ISIS and the Social Media War
By Brendan I. Koerner Wired The Islamic State recognized the power of digital media early on, when its brutish progenitor, Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, discovered the utility of uploading grainy […]
Monthly Archives: March 2016
The Undersea Mining Spree
By Brooke Jarvis Pacific Standard Picture a map of the world. Maybe you’re imagining a political map, with colorful nations interlocking like puzzle pieces. Or maybe you see yellow deserts, […]
For Now, the Arctic Remains a Refuge of Friendly U.S.-Russia Relations
By Yereth Rosen Alaska Dispatch News In 1987, in the glow of glasnost, then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev detailed his vision of an Arctic that would be a “zone of peace” where […]
Harvesting Fog to Solve Water Crises
By Pauls Toutonghi The New Yorker “There are few places where life is so harsh,” Pablo Neruda wrote, describing his native Chile’s Atacama Desert. “It takes untold sacrifices to transport water […]
The Strategic Logic of Russia’s Withdrawal from Syria
By Vuk Vuksanovic Pulse Love him or hate him, but for better or worse Russian President Vladimir Putin has a talent for surprising the world. After six months of Russian […]
The Perils of Pseudolaw
By Colin McRoberts Aeon Would you like to stop paying taxes? Just renounce your 14th Amendment United States citizenship and claim ownership of the secret cestui que (beneficiary) trust that […]
Inside a Tainted Court-Martial
By John Woodrow Cox The Washington Post Innocent. That’s what Marine Maj. Mark Thompson declared the first time we met. He’d been fighting to prove it ever since two young […]
Super-Intelligent Humans are Coming
By Stephen Hsu Nautilus In Daniel Keyes’ novel Flowers for Algernon, a mentally challenged adult called Charlie Gordon receives an experimental treatment to raise his IQ from 60 to somewhere […]
China and the Iran Nuclear Deal
By Roncevert Ganan Almond The Diplomat On January 1, 2016, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delivered its report to the United Nations Security Council confirming that Iran had taken a […]
The Challenge of the U.S.-Mexico Border
By Jay Gilhooly Small Wars Journal The real national security threat along our border with Mexico is not immigration. All along the border, transnational activities threatening national security include narco-trafficking, […]
