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Filling the Accountability Gap in AI Governance Series

As the risks of artificial intelligence continue to mount, the expert analysis in this series engages the fundamental question of what ought to happen when AI risks manifest into…

The Mythos of Digital Sovereignty

AI models such as Anthropic's Claude Mythos raise questions about access to frontier AI and institutional capacity.
Uniformed U.S. soldiers, heads out of frame with their backs to the camera, stand in a line with their hands clasped behind their backs.

The Moral Cost of Killing on Command

The U.S. government has a special responsibility to not impose avoidable harm to those who will carry out Nidal Hasan's execution.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, wearing a blue suit and blue-striped tie, stands on a stage against an American Flag backdrop beside a podium bearing a crest with a bald eagle in the center labeled "Department of War - United States of America."

Guantanamo Dispatches: Pentagon Reducing Rank of Top Military Commission Lawyers

An order from Secretary Hegseth will lower the ranks of the top two Guantanamo military commission lawyers starting in January.
A sign marks the location of a polling place as residents vote in the state's primary election on August 11, 2026 in Madison, Wisconsin.

Boots Off Ballots: Troops and Elections, In Practice

Soldiers should always remember that in a democracy, any domestic deployment order given on or around an election is suspect.
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Collection: Just Security 2026 Midterm Election Analysis and Commentary

This collection brings together analysis of the legal and policy issues surrounding the 2026 U.S. midterm elections published on Just Security.

The Just Security Podcast: How State and Local Governments Can Fight Back Against Authoritarianism

Erwin Chemerinsky and Aziz Huq discuss the powers that state and local governments can use to serve as a check against authoritarianism and federal overreach.
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The 9/11 Military Commission and Lessons of Recent History

The rulings that the accused 9/11 plotters' confessions are inadmissible are a reminder that the U.S. government fares better when it abides by the law.
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Just Security’s Artificial Intelligence Archive

Just Security's collection of 100+ articles analyzing the implications of AI for society, democracy, human rights, and warfare.
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How to Better Enforce the Darfur Arms Embargo

Rather than expand the arms embargo on Darfur, the UN Security Council should take steps that would give the existing embargo teeth.

Why the U.S. Must Prepare for Rapid Global Population Aging – and How

The United States lacks a strategy and coordinated agency efforts to adapt foreign and security policy to the rapid aging of the global population.
IMAGES (left to right): Natural disaster and its consequences (via Getty Images); In this picture taken on September 28, 2022, an internally displaced flood-affected family sits outside their tent at a makeshift tent camp in Jamshoro district of Sindh province (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images; Trees smolder and burn during the Dixie fire near Greenville, California on August 3, 2021. – Numerous fires are raging through the state’s northern forests, as climate change makes wildfire season longer, hotter and more devastating. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Just Security’s Climate Archive

A catalog of articles analyzing the diplomatic, political, legal, security, and humanitarian consequences of the international climate crisis.
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