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WAR & GEOPOLITICS

Bellingcat osint
Tracking a Sanctioned Russian Vessel’s West African Odyssey

Sign up here to receive Bellingcat’s biggest investigations by email as soon as they are published. A sanctioned vessel that was previously reported to have transported weapons destined for Russian mercenaries has been traversing ports on the west coast of Africa since March, exh…

AEROSPACE & DEFENSE TECH

Aviation Week industry
BCA Special Edition Newsletter

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Aviation Week industry
Selected U.S. Military Contracts for the Week of March 6 - March 10, 2017

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Aviation Week industry
Product Realization Pop Quiz

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UNDERGROUND & INVESTIGATIVE

INDEPENDENTS & SUBSTACK

Bari Weiss — The Free Press independent
How to Prevent the Next 9/11

America was successful in stopping another major jihadist attack. But we’re starting to forget the crucial lessons learned that day.

LEFT

Jacobin hard-left
The GOP’s Enemy #1 for the Midterms: Socialism

Donald Trump and the Republicans want you to be terrified of socialists. But they really don’t want to talk about our core economic policies, because the moment you spell those policies out, they sound pretty good.

Jacobin hard-left
Universities Are Teaching the Virtue of Overwork

At American universities, nap pods and meditation apps paper over backbreaking workloads. As higher education increasingly conforms to corporate logic, its most durable product becomes a student with a proven capacity for overwork.

Jacobin hard-left
The Discreet Charm of John Berger

Art critic, novelist, Marxist, lover, exile, storyteller: John Berger resisted every easy definition. His new biography embraces the contradictions he left behind.

THINK TANKS

CSIS defense-security
The Bio-Pharma Industry and Society

The Bio-Pharma Industry and Society Listing Summary Please join the CSIS Global Health Policy Center on March 17, from 10:00am – 11:30am, for an exploration of how private bio-pharmaceutical firms can better support the critically important societal goals of…

CSIS defense-security
The FY2017 Defense Budget and Strategic Outlook

The FY2017 Defense Budget and Strategic Outlook Listing Summary Please join the CSIS International Security Program for a half-day Defense360 conference on the recently released FY2017 defense budget request and strategic priorities. Drupal Admin…

CSIS defense-security
2016 U.S.-Japan Security Seminar

2016 U.S.-Japan Security Seminar Listing Summary Michael J. Green interviews JIIA President Yoshiji Nogami Drupal Admin Fri, 02/26/2016 - 12:54 Featured Image Image …

Foreign Policy analytical
The Bab el-Mandeb Problem

Houthi control of a Red Sea port brings Tehran closer to claiming another critical waterway.

AI & TECH

MIT Technology Review tech-analytical
The Download: a “God-driven” cryptocurrency and a solar engineering roadmap

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hall…

MIT Technology Review tech-analytical
Powering AI is an architecture problem

On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 …

MIT Technology Review tech-analytical
This road map could help us decide whether to deploy solar geoengineering

A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century ex…

SCIENCE