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It’s Complicated
In Asha Rangappa and Renato Mariotti’s latest podcast on the legal complexities at the upper echelons of US politics: Democratic Senator Bob Menendez is indicted for accepting bribes and other corrupt acts, while Trump continues to normalize violent rhetoric without reprimand from Republican voters or leaders. .
When Words Have No Meaning
The purpose of impeaching President Biden is to ensure that words like "impeachment" have no power anymore. Asha Rangappa explains how this check and balance is being misused for political theater, in The Freedom Academy.
How I Won a Disinformation Battle — But Lost the War
A firsthand lesson of how and why disinformation spreads, why it's so sticky in the minds of deluded believers, and how to fight back. Brian Klaas explores, in the Garden of Forking Paths.
The Wagner Files
Wagner Group has catapulted out of the shadows and into the fore as the invasion of Ukraine wages on and the group expands its influence in Africa. Now, internal documents reveal how the mercenary group operates. David Patrikarakos explores in Unherd.
Artificial Intelligence Poses a Huge Threat. It's Time to Put a Seatbelt on It
Our already-too-fractured democracy faces yet another threat, as AI reaches the next stage of maturity. Is it time for a seat-belt? Jonathan M. Winer co-authors.
The "Need for Chaos" Voter
New research has discovered a new personality trait called "need for chaos." They just want to watch the world burn and they're happy to help democracy end in flames. We must understand them. Brian Klaas explores in the Garden of Forking Paths.
The Missing Covid Origin Debate
Did Covid-19 come from a raccoon dog or a lab leak? Brian Klaas explores how a more important debate has been hidden from public view in The Garden of Forking Paths…
Inside Ukraine’s Nonviolent Resistance: Chatbots, Yellow Paint, and Payoffs
David Patrikarakos write about how Ukraine’s digital resistance fights behind Russian lines for The Atlantic.
Iran’s ideological war on Britain
Iran’s footsoldiers are nurturing homegrown terrorism, and Britain is now one of their many targets. David Patrikarakos for UnHerd.
The Next Pandemic
Arthur Snell examines the mounting threat of new zoonotic diseases and how COVID conspiracism is undermining efforts against future pandemics on Doomsday Watch.
Black Ops and Secret Wars
On Doomsday Watch, Arthur Snell talks to veteran intelligence officers to find out how the CIA’s ‘golden age’ of fixing elections and fomenting coups gave way to a post-9/11 world where technology enables new threats – and Putin and the Chinese have the advantage.
To Break Democracy, Break Information Flows
What does it mean to be in a democracy in which citizens no longer have a shared sense of reality? Brian Klaas explores.
Doomsday Weapons
On Doomsday Watch, Arthur Snell takes us from the 1991 Gulf War and the Highway of Death to 9/11 and the rise of asymmetric warfare – to discover how we opened a Pandora’s Box of new and lethal technology.
Russia Today rolls out in Eastern Europe
As Russia intensifies its onslaught on Ukraine, Serbian President Vučić cosies up to the Kremlin & RT launches a Serbian language version of its site, angering the EU. Serbia does not seem to be helping itself. Helena Ivanov for UnHerd.
How the World Sped Up
Brian Klass explores the change that is happening faster than ever before. Can we keep up? Or will we get left behind, obliterated by catastrophic risk in a world that shifts too quickly?
Why Ukraine’s counter-offensive is working
In UnHerd, David Patrikarakos reports on how the Kremlin is being fed fake news from the front and how this is turning the tide of the war in Ukraine’s favour.
The Buffalo Attack – An Analysis of the Manifesto
In an age where communication technologies dominate the dispersal and development of ideas, it is critical to analyse and understand the manifestos left by terrorists such as the Buffalo shooter - Joana Cook et. al. for ICCT.
The War in Your Living Room
Today’s cyber-war battlegrounds aren’t on bank servers or Government databases. They’re in your smart fridges, doorbells and security cameras. Arthur Snell explores how to defend democratic societies when everything has become a computer on Doomsday Watch.
McJihad - How Terror Became a Global Franchise
On Doomsday Watch, Arthur Snell pieces together an astonishing story of how radicalisation is continuing in unexpected places around the world – how jihad leaders learned from the experts in global expansion, the fast food giants – and how jihad has found its mirror in QAnon.
Doing Business with Hackers, Terrorists and Dictators
Kenneth Dekleva writes for The Cipher Brief on how the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline and subsequent payment Darkside highlights the role of negotiations in cases involving cyber criminals.