European defense budgets have hit record highs, but fragmented procurement, duplicated weapons systems, and a hollowed-out industrial base mean the continent is paying more and getting less. The NATO spending targets may be making the problem worse.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOne side wants minorities gone, the other wants them on display. A Yale study, Malcolm X’s fox-and-wolf metaphor, and the grim history of human zoos reveal how both ends of the political spectrum reduce people to props.
News & AnalysisHan Chinese papers over enormous diversity. “Japanese” coexists with Ainu and Ryukyuan minorities without crisis. But “white” is treated as uniquely incoherent. The reasons for that asymmetry are more political than logical.
News & AnalysisIsrael airlifted tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in celebrated rescue operations. Decades later, they face coerced contraception, discarded blood, segregated schools, and police violence. The gap between the promise and the reality is a stain on the country that called them home.
News & AnalysisBetween 1932 and 1933, Stalin’s Soviet government engineered a famine in Ukraine that killed nearly four million people. The grain existed. It was taken. This is the story of the Holodomor, one of the 20th century’s worst atrocities, and the decades-long campaign to erase it from history.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisInfluencers who fled France for Dubai, citing religion and a desire to “live in a Muslim country,” discovered that faith makes a better Instagram story than a missile shield. When Iran’s strikes lit up the skyline, the passports came out and the homeland suddenly mattered again.
News & AnalysisIf religious people genuinely believed in paradise, wouldn’t they welcome death? A provocative question with a surprising answer: decades of psychology research reveal that the relationship between faith and death anxiety is far stranger than either believers or skeptics expect.
News & Analysis Psychology & BehaviorIf poverty causes crime, why do some of America’s poorest communities have some of its lowest crime rates? The Chinese immigrant experience demolishes a popular framework and points to something more complicated, more interesting, and more useful.
News & AnalysisFormer Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sits in ICC custody in The Hague, facing crimes against humanity charges for a drug war that killed thousands. How a local death squad became an international criminal case.
True CrimeOil drops, wheat drops, shipping costs drop. So why is your grocery bill still climbing? The answer involves rockets, feathers, and a system that was never designed to work in reverse.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisA vaccine does not just introduce a weakened pathogen and hope for the best. It triggers a precise molecular cascade, from pattern recognition receptors to germinal center reactions, that rewires your immune system to remember and destroy threats it has never truly faced.
Evergreen Science & MedicineCRISPR has cured sickle cell disease and produced the first personalized gene therapy for an infant. But the gap between what gene editing can do today and what headlines promise remains enormous. Here is what actually works, what does not, and why.
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