Global warming could unearth ancient microbes. Will we be as unprepared as we were for the coronavirus?

The subtlest way to undermine democracy is to fake it.

As the coronavirus racks the globe, White House lackeys and lobbyists are converging on the former Yugoslavia and reopening old wounds.

The Russian president is planning a lifetime tenure—and acting as a beacon for budding autocrats, from Turkmenistan to the Trump White House.

A philosopher, a medical crisis, and a mystery

The father of the founder of the conspiratorial site filed a criminal complaint against me in Bulgaria. Then things got weird.

The U.S. has misused its "exorbitant" financial privilege, but American leaders should transform it, not abandon it.

In its laser focus on military restraint, the present debate about endless war overlooks the financial architecture of U.S. empire.

Meet David Booth, the fake news peddler who is helping Russia spread its lies.

The Trump administration is poised to kill another useful treaty that contributes to trans-Atlantic peace.

From St. Petersburg to Manila, a new book studies efforts to sow confusion and undermine reality.

While coverage has focused on the plight of Kurds, more Syrian locals and NGO workers face arrest and torture in the vacuum Trump created.

Since Nixon, presidential pundits and sycophants have tried to rationalize executive insanity. But no one was prepared for Trump’s Syria madness.

Hawks are telling the president to toughen up on Chinese nukes, but their plan might spur a new global atomic arms race.

Building on congressional intelligence, a new report offers a broad view on the dirty tricks trolls use to hook American servicemembers.

How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero

A radioactive mess near the Arctic Circle suggests our next superpower arms race will be even more foolish than the last one.

The sinister influence on the Senate majority leader is not the Kremlin, but a Republican Party that seeks to keep certain Americans from voting.

Robert Mueller says the threat to U.S. elections "deserves the attention of every American."

The Azov Battalion is using mixed martial arts to prepare to fight non-Europeans—and seems to be exporting that model to the West.