Ex-US president says leaving Iran nuclear deal, which is clearly working, turns Washington's back on its closest allies.

There has never been a more fiscally clueless team at the top than the Donald and his dimwitted Treasury secretary, Simple Steve Mnuchin. By David Stockman.

The bug in the industrial control software could leave power and manufacturing plants exposed. By Zack Whittaker.

Researchers have built a proof-of-concept processor that uses secretly stored electrical charge to trigger an ultra-stealthy backdoor. By Andy Greenberg.

For years we've documented how the internet of broken things industry and evangelists have contributed to a global privacy and security shitshow... By Karl Bode. (Apr. 16, 2018)

Thought Cambridge Analytica was creepy? This Israeli surveillance juggernaut is sitting on a massive database of faces taken from Facebook and YouTube, all feeding facial recognition tech for national governments. By Thomas Fox-Brewster.

How Unwanted Wars Begin. By Robert Jervis and Mira Rapp-Hooper. (Apr. 5, 2018)

Just eight months ago, John Bolton told members of a cult-like Iranian exile group that "before 2019" they would be ruling Iran. By Robert Mackey.

At a time when many in Moscow have again come to view the United States as an implacable foe, renewed examination of this period could yield important lessons for today. By Richard Purcell.

John Bolton named National Security Adviser. Replacing McMaster with Bolton puts the U.S. on a path to war. By Fred Kaplan.

Everyone knows Bolton is a hawk. Less understood is how he labored in secret to drive Washington and Tehran apart. By Gareth Porter. (Mar. 22, 2018)

Space meteorologists warn automated vehicle engineers against relying on GPS. By Kyle Stock and Brian K. Sullivan.

Cosmic rays are bad–and they’re getting worse. (Mar. 5, 2018)

Humanity’s food security is at far more risk than you realize. By Jonas O Bergman. (Mar. 8, 2018)

Foreign meddling, corruption, and sex scandals don’t always bring down a president. Just ask Bill Clinton. By Musa al-Gharbi

The most sophisticated, most urban, most reproductively fruitful of bears. By John McPhee.

Vladimir Putin's state of the nation address outlines a dangerous nuclear reality and should not be dismissed as political posturing. By Scott Ritter.

Jeff Goodell reports: Extreme weather due to climate change displaced more than a million people from their homes last year and could reshape nation.

The EPA is granting specific private-sector wishes as it moves to roll back, alter or delay rules. By Rachel Leven.

The only answer to rising seas is to retreat, argues an excellent 2016 book, Retreat From a Rising Sea; Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change by Dr. Orrin Pilkey with co-authors. By Dr. Jeff Masters.