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The Federal AI Incident Registry: Standardizing Documentation and Oversight for Federal AI Systems
The federal government's AI systems are making life-altering decisions across benefits, law enforcement, and immigration with no consistent standards for how those systems are classified, documented, or reported when they fail.
Nathan Russell
Jun 3
The Limits of State Deepfake Laws Against Foreign Election Interference
Foreign adversaries are using AI to run industrial-scale disinformation operations against U.S. elections, and state-level criminal laws are no match for threat actors in Moscow and Beijing who will never see a courtroom.
Jonesy Strell
May 28
LLMs to Fill the Void: A Framework to Mitigate Forecasting Failures in U.S. Intelligence
The U.S. Intelligence Community has a long history of missing major global developments, and deploying large language models to handle the analytical grunt work could finally free human analysts to develop the forecasting tradecraft that has always been the job's most critical and most neglected skill.
Enaya Bokhari
May 28
The Case for Reversing the Ban on AI Rent Pricing in San Francisco
The DOJ's ban on AI-powered rental pricing tools like RealPage misdiagnoses the problem, treating market-responsive software as collusion while leaving San Francisco's real housing crisis completely unaddressed.
Alex Tapia
May 28
Regulating AI Chatbot Design to Reduce Addictive and Harmful Para-Social Relationships
AI chatbots are designed to agree with users, keep them engaged, and simulate human connection, and without enforceable federal standards around sycophancy, crisis response, and companion features, that design is already contributing to documented deaths and deepening mental health crises.
Jeanne d'Udekem d'Acoz
May 28


Tanks Aren't Dead Yet: The Drone Threat and the Future of Armored Warfare
Despite drone warfare's dominance on the Ukrainian battlefield, abandoning armor now could hand adversaries a decisive strategic advantage.
Braydon Murphy
Apr 21


Tough Love from America: The End of Managed Decline in the Atlantic Alliance
Trump's rhetoric is less a break from the past than the culmination of an unsustainable status quo.
Samuel Chen
Apr 2


Words Have Consequences: America, Europe, and the Cost of Credibility
Washington says it wants a stronger Europe, but it does everything to undermine it.
Leon Delaloye
Apr 2


Trump on Interventionism: Assessing Iran and Venezuela
Though critics argue Trump's foreign interventions in Venezuela and Iran contradict his "America First" doctrine, both cases reflect a coherent new model of limited, strategically motivated engagement.
Enaya Bokhari
Mar 21


After 20 Years, the UN Still Lacks a Definition and Gender Perspective on Terrorism
Without a concrete international definition of terrorism, women and gender-diverse communities are left uniquely vulnerable to both terrorist violence and the overreach of counter-terrorism strategies.
Allie Jacobs
Mar 7


Even After Some Time, the Trump Administration’s Venezuela Strategy Leaves Questions and Concerns
From narco-terrorism narratives to oil, force-first foreign policy in Venezuela has undermined the diplomacy needed to advance American interests
Leon Delaloye
Jan 16


The Trump Administration Should Think Twice About Ideological alignment in Europe
Trump's populist allies in Europe are inviting China and Russia through NATO's back door, and Washington must pay closer attention.
Leon Delaloye
Dec 19, 2025
Lead, Don’t lag: American Must Maintain First Mover Advantage in Militarized AI
"As AI transforms military capabilities, America faces a critical choice: lead in developing AI-enabled defense systems with proper oversight, or fall behind adversaries who won't hesitate to deploy them first.
Samuel Chen
Dec 19, 2025


Beijing's Proxy: How the DPRK's Military Aid to Russia Serves China's Taiwan Strategy
North Korea's arms pipeline to Russia isn't just about Ukraine: it's China preparing for Taiwan, and Washington needs to exploit the cracks in this axis before it's too late.
Paul Lee
Dec 19, 2025
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