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 22, 2026 on Just Security.

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• Guantanamo Dispatches: Pentagon Reducing Rank of Top Military Commission Lawyers by Carol Rosenberg
• DHS’s AI Inventory Reveals the Limits of Federal AI Transparency Law by Rachel Levinson-Waldman and Eoghan Stafford

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 21, 2026 on Just Security.

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• Foreign Threats to U.S. Elections Are Maturing Faster Than the Defenses to Counter Them by Brian O’Neill
• Examining State-Level Legislation on Transnational Repression in the United States by Grady Vaughan, Ted R. Bromund, and Ariel Rawls
• Data Centers at War: The Defender’s Duty to Protect Civilians by Klaudia Klonowska and Michael Schmitt

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 20, 2026 on Just Security.

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• [R]evolution in the International Legal Order by Lisa Reinsberg and Jessica Peake
• Foreign Interference and the Democratic Self-Defense Trap: A European Perspective Going into the 2026 Midterms by Michael John-Hopkins and Rebecca Patterson

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 19, 2026 on Just Security.

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• Dissecting DOJ’s Letter to California Election Officials: Empty Threats of’ Criminal Liability by Samantha Trepel
• Guantanamo Dispatches: Military Psychiatrist Finds Cole Bombing Case Defendant Competent; Federal Judge Refuses to Intervene by Carol Rosenberg
• Can the Law Stop AI Hackers? by Bahrad Sokhansanj

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 16, 2026 on Just Security.

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• Guantanamo Dispatches: Four Possible Obstacles to Jury Selection in the USS Cole Case at Guantanamo Bay by Carol Rosenberg
• Just the Docs: Eight States Sue OpenAI, Alleging It Misled the Public About ChatGPT’s Safety by Matthew Nagle
• Lessons from U.S. Global Anti-Corruption Efforts and Opportunities Ahead by Richard Nephew
  
  
  

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 15, 2026 on Just Security.

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• De-transition: Northern Ireland and the Ongoing Challenges of Keeping the Peace by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons)
• Ethiopia’s Fragile Peace Has Broken – But This is Not the 2020-2022 Conflict by Lesley Anne Warner
• World Bank Group Doubles Down on Risky Strategy Despite Microlending Gaps by Amy Ekdawi

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 14, 2026 on Just Security.

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• U.S. Government Responds to Maduro’s Immunity Arguments by William S. Dodge
• Is the Case Challenging Trump’s Denial of Visas to Harvard Students Moot? (Yes and no.) by Marty Lederman
• Fueling Russia’s War: The Russian Diesel Deal and International Law by Michael Schmitt and Ryan Goodman

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