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These 1-Star Yelp Reviews of Embassies Make Us Question the Future of Diplomacy

Fri, 28/10/2016 - 16:42
When travelers don't get their visas on time, they get angry. And then they write Yelp reviews.

Do we worship information these days? Are server farms our new Delphi temples?

Fri, 28/10/2016 - 16:33
Server farms, I suspect, are our modern Delphis. Hidden away, accessible only to initiates. Essential to the way we live yet unavailable to most mere mortals.

Another Former Enlisted responds: The 152 pound load is just one more outdated way of approaching today’s conflicts

Fri, 28/10/2016 - 16:33
The infantry's emphasis on physicality over intelligence is a joke.

War dog: Soldiers and pets, World War I

Fri, 28/10/2016 - 16:31
These guys would be charged nowadays, I suspect.

SitRep: Rebels Assault Aleppo, Russian Air Base; Exclusive: Monitor Drones Grounded in Ukraine

Fri, 28/10/2016 - 14:10
Putin Blames Obama for Syria; And Lots More

Putin’s Chaos Strategy Is Coming Back to Bite Him in the Ass

Wed, 26/10/2016 - 23:14
The Russian president has sown confusion and conflict around the world the past two years. But his short-sighted meddling isn’t the work of a mastermind.

Dick Nixon Knows a Sore Loser When He Sees One

Wed, 26/10/2016 - 22:43
“You didn’t see me whining after I lost the rigged 1960 election, did you?” asks the ghost of the 37th president.

Thai Mourners Are Leaving Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds of Trash Outside the Royal Palace

Wed, 26/10/2016 - 22:24
Thai mourners are gathering to say goodbye to their king. But they're also leaving behind piles of trash.

Battleground ’16: Closing Argument

Wed, 26/10/2016 - 20:38
The final battles of the fight for the White House, from swing state Nevada to Trump's hotel in Washington, from the Iran deal to intervention in Syria.

Goldman Sachs to Trump: You’re No Mr. Brexit

Wed, 26/10/2016 - 20:05
Goldman says data doesn't support Trump's claim that he can pull off an upset like Britain's decision to leave the EU.

Is the International Criminal Court Crumbling Before Our Eyes?

Wed, 26/10/2016 - 19:14
With three African countries giving notice that they intend to abandon the ICC, a coordinated exodus might soon be coming.

Trump Promotes D.C. Hotel Before Campaign

Wed, 26/10/2016 - 18:56
From Florida resorts to Washington hotels, Trump’s focus on his businesses in the election’s crucial final weeks signals he’s already looking beyond Nov. 8.

Blowing Up the Islamic State’s Oil Company

Wed, 26/10/2016 - 17:52
The United States has dramatically stepped up attacks on the caliphate’s oil production. But to win this battle, it’s going to have to go scorched earth.

Gleick’s ‘Information’: The key problem with innovation is grasping differences

Wed, 26/10/2016 - 17:32
One of the key problems of innovation, James Gleick notes in The Information, is that new things tend to be seen too much in the context of the old.

A book review of ‘War Virgin’

Wed, 26/10/2016 - 17:32
I read the new book, War Virgin, to see where fact separated from fiction.

Duterte’s Flip-Flop Into Bed With China Is a Disaster for the United States

Thu, 20/10/2016 - 23:15
With the Philippine president ditching Washington for Beijing, the contest to control the South China Sea just got a lot more complicated.

How to End Saudi Arabia’s War of Paranoia

Thu, 20/10/2016 - 22:00
The only way to solve Yemen's war, and beat back its al-Qaeda franchise, is to dissolve the country entirely.

Prosecutors Detail What May Be NSA’s Worst-Ever Security Breach

Thu, 20/10/2016 - 21:55
Contractor Harold Martin is accused of lifting as many as 500 million pages of classified and top-secret material from Ft. Meade, and will be charged under the Espionage Act.

First U.S. Combat Death in Fight for Mosul

Thu, 20/10/2016 - 20:44
Pentagon officials insist that American forces remain behind the front lines near Mosul, but Thursday’s death calls that into question.

Donald Trump Can’t Undermine American Democracy Because It Barely Even Exists

Thu, 20/10/2016 - 20:43
And anyway, we’ve survived far more serious threats than this loathsome joker in the past.

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