Just Security: Out Loud

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

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

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 8, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• How to Better Enforce the Darfur Arms Embargo by Mutasim Ali and Yonah Diamond
• Why the U.S. Must Prepare for Rapid Global Population Aging – and How by Jane Buchanan
• No Emergency Exception: The Ban on Troops at the Polls Was Built for Crises by Joseph Nunn
  
  
  

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 7, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• Just Security’s Russia–Ukraine War Archive by Clara Apt and Tess Graham
• Guantanamo Dispatch: Another Confession Is Ruled Inadmissible in 9/11 Case
  by Carol Rosenberg
• Fear of China’s AI Is the New Missile Gap
  by Ben Vagle

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 6, 2026 on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security:

• Working Backwards: Inside the Trump Justice Department’s Conclusion-First Approach to Civil Rights by Regan Rush and Megan Marks