberspace. Doing so is now within reach, with the right, top-down approach.