Developing Pragmatic Military Strategy
By Andrew J. Bacevich Foreign Affairs During the Cold War, the United States preferred to husband, rather than expend, its military power. The idea was not to fight but to defend, […]
Monthly Archives: August 2016
The Limits of Science
By Mikkel Krenchel & Christian Madsbjerg Foreign Affairs If you’ve ever listened to a TED Talk or read a popular science book about human behavior, chances are good that you’ve heard fascinating […]
How the Money Bail System Perpetuates America’s Mass Incarceration Problem
By Jared Keller Pacific Standard At this very moment, nearly 450,000 Americans are sitting in county jails not because they’ve been charged with a crime, but because they simply don’t […]
Reinvigorating Interest in the Final Frontier
The Economist It may turn out to be a bare and barren rock. The fact that liquid water could be flowing across the surface of the planet just discovered orbiting […]
It was Never Golden
By Alan Jay Levinovitz Aeon ‘Make the world great again!’ thunder the prophets, religious and secular alike, who know our need for mythic comfort in the face of unjust reality. And […]
Chasing ISIS Through Europe
By Mitch Prothero Buzzfeed The assignment given to the Belgian police in the summer of 2014 was straightforward but high stakes: Follow two men suspected of involvement with ISIS through […]
Bringing the Rural Poor Into the Digital Economy
By Maria Konnikova Pacific Standard When it comes to high-speed Internet, Arkansas lags behind the rest of the country, typically coming in last or next-to-last in surveys of availability and access. […]
How the Arab World Came Apart
By Scott Anderson The New York Times Magazine History never flows in a predictable way. It is always a result of seemingly random currents and incidents, the significance of which […]
The Hidden Costs of America’s Addiction to Mercenaries
By Sean McFate Defense One As President Obama prepares to hand off combat operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and elsewhere, to his successor, he’s also bequeathing a way of war […]
Inside China’s Unique Space Ambitions
By Namrata Goswami The Diplomat China’s space ambitions and goals are unique. Unlike the space rivalry between the United States and the former USSR, which was mostly about “who got where […]
