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 June 23, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security

• The Law of Armed Conflict and the Attack on Kyiv’s Monastery of the Caves and Dormition Cathedral by Michael Schmitt
• As Governments Silence Critics During War, Writers Are Among the First to Pay the Price by Liesl Gerntholtz

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 June 22, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Last Week on Just Security

• Looking Back at Humphrey’s Executor by Michael Dreeben
• Time to Repeal INARA and Move Forward with the Iran MoU by Tess Bridgeman
• Deep Sea Mining and the Logic of Contracting Around the Commons by Cory Evans and Annie Brett

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 June 18, on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on 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 June 17, on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security

• The Last Check: Magistrate Judges and Federal Seizures of Election Records by John Keller and Chelsea Rice
• The Collateral Damage of Anti-Trans Policymaking
  by Yasemin Smallens
• Northern Ireland’s Racist Violence Has a Familiar Playbook
  by Shannon Doherty and Suchita Uppal

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 June 16, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security

• The Continuing Saga of Chief Judge Boasberg’s Contempt of Court Inquiry Involving Todd Blanche and Emil Bove by Marty Lederman
• Key Questions on U.S. Killing Tren de Aragua Leader Inside Venezuela by Tess Bridgeman, Michael Schmitt, Ryan Goodman, and Brian Finucane
• Sudan Has Become a Transnational Marketplace of Violence: Effective Responses Require Targeting the Sources by Mutasim Ali and Yonah Diamond

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 June 15, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security

• The Mythos Recall and Washington’s Missing AI Safety Playbook by Justin Hendrix
• Going Dark: Why Dismantling America’s Ocean Sensors Is a Security Risk by Erin Sikorsky
• Blockade and Article 2(4) of the UN Charter by Brian Finucane and Rebecca Ingber

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 June 12, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security

• Thoughts for Judge Advocates in Challenging Times by Calvin Lederer, John Ewers, Eugene R. Fidell, and Steven J. Lepper
• It’s Not Too Late to Fix the AI Exports Program by Sam Winter-Levy and Teddy Tawil

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 June 11, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security

• US-Central African Republic Deportation Agreement Escalates Attack on Immigrants and Puts Lives at Risk by Anjli Parrin and Savi Arvey
• Combatting AI Coercion and the Unexpected Climate Dividend by Nigel Purvis and Assaad Razzouk

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 June 10, 2026, on Just Security. 

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security

• Protecting Environmental Rights Defenders Is Key to Giving Communities a Voice by Sharan Srinivas
• Beyond Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Gender, and the Governance of Digital Economies in ASEAN by Vashti Ortego
• The New October 7 Tribunal and the Legitimacy Challenge of Atrocity Adjudication by Ya’ara Mordecai

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 June 9, 2026, on Just Security.  

ICYMI: Yesterday on Just Security

• A Year Later: The Stakes of Ordering Military Personnel to Police American Streets by Michael Angeloni and Beau Tremitiere
• The NBA’s Genocide Problem
  by Eric A. Friedman and John Prendergast
• AI ‘Regulation’ in the Chokepoint State
  by J. Benton Heath