Israel Is Wondering if America Is Still on Its Side (Anchal Vohra, Foreign Policy) Shifts in U.S. policy and public support have Israelis searching for answers.

Hegseth Conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s “Retribution Campaign” (Noah Robertson, Tara Copp and Sarah Ellison, Washington Post) In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats ...

The Subsea Sputnik Moment (Kevin Frazier, Lawfare) China’s XLUUV exposes decades of policy negligence, demanding Congress reject bureaucratic inertia and secure the undersea cable system.

Could “A House of Dynamite” Spark a Public Rethink of Nuclear Risk? (Blake Narendra, Just Security) There’s no shortage of opportunities to reduce the chances that a war game –or the plot of “Dynamite ...

What China Will Dominate Next ( Economist) The country’s high-speed innovation holds lessons for the world.

· The Real AI Threat Is Algorithms That “Enrage to Engage” · Neo-Nazi’s Online Stunts Expose the Dangers Lurking for Kids on Roulette-Style Video Chats ...

Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration (Hamed Aleaziz, Nicholas Nehamas, Michael H. Keller, and Alexandra Berzon, New York Times) Internal documents reveal the ...

The Inevitable Logic of a Japanese Nuclear Weapon (Bilahari Kausikan, Foreign Policy) Rapid geopolitical change requires an urgent debate in Japan.

Continental passengers at Houston airport can now board planes by showing their cell phones or PDAs to security checkers; checkers scan rectangular bars on the cell phones’ or PDAs’ screens, which ...

A parable of China’s industrial supremacy. Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela (David E. Sanger, Tyler Pager, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, and Devlin Barrett, New York Times) ...

· In a First, Taiwan to Distribute Security Handbook to All Households as China Threat Rises ...

In a tacit admission that U.S. food production requires foreign labor, the Trump administration is making it easier for farmers to employ guest workers from other countries. The shifts come as many ...