Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Is Becoming a Bubble | Five Misconceptions Blocking National Security Reform | Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End, and more ...

EXTREMISM · Terrorist Set to Be Freed “Told Inmates He Masterminded 7/7” · Transnational White Supremacy: Digital Violent Extremism from West to East · The French Far Right’s Financial Catch-22 · How ...

CHINA WATCH How Strong Is China’s Rare-Earth Card? (Christina Lu, Foreign Policy) Washington is making big moves, but Beijing has a powerful hand. Chinese Engagement with Africa (Oluwatimilehin Sotubo ...

CHINA WATCH · China Surveys Seabeds Where Naval Rivals May One Day Clash · U.S. Threats to AUKUS Pact Put United Front Against China at Risk · How Rare Earths Became China’s Top Trade Weapon · China’s ...

· Indian Suspect in Plot to Kill Sikh Separatist Extradited to US Nikhil Gupta has been accused by U.S. prosecutors of plotting with an Indian government official to kill a U.S. resident who advocated ...

Inside immigration courts around the country, immigrants who crossed the border illegally and were caught and released are required to appear before a judge for a preliminary hearing. But in a new ...

· Trump to Russia’s Rescue · Inside the Drugs Factory That Brought Assad’s Regime $5bn a Year · Syria Too Exhausted for a Conflict with Israel, Says Rebel Leader · Iran Has Lost Assad —and with Him ...

Trump’s Actions Are Pushing Thousands of Experts to Flee Government (Hannah Natanson, Dan Diamond, Rachel Siegel, Jacob Bogage and Ian Duncan, Washington Post) The U.S.DOGE Service’s push for early ...

New report says SBINet failed because the U.S. government rushed into it without a well-thought-out plan and without a sufficiently tight supervision of the prime contractor, Boeing; “Instead, [SBINet ...

No, a Shadowy Figure Is Not Buying Tents for Columbia Student Protesters (David Gilert, Wired) A number of elected officials, including New York City Mayor Eric Adams, law enforcement officers, ...

· The Fog of Disaster Is Getting Worse · Johnson Won’t Say Biden Won in 2020, Raising Worries on 2024’s Process · As Lawmaker Claims Trump’s Shooting Was Inside Job, G.O.P. Indulges Him · Why Legal ...

The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as part of an ambitious effort to combat criminal gangs trafficking narcotics across the southern border, ...