July 16. 2018
Last month, the owner of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia quietly refused service to White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. In the age of Twitter and twenty-four-hour news cycles, owner Stephanie Wilkinson surely knew that she and […]
May 15. 2018
Five years ago, if you had walked into a room of security professionals and asked what threats kept them up at night, you’d likely have heard about lone-wolf attacks inspired by ISIS or Al-Qa’ida. Indeed, since 9/11, much of our […]
April 1. 2018
Lost in the noise of our frenetic news cycle, last month we passed a critical historical milestone without most people even realizing it. Fifteen years ago, on March 20, 2003, a U.S.-led coalition launched Operation Iraqi Freedom to topple Saddam […]
March 16. 2018
Intellectual property theft in China used to be symbolized by stores in Chinese malls across the country filled floor to ceiling with pirated DVDs of Hollywood blockbuster movies. Now a better symbol might be a Chinese tech startup. American officials estimate that intellectual […]
February 22. 2018
Imagine investing thousands of dollars into relatively obscure coins like NEM and TRON during the height of the Bitcoin boom, hoping they’d follow Bitcoin’s lead and explode onto the crypto-scene in the coming months. Now, imagine waking up weeks later […]
January 18. 2018
With less than a month to go before the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, the eyes of the world are on the Korean peninsula – but not for the reasons Olympic organizers had hoped for when […]
December 21. 2017
The year began with Donald Trump’s bleak inaugural address, during which, in stark contrast to the usual pomp of the quadrennial celebration, he surveyed the “rusted out” landscape of the country and bemoaned the “American carnage” of our time. After […]
Assassinations in the Drone Age