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This interview was featured in Critical State, a weekly newsletter from Inkstick Media and The World. Subscribe here. In the last edition of Deep Dive, we started digging into recent…

This interview was featured in Critical State, a weekly newsletter from Inkstick Media and The World. Subscribe here. How do relationships between combatants forged in wartime continue to…

A few weeks ago, most Americans were going about their day-to-day lives, largely unaware of the looming security crisis we now find ourselves in. The fundamental threat to human security…

I was intubated and placed on a ventilator in September last year. It was the end of a difficult pregnancy. For reasons no one quite understood, my baby had stopped growing somewhere around…

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve been starting to worry I might be losing touch with reality. When I turn on the news, I see that the President has suggested our national goal is…

Yesterday, in the time it took me to discover that my local Target was completely out of hand sanitizer, the price of oil dropped by over 30%. For those playing the home game, that’s the…

Michael Bloomberg got his ass handed to him on Wednesday night. He proved almost entirely unable to defend his record or policy positions against a concerted series of attacks from his…

This week saw China announce a drop in new cases and fatalities from coronavirus, raising hopes that containment of the virus may be working. Unfortunately, those hopes were almost…

Food for Thought is an interview series that sits down with national security professionals over food, drinks, coffee, or whatever. It brings people together. It connects “mid-career…

Food for Thought is a new interview series that connects “mid-career experts” with “emerging professionals” — while keeping those classifications purposefully vague —…