Escape Velocity The dystopian future became the dystopian present last month when state-of-the-art artificial intelligence agents went rogue and conducted a cyberattack…

Recently, I had the opportunity to stand in a friend’s kitchen eating pupusas, the Salvadoran national food, while listening to an update on…

The March 4, 2026, edition of the Arizona Daily Star put the facts succinctly: “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence…

Follow a line south and west from the Gaza Strip, continue through Egypt, and you’ll end up in another place where a…

I first heard the expression “strategic incompetence” in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, I’d been…

I didn’t want to write this article. In fact, I had something relatively uplifting planned: an Independence Day piece about the rich…

Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then).…

In 2003, the Macedonian police arrested Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen vacationing in their country. They handed the unfortunate man over to…

The expression “punch-drunk,” Google informs me, means “stupefied by or as if by a series of heavy blows to the head.” Google’s…

“I never realized before that men hate us so much.” That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in…