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Syria’s decade-long civil war has left the state and economy shells of their former selves. But a new industry is stepping in to fill the…

Barton Gellman is a long-time national security reporter for the Washington Post, for The Atlantic and elsewhere. His latest article and Atlantic cover story is…

On March 18, 2019, the U.S. conducted an airstrike in Baghuz, Syria, as part of its battle against the Islamic State. Two bombs were dropped…

We talk a lot about how content moderation involves a lot of hard decisions and trade-offs—but at the end of the day, someone has to…

This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare contributor and University of Kentucky law professor Jonathan Shaub! They sat down to discuss the week’s national security…

For the past year, the country of Ethiopia has been embroiled in a brutal civil war. At the center of it is Tigray, a region…

COVID-19 has shown us all that pandemics aren’t just a public health issue, but a national security one as well. Are America’s national security institutions prepared…

It’s a scary time along the Ukrainian-Russian border these days. Russian troops are amassing in alarming numbers, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared recently that…

Late last month, Apple sued the Israeli technology firm NSO Group under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That’s the federal law that criminalizes computer…

This week on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with some of the people behind…