Last September in Paris, four people filled an abandoned car with cooking gas canisters near the Notre Dame Cathedral, with the intention of setting off an explosion. Two of these perpetrators were teenagers, one was a married 29-year-old, and the final individual was nearly 40 years old. All of them were ISIS recruits, and all … Read more
For years, the enlarging East Asian sphere of influence has slowly threatened a once-stable Western economic and diplomatic hegemony, causing many in Washington to call for a restoration of American strength. Donald Trump embraced this attitude through his “Make America Great Again” campaign rhetoric, and more officially through his “America-First” foreign policy agenda, which seeks … Read more
The Department of Homeland Security has a motto: “If you see something, say something.” Well, we’ve seen quite a bit over the last month and Republicans in Congress have said next to nothing. The Russian government has interfered with our election. There is evidence that President Trump’s campaign team had unsavory discussions with Russian officials … Read more
Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy is the 19th Surgeon General of the United States and the first of Indian descent. He was appointed by President Obama in 2013 and confirmed in 2014. A graduate of Harvard College (’98), Vice Admiral Murthy has co-founded an HIV/AIDS educational organization, cared for thousands of patients, and trained hundreds of medical residents. … Read more
Kristen Soltis Anderson is a Republican pollster and author of The Selfie Vote: Where Millennials are Leading America (and How Republicans Can Keep Up). She has written for Politico and The Huffington Post, as well as appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and The O’Reilly Factor. The interview was conducted on February 22nd, 2017. … Read more
A street view of Harare, Zimbabwe. Worsening socioeconomic conditions have made many Zimbabweans targets for human trafficking. According to recent studies, most Americans associate the term “slavery” with the transatlantic slave trade that ended in the 1860s. The number of enslaved in 2016, however, totaled over three times the total number of those enslaved between the … Read more
In 2007, cyberwarfare nearly became real warfare when Russia waged a series of Distributed Denial of Service attacks against Estonia. A DDoS attack makes a website inoperable by overloading its servers with excessive traffic. “The attacks were aimed at the essential electronic infrastructure of the Republic of Estonia,” Estonia’s Minister of Defense told Wired shortly … Read more
At no point in our nation’s recent memory—and certainly not in the memories of the millennials who comprise this magazine’s staff—has policing been as contentious an issue as it is today. The killings of black men from Trayvon Martin to Philando Castille at the hands of officers have thrust conversations about racial bias in law … Read more
Pitted against each other in the last two NBA Finals, Stephen Curry and LeBron James have developed a personal rivalry without equal in today’s league. Called the world’s two best basketball players by both Slam magazine and ESPN, these two champions join the long NBA tradition of rival superstars—following rivalries like Wilt Chamberlain versus Bill … Read more
Beginning around 8 p.m. the evening of election night, President-Elect Donald Trump captured the lead in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, and Florida. Some of these states were considered contentious battleground states. Others were states that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had long been projected to win, and by a considerable margin. Spectators looked … Read more