A lot happened in 2025–from the deployment of National Guard in cities across the country to airstrikes in the Caribbean to DOGE's incursion into executive agencies to the weaponization of the Justice Department—and we covered it all. Lawfare contributors reflect back on the year that was:
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The Year That Was (2025)
The issues—and Lawfare coverage—that kept our editors up at night in 2025.
"[T]o put the issue of border security as the top objective in one’s national security strategy is a kind of a nativist madness that is more about cultural—and let’s be honest, racial—anxiety about immigration than it is about any tangible security threat," writes Benjamin Wittes.
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The Situation: Why Did the White House Write This National Security Strategy?
A very strange document.