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Early Edition: March 25, 2026

Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: IRAN WAR  Iran…
NY Corrections officers and criminal justice reform activist exchange words during a rally outside of City Hall before the start of a City Council hearing on Intro 549 on September 28, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Criminal Justice Reform Didn’t End — It Decentralized

While federal rhetoric and policy have shifted sharply in a punitive direction, state governments continue to serve as the primary engines of criminal justice reform.
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Energy Security is National Security: Fixing America’s Incoherent Energy Policies

In a world where conflict abroad reverberates rapidly through global energy systems, “energy dominance” cannot be defined narrowly as maximizing fossil fuel output.
Children and adults hold candles and portraits of people killed in the conflict during a "March of Return" in Aleppo, Syria, on December 22, 2025. Displaced residents organized the event to commemorate the 2016 evacuation of eastern Aleppo and to mark the recent change in government following the collapse of the Bashar al-Assad administration. (Photo by Hibatullah Barakat / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images)

Transitional Justice in Post-Assad Syria: A Transformative Framework for Accountability and Reform

In designing an effective transitional justice framework in Syria, policymakers must employ careful sequencing, transparency, and broad participation in implementation.

Early Edition: March 24, 2026

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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (L) and Admiral Charles Bradford "Brad" Cooper II, Commander of US Central Command, speak in front of podiums during a press conference

How Iran, Anthropic-DoD Dispute Show the Need for Protective AI

The Iran War and the public rupture between DoD and Anthropic point to a fundamental imbalance in current military AI.
Pete Hegseth stands at a Pentagon podium during a press briefing on ongoing U.S. and Israeli military operations in Iran, speaking in front of a blue backdrop with the Pentagon emblem​.

Hegseth Didn’t Revive an Ancient Warrior Ethos. He Repeated an American Pattern.

Hegseth's "no quarter" statement indicates how some in the Pentagon perceive the Iran war. "No quarter" language in US history has appeared when war turns colonial or racial.
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The Court Gutted Congress’s War Power. It’s Time to Give It Back.

A 1983 Supreme Court ruling eviscerated the law allowing Congress to end war. The Iran strikes make that a five-alarm emergency.

Early Edition: March 23, 2026

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Digest of Recent Articles on Just Security (Mar. 14-20, 2026)

U.S.-Israel-Iran War • U.S. Lethal Strikes / Drug Trafficking • Abu Ghraib • Diplomacy • Inter-American Court of Human Rights • Gender and Security • Emerging Technologies…

Fighting an Illegal War and Fighting a War Illegally: the Link Between Regime Change Operations and International Humanitarian Law Violations

The relationship between regime change and IHL is of inherent tension, incentivizing battlefields where the law is viewed as an obstacle rather than an essential constraint.
Four women in colorful garb and headwraps work in a flat, barren field, with lines of trucks full of what appear to be soldiers or fighters in the distance.

The Risks of Gender-Blind Conflict Analysis

The relevance of women to conflict, democratic resilience, and peacebuilding is evidence-based, yet they are commonly overlooked in forecasting and response.
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