Global Security Blog
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. It was not a mystery, not an unforeseeable accident, and not a failure of imagination. It was a failure of decision-making under...
To many non-Americans, the United States looks over-legalized and under-regulated at the same time. It has a written Constitution older than most modern states, yet it often lacks explicit laws where Europeans expect them. Whole domains of political and...
In the book The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, historian Ned Blackhawk advances an argument that is as disturbing as it is well documented: Adolf Hitler did not invent settler colonial violence from nothing. He...
November 9 marks the International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism, a date that commemorates Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” when Nazi mobs burned synagogues, destroyed Jewish-owned shops, and unleashed a wave of violence that signaled...