After weeks of unsuccessfully attempting to either bully Russia’s Vladimir Putin into submission or bait him into war, United States president Joe Biden may finally be looking for a face-saving exit f...
Facebook, USA Today reports, “is asking some US users whether they may have been exposed to extremist content, or if they are worried that someone they know might be becoming an extremist”.
The pop-up...
On May 23, a fighter jet intercepted Ryanair Flight 4978 as it was about to exit Belarussian airspace en route from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania. Citing a supposed bomb threat — apparently co...
On May 8, my wife and I pulled into a local gas station and filled the family car’s tank. It wasn't intended as a smart move, nor did it result from a premonition. It was just dumb luck. Within 24 hou...
In February 2020, United States president Donald Trump announced a peace deal with the Taliban, giving American forces 15 months to get out of Afghanistan. Nearly a year later, with the withdrawal nea...
On March 29, the Libertarian Party of Kentucky issued a tweet that aroused considerable controversy — not least among partisan Libertarians themselves:
"Are the vaccine passports going to be yello...
Sooner or later, absent some kind of mass-extinction event, humankind will establish itself there: on the Moon. On Mars. Among the asteroids. Someday, even on planets orbiting distant stars.
There isn...
Donald Trump signed an executive order in June providing for sanctions against persons who “have directly engaged in any effort by the [International Criminal Court] to investigate, arrest, detain or ...
May 3 was World Press Freedom Day. The annual observance usually focuses on the World Press Freedom Index published each year by Reporters Without Borders. Break out the champagne!
The United States ...
The continuing saga of journalist and transparency activist Julian Assange took a dangerous turn yesterday. Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, revoked his asylum in that country’s London embassy. Brit...
