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Lawfare
U.S. center-left (legal and national-security commentary)
Lawfare is a nonprofit site on national security, law and policy, published by the Lawfare Institute in cooperation with Brookings. Its contributors are mostly lawyers, academics and former officials, and its editorial framing leans center-left. It currently runs heavy, often critical coverage of the second Trump administration's legal and executive-branch actions, including a regular series called 'The Trials of the Trump Administration.'
Owned byPublished by the Lawfare Institute, a nonprofit (501(c)(3)) founded in 2014. Wittes is president, Chesney is treasurer and Goldsmith is secretary. It has long been published in cooperation with the Brookings Institution. It has no corporate or individual owner.
LeaningU.S. center-left (legal and national-security commentary)
On the administrationbroadly critical
4average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun