geopolitics

It follows a well-worn playbook for North Korea.

The EU is slowly realizing that it cannot count on the U.S. to meet its security needs. Has the time finally come for a European military?

All of these conflicts have a long history. They may also have a long future.

Love him or hate, Karl Marx redefined geopolitics and shook up the world order.

Hindsight is 20/20, particularly when you have had 20 years to think about what happened.

Russian movies continue to be used as a mouthpiece for the country’s political leadership.

Preferring “bases not places,” the U.S. does not really resemble the empires of old.

Instead of just Afghanistan, the U.S. military ought to withdraw from the entire Middle East and much of the rest of the world.

How the British obsession with tea triggered wars, led to bizarre espionage, and changed the world — many times.

Before it fueled Woodstock and the Summer of Love, LSD was brought to America to make spying easier.

The few seconds of nuclear explosion opening shots in Godzilla alone required more than 6.5 times the entire budget of the monster movie they ended up in.

Unstable politics and virtue signaling are responsible for creating bureaucratic nightmares.

Can a war be won from the air? A group of renegade pilots in the 1930s thought so.

The Bomber Mafia nearly changed the world—and you’ve likely never heard of them.

A brief passage from a recent UN report describes what could be the first-known case of an autonomous weapon, powered by artificial intelligence, killing in the battlefield.

Too few babies — not overpopulation — is likely to be a major problem this century.

A new study calls the technique “location spoofing.”

The world’s 10 most affected countries are spending up to 59% of their GDP on the effects of violence.

Global inequality takes many forms, including who has lost the most children

People often divide the world into “us” and “them” then forget about everybody else.

“It’s not always about agreement, more often it’s about business.”

The public sphere should be open to conflict.

For some philosophers, hope is a second-rate way of relating to reality.

The independent news collective is teaching a new generation of journalists and citizens to spot the stories in plain sight.

For democracy to prosper in the long term, we need more people to reach higher levels of education.

By 2050, there may be more plastic than fish in the sea.

In May 2018, the city of Paris set an ambition to be carbon-neutral by 2050.

The debate over whether or not there is a place for political correctness in modern society is not always black and white.

The opening lines of Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News lay bare the culture of denial in the US.

The UAE is the first Arab nation to send a spacecraft to the Red Planet.