Afghanistan – The Long Road Ahead

The war may be over, but for refugees from the Taliban the battle has just begun

The Tractor War

If you buy a machine—be it a smartphone or a combine—you should be able to fix it, right? Big Tech says no. Ordinary Joes say yes. Witness the biggest battle in the right-to repair movement, being fought on farms across America.

The Right Medicine

When covid treatments are politicized, science loses.

Who You Gonna Call?

After Oakland cops drew guns on an accident survivor, a new kind of emergency responder rushed to the scene.

Suck It Up

Is pulling CO2 out of the sky our climate salvation-or just another Big Oil boondoggle?

Facebookland

The social giant isn’t just acting like an authoritarian power. It is one.

Bashar Is Back

In a triumph over the U.S., Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, a long-time political pariah, is now reclaiming a place on the world stage

America Can't Ignore Afghanistan

Exclusive: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says the Taliban can be a partner for peace, not a terrorist threat - if the U.S. stays engaged.

Black Hairstyles Need Protection

In most U.S. states, employers and schools are allowed to discriminate against box braids, locs, and other traditional styles. A coalition of activists and legislators has started to change that.

CIA Creates Working Group on China as Threats Keep Rising

China is an especially difficult challenge for the U.S. intelligence community.

Simone Biles – ‘I Should Have Quit Way Before Tokyo'

For Simone Biles, walking away was an act of self-reclamation.

California 1st to Set Quota Limits for Retailers like Amazon

California became the first state to bar megaretailers from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that grew from Amazon’s drive to speed goods to consumers more quickly.

We Wanted Flying Cars. Instead We Got Targeted Ads, More Surveillance, Insurrectionists, and Peter Thiel

An exclusive excerpt from The Contrarian, a new biography

Border Conflicts

“Covid Zero” kept Australia safe, if isolated, for 18 months. Now its states are split over how to move on

Where Is Our Paradise of Guilt-Free Sex?

Half a century after the sexual revolution, we still haven’t reconciled what we should want with what we do want.

What Have We Learned?

We will never forget 9/11. But a more interesting question at the 20th anniversary is, what should we remember—or more...

The U.N.'s Own Humanitarian Crisis

Four years after promising to address its internal “scourge” of sexual assault and abuse, the massive, multinational, extralegal institution remains in conflict with itself.

Biden's Benghazi Moment

How the deadly Kabul AIRPORT ATTACK and bungled Afghanistan pullout could HAUNT HIS PRESIDENCY–and cost him the midterms.

Was ‘Chaos-istan' Inevitable?

How Biden's influence during the Obama administration had long-lasting effects

When The State Is Absent

A year after Beirut’s devastating port blast, the government is AWOL— so the people have stepped in to rebuild

Fighting Terrorism from Afar

Can Joe Biden’s ‘over-the-horizon’ strategy in Afghanistan keep America safe? Defense experts are skeptical

Mistakes Were Made: 9/11 At 20

We should also acknowledge that a pervasive question after 9/11—“Why do they hate us?”—was the wrong question.

DEA Still Insists Marijuana Has No ‘Accepted Medical Use'

DEA still maintains that the plant belongs in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), a category supposedly reserved for especially dangerous drugs with no accepted medical use.

Do We Really Need New Anti-Asian Hate Crime Laws?

A holistic look at the data shatters the narrative about bias-based violence.

Everything is Infrastructure Now

How spending got out of control and words lost their meaning

Cynthia Lummis, Crypto Queen Of The U.S. Senate

The Wyoming Republican explains why she’s long on bitcoin.

Cashed Out

What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?

Cubans Rose Up. America Should Step Up.

After thousands of Cubans poured into the streets in early July to protest the island nation’s Communist government, President Joe Biden said America “stands firmly” with the people of Cuba.

Ammon's Army

He built a platform that can summon 60,000 people for uprisings on demand. He’s running to become governor of Idaho. Inside Ammon Bundy’s crusade to liberate the West.

Mad As Hell

What’s fueling America’s political rage?