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 July 21, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• “Zero Evidence”: How Judges and Grand Juries Have Rejected the Trump Administration Efforts to Investigate and Prosecute by Dani Schulkin, Ryan Goodman, and Huzaifa Khan
• Merchant Mariners: Unseen in Peacetime and Forgotten in Conflict by U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral (ret.) Melissa Bert
• The State Department’s Campaign Against the ICC Rests on a Misunderstanding of How the Court Actually Works by Nema Milaninia

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 July 20, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Last week on Just Security

• Key Trump Deportation Strategies: Removing, Replacing, and Pressuring Immigration Judges by Meg Satterthwaite and Sang-Min Kim
• How Congress Can End Trump’s Iran War and Prevent the Next One by Brian Finucane and Tess Bridgeman

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 July 17, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• An Initial Readout of Trump’s Election-Interference Speech by Brian O’Neill
• In Context: Analyzing Secretary Rubio’s International Criminal Court Op-Ed by Tom Dannenbaum and Eliav Lieblich
• How to Choose Which Military Members to Hold Accountable for Illegal Boat Strikes by Daniel Maurer

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 July 16, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• After Colombia’s Presidential Election, What Next on Climate and Human Rights? By Camila Bustos
• Justice Gorsuch’s Slaughter Opinion is a Direct Threat to Congress
  By Jules Torti
• To Audition for the Role of Attorney General, Blanche Is Prosecuting to Please By Grant Tudor and Kristy Parker

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 July 15, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• W(h)ither Climate “Multilateralism”? by Sue Biniaz
• The Dangers of Florida’s New “Terrorist” Designations by Elly Page
• What does the Trump Administration Statement on Dismantling the ICC Really Mean? by Just Security

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 July 14, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Civilian Protection in the Age of Military AI: What Congress’s New Legislative Proposals Reveal About Emerging Safeguards by Sarah Wilbanks and John Ramming Chappell

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 July 13, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Last week on Just Security

• Revived Islamophobic Narratives Pose Renewed Danger as Bosnia Commemorates the Srebrenica Genocide by Ehlimana Memišević
• “Lost to History”: Uses and Abuses of the Past in Slaughter and Cook by Andrea Scoseria Katz and Jane Manners

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 July 10, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• It Takes More Than Two to Tango: Creating Effective Export Controls on Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment by Sylvia Chen and Peter Tozzi

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 July 9, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• Breaking the Cycle: Transitional Justice in America After Trump by D. Wes Rist and Alka Pradhan
• A Path For Middle Powers and a Rules-Based International Order: A Functional Perspective by Kai Ambos and Abdi Scheybani
• Vetting Foreign AI Talent: Security Without Exclusion
  by Joe Khawam and Tim Schnabel

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 July 8, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• To Help Venezuelans After the Quake, End U.S. Sanctions by Francisco R. Rodríguez and George A. Lopez
• The Federal Reserve Exception to the Slaughter Rule
  by Lev Menand