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How U.S. Adversaries are Eyeing Our Presidential Election

OPINION — Describing the conditions that set the stage for history’s largest, most costly war, Winston Churchill wrote in The Gathering Storm, “The [...] More

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Elections are Primed for 'Wave of Misinformation'

OPINION — As we enter 2024, concerns arise regarding the potential threat generative AI poses to elections in terms of misinformation and media [...] More

Warning Signs for How Generative AI Will Impact the Next Election

OPINION – As state and non-state actors aim to disrupt elections by any means available while still affording plausible deniability, one of the [...] More

The Path to 2024's Election Is Engulfed With Novel Threats

The Path to 2024's Election Is Engulfed With Novel Threats

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — The former head of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) could scarcely be more clear in his [...] More

Pakistan's Looming Crisis Could Come at a Cost

If Pakistan’s army and government continue to block regional and national elections, they will increase the scale of Imran Khan’s eventual victory. [...] More

What Taiwan's Election Results Really Mean

OPINION — The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) decisive win of all but five of the twenty-two municipal, city and county elections in Taiwan on [...] More

Elections Protect a messy, but better Alternative

OPINION – On the eve of the US midterm elections, it is a good time to reflect on cyber threats to our political process, particularly from foreign [...] More

What Iran's Election Tells Us About Where It's Headed

What Iran's Election Tells Us About Where It's Headed

Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi won Iran’s presidential election on Saturday in a move that is expected to bolster the conservative legacy of the [...] More

Using Law to Confront Malign Foreign Influence

Peter Pascucci is a commander in the United States Navy and Kurt Sanger is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps. They have been [...] More

We Need An Insurrection Investigation

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on [...] More

America's Allies Shocked by Storming of the Capitol

The Cipher Brief asked our experts to weigh in on how they saw Wednesday’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump protesters and how allies and [...] More

Special Report: Attack on Democracy

Special Report: Attack on Democracy

Here's our take on the failed efforts of a pro-Trump mob to stop Congress from certifying ballots at the Capitol on Wednesday as Congress, led by [...] More

The Fallout from a Contentious Confirmation Battle

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on [...] More