Starting in 2016, the men who run the United Arab Emirates went all-in on positivity. They installed a giant smiley face on the dome crowning a Dubai police station. They created a Ministry of Tolerance and a Ministry of Happiness, as if… Read More ›
A highly regarded scientific journal has retracted a paper based on DNA samples from nearly 38,000 men in China, including Tibetans and Uyghurs who almost certainly did not give proper consent. The rare retraction by the journal, Human Genetics, follows… Read More ›
Maria Ressa, journalist and CEO of the online news site Rappler, is interviewed during a protest calling for press freedom on Jan. 19, 2018, in Metro Manila, Philippines. Photo: Jes Aznar/Getty Images For much of her life, journalist Maria Ressa… Read More ›
After two decades of unceasing warfare in the Middle East and Central Asia, the Biden administration has unveiled its first comprehensive review of the deployment of U.S. forces globally — and it envisions a virtually unchanged military footprint, with a sharpened commitment… Read More ›
Tiina Jauhiainen knows the reach of the United Arab Emirates firsthand. In 2018, Jauhiainen helped her friend and skydiving partner Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed al-Maktoum escape the country after accusing her father, the ruler of Dubai, of restricting her basic freedoms and… Read More ›
Abdulqadir al Madhfari was a young physician’s assistant who dreamed of becoming a doctor. No one could have imagined that at the age of 25, he would be imprisoned for the next two decades, first by the United States, then… Read More ›
Brazilian army Gen. Luiz Eduardo Ramos Baptista Pereira, right, speaks to Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, center, during the graduation ceremony of new paratroopers in Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 24, 2018. Photo: Fernando Souza/AFP via Getty Images General Motors was… Read More ›
Recently a Republican college student asked President Joe Biden during a town hall on CNN if he could “vow to protect Taiwan” from China. “Yes,” Biden responded. Anderson Cooper, who hosted the town hall, followed up with Biden, asking, “Are… Read More ›
A man weeps during a mass funeral for the 10 members of a family killed in a U.S. drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 30, 2021. Photo: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images After the terrorist attack on the… Read More ›
On what would be the last day of his life, Zemari Ahmadi, an employee of a U.S.-based NGO, was being watched by a remote crew piloting a Predator drone above the skies of Kabul, Afghanistan. As Ahmadi went about his… Read More ›