Early Edition July 21, 2026

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.Published July 21, 2026, on Just Security. ICYMI:  Yesterday on Just Security“Zero Evidence”: How Judges and Grand Juries Have Rejected the Trump Administration Efforts to Investigate and Prosecute by Dani Schulkin, Ryan Goodman, and Huzaifa KhanMerchant Mariners: Unseen in Peacetime and Forgotten in Conflict by U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral (ret.) Melissa Bert The State Department’s Campaign Against the ICC Rests on a Misunderstanding of How the Court Actually Works by Nema Milaninia