National-security agencies should be allowed to reject AI products when vendor-imposed restrictions prevent the products from supporting lawful military missions

Platform regulation, artificial intelligence, surveillance, data privacy and the antitrust scrutiny of large firms, as they are argued in American politics. A domain where federal law lags well behind deployment, leaving states and the courts to set the boundaries instead.

Defence of a state against external and internal threats, spanning intelligence services, military operations, counterterrorism and the classification of information. Covers the tension between secrecy and oversight, and the agencies whose work is largely conducted beyond public view.

Coverage of the American economy and the policy that shapes it: inflation, employment, tariffs, taxation and the federal budget. Distinct from business news, which follows companies rather than the decisions taken in Congress and at the Federal Reserve.

A San Francisco judge struck down the supply-chain risk label in late August, finding the Department violated the First Amendment to make a public example of a critic. The designation had barred defense contractors from using Claude, after the company refused to drop guardrails.