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Washington Post: General Michael V. Hayden says ODNI leader Tulsi Gabbard has “no responsibility at all” when it comes to local election security.
CNN (subscription may be required): Wounded but still dangerous: How Iran could strike back if Trump attacks (Umud Shokri quoted).
CNN (video): Videos appear to show agents taking gun before Minneapolis shooting (Andrew McCabe interviewed). McCabe starts at the 3:44 mark. Also in Indice PolÍtico (Mexico).
Project Syndicate: J.P. Singh writes in an international forum that “MAGA is destroying the culture that built the West.”
The Wall Street Journal (subscription may be required; audio option): Trump has options in Iran. None are likely to help protesters much. (Jack A. Goldstone quoted). Also in MSN.
KPFA 94.1 FM (audio option; Oakland, CA): Trump’s resource imperialism and imperial racketeering (Louise Shelley discusses topic).
Earth.com: AI writing tools have hidden bias in character creation (Research by Thema Monroe-White cited).
Homeland Security Today: Mahmut Cengiz contributes insights to annual 2026 Homeland Security Threat Forecast: Part I, Terrorism
Newsweek (subscription may be required): Uncommon Knowledge: Why won’t MAGA defend the Second Amendment? (A 2025 Washington Post-Schar School poll cited).
WYDaily: Virginia’s solar advocates rally against proposed metering change (Coauthored research by lead author Paul Bobbosh cited).
Access to Excellence (podcast): George Mason President Gregory Washington interviews Larry Pfeiffer about adding reality to the Situation Room in the Netflix movie “A House of Dynamite.”
The Christian Science Monitor: Gun-rights uproar encroaches on Trump immigration crackdown (A 2025 Washington Post-Schar School survey cited).
The Fourth Estate (George Mason University): Jonathan Dubois sworn in as next Undergraduate Student Body President (Students Jonathan Dubois, international security and law and international law and legal studies major, and Isaiah Grays, government and international politics major, mentioned).
ExecutiveGov: Former ODNI Data Chief Lori Wade joins CIA as Chief Learning Officer (Alumna Lori Wade profiled). Similar in Homeland Security Today.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch (subscription may be required; audio option): ‘Right-to-work’ repeal bill is a big early test for Spanberger/Guest column (Op-ed by Mark J. Rozell). Also in The Daily Progress (subscription may be required; audio option; Charlottesville, VA).
Augusta Free Press: The work of James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde is cited in a column explaining how UVA could dismiss their new president for far less than expected.
Fairfax County Times: Fairfax County sees low voter turnout in special elections (Jeremy D. Mayer quoted).
Syracuse.com (MLive pickup): Kent Syverud’s contract at Michigan is a ‘C-minus at best,’ experts say (Judith Wilde and James Finkelstein quoted).
Cardinal News (audio option; Roanoke, VA): 9 facts to know about the Virginia economy (Op-ed in which research by Keith Waters cited).
SwimSwam: Georgetown women dominate, George Mason men stand tall in split dual in Fairfax (George Mason’s men’s and women’s swim teams profiled, with student-athletes Erik Oman, political science major, Landry Liston, government and international politics major, and Kristen Ivey, international security and law major mentioned).
Wisconsin Public Radio: Judith Wilde suspects she knows why the UW-Madison chancellor is leaving her post to lead Columbia University.
Responsible Statecraft: The new Trump Doctrine: Strategic domination and denial (Op-ed by Joanna Rozpedowski). Also in China Daily.
WorldNetDaily (RealClear Investigations pickup): New evidence: Obama’s fingerprints all over investigations of Trump and Clinton (Andrew McCabe mentioned).
Memesita: Mexico’s cartels are building a digital fortress: From ransomware to recruitment, the tech arms race escalates (Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera quoted).
Hindu Business Line: Umud Shokri is quoted in a story about the BRICS energy pact.
Hoy Xalapa (translation may be required; Mexico): “You can’t trust anything the Trump Administration says about the deaths in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents” (Comments to CNN by Andrew McCabe cited).
Hechen en California (translation may be required): Severe criticism of ICE for “aberrant conduct,” militarization, and lack of training (Comments to CNN by Andrew McCabe cited).
Taiwan Security Monitor
Business Insider (subscription may be required): Taiwan is reworking its ground forces. It could unlock new ways of fighting with new tech. (Research by the Taiwan Security Monitor cited).
DYNUZ (Business Insider pickup): Taiwan is reworking its ground forces. It could unlock new ways of fighting with new tech. (Research by The Taiwan Security Monitor cited).
Center for Maritime Strategy: Schar School graduate and research team leader Ethan Connell cowrites an analysis of the danger of political backpedaling.
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Academia
Schar School Policy Review: Ziqian Feng writes in the new graduate student publication about “AI’s Achilles’ Heel.”
Cambridge University Press: Rethinking the deterrence-disarmament dichotomy: The complex landscape of global nuclear weapons preferences (J. Luis Rodriguez coauthors the study published in Perspectives on Politics).