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Process as Punishment: An American History of Political Spectacle
American political theater isn’t new. The House Un-American Activities Committee operated for decades—until targets learned to fight back. -
Escalation: Boiling The Frog
Listen to the seventh and final episode of Escalation, a narrative podcast on U.S.-Ukraine relations. -
Should American Spies Steal Commercial Secrets?
U.S. intelligence agencies have never stolen foreign commercial and technology secrets. It’s time to rethink that taboo. -
Lawfare Daily: Trials of the Trump Administration, April 11
Listen to the April 11 Lawfare Live. -
The UAE’s Trump-Era AI Strategy
The Trump administration should beware mounting Emirati courtship for more U.S. AI chips. -
The Situation: Formalist Delusions Confront Lawless Realities
Why would anyone grant these people a presumption of regularity? -
The Week That Was
Your weekly summary of everything on the site. -
Taming the Dogs of War – U.S. Efforts to Control Proxy Forces
A review of Erica L. Gaston's “Illusions of Control: Dilemmas in Managing U.S. Proxy Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria” (Columbia University Press, 2024). -
MAGA's NSA Purge Will Get Messy
The latest edition of the Seriously Risky Business cybersecurity newsletter, now on Lawfare. -
Lawfare Daily: The Golden Dome Missile Defense Program
Is the Golden Dome program feasible? -
Appointments, Removal, and the Unitary Executive Empowered
President Trump’s restructuring of the administrative state is unprecedented—what does Supreme Court precedent say about its legitimacy? -
Rational Security: The "Humphrey's Executor's Executor" Edition
Scott Anderson, Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic and James Pearce talked through the week's biggest national security news stories.
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