Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on October 13, 2026 on Just Security.

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• In the Russia-Ukraine War, Does Trump Know How to Play Cards? by Ambassador Steven Pifer
• Prize Courts Are Still Good Law. That Doesn’t Make Them a Good Idea. by Annie Brett and Cory Evans
• How Generative AI is Scaling Transnational Repression by Kate Pundyk, Siena Anstis and Marcus Michaelsen

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on October 12, 2026 on Just Security.

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• Hope – and Vigilance – on the Road to a Crimes Against Humanity Treaty by Leila Nadya Sadat and Akila RadhakrishnanGuantanamo Dispatch: All Four
• Defendants’ Confessions Are Now Suppressed in the 9/11 Case by Carol Rosenberg
• Boots Off Ballots: Troops and Elections, In Practice by Dan Herman and Devon Ombres

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.

Published on October 9, 2026 on Just Security.

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• The 9/11 Military Commission and Lessons of Recent History by Benjamin R. Farley
• A Better Path for Peace and Security? Focus on Dignity. by Leanne Erdberg Steadman and Peter J. Quaranto
• This Back-to-School Season, Create Bully-Bot Free Zones for Children and Teenagers by Leah A. Plunkett