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Paths of Dissent

Posted May 26, 202200:50:45

Memorial Day can feel different every year, bittersweet at its best. It’s been the last Monday in May since 1868, first as Decoration Day, for marking...

100 Seconds to Midnight

Posted May 12, 202200:50:50

On the famous clock-face of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the time now is 100 seconds before midnight. Meaning: humankind is closer to nuclear...

A Dangerous Puzzle

Posted May 5, 202200:50:49

It’s Iran, again, at the center of a tricky, dangerous puzzle. Four years after Donald Trump broke out of the nuclear ban agreement, Iran is just...

Grain War

Posted April 28, 202200:50:44

Try this, to get a fresh grip on the war in Ukraine, and its effects still to come: we’ve got a food war in the breadbasket of the world, on the vast...

How Do We Look?

Posted April 21, 202200:50:11

We are encouraged to believe, we Americans, that if anything good for the world comes out of the war in Ukraine, it will be that “the US is back,”...