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Special Immigrant Visas for the United States’ Afghan Allies: Lessons Learned from Promises Kept and Broken (Lawfare)

Anoush Baghdassarian, Todd Carney As thousands of Afghans rushed to the Kabul airport to flee the country out of a palpable fear of what Taliban rule...

A Strange Defense of the Biden Moratorium Extension Mess (Lawfare)

Jack Goldsmith The Biden administration’s handling of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium extension was widely viewed to be lawless and...

Pandemic/Extremism – Whose side are they on? The diversity of far-right responses to Covid-19 (ICCT)

Teun van Dongen, Eviane Leidig From the very beginning of the pandemic, government officials in the UK, Germany, and Australia voiced concerns that extreme right individuals would use the lockdown...

Counter Terrorism – Cashing in on Guns: An Interactive Infographic on Small Arms and Light Weapons and Terrorist Financing (ICCT)

What are some of the key trends and issues in Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) as a source of terrorist financing? Based on...

Blue Origin suit stops work on NASA HLS contract with SpaceX (SpaceNews)

Jeff Foust NASA will stop work on a Human Landing System award to SpaceX through the end of October as a federal court takes up...

Space – Astronauts conduct second Chinese space station spacewalk (SpaceNews)

Andrew Jones Chinese astronauts Nie Haisheng and Liu Boming embarked on a second Shenzhou-12 spacewalk late Thursday to carry out work on a space station...

Space surveillance sensor supplier Geost acquired by private equity firm (SpaceNews)

Sandra Erwin Geost, a company that supplies space surveillance sensors to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, has been acquired by ATL Partners, a private...

SpaceX wants to give Starship lead role in revised second-gen Starlink plan (SpaceNews)

Jason Rainbow SpaceX is proposing to use Starship to rapidly deploy its second-generation Starlink constellation, providing denser rural coverage without needing more than the 30,000...

Startup raises funding to provide high-resolution imagery from balloons (SpaceNews)

Jeff Foust A Colorado startup has raised a seed round of funding to further develop a system that can provide imagery from high-altitude balloons at...

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