For the Israelis this defiance of their usual air supremacy requires massive retaliation. This is ongoing. By Col. Pat Lang.

Why pick just one flavor of apocalypse? By Rachel Becker.

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They say strategy led by DoD policy wonks could lead to dangerous nuclear escalation. By Mark Perry.

The satellites that control our world could be rendered useless. By Chelsea Gohd.

Vera Thomas scraped together enough money with the help of about $7,000 in student loans to attend community college for two semesters to try to better her job prospects. That was in 2012… By Kevin Krause.

Following the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami of 2011, selfless Japanese workers battled nuclear-reactor meltdown, and thousands of US troops provided disaster relief. Today, many are counting the cost to their mental and physical health. By Rob Gilhooly.

Hostile acts against submerged Internet cables would put critical communications, trillions of dollars in transactions and the world economy at risk. By Doug Tsuruoka. (Jan. 6, 2018)

Syria cannot countenance Kurdish presence on its territory and Turkey cannot tolerate a Kurdish enclave along its southern border, however secular, liberal and socialist it claims (not without reason) to be. By Robert Fisk. (Jan. 18, 2018)

The Center of Gravity in the Destruction of the State of the Islamic State. By Michael J. Mooney. (Jan. 14, 2018)

Research breakthroughs astound scientists. By Chelsea Harvey.

Over the weekend, the Thomas fire reemerged with a vengeance, pushing into Santa Barbara County and destroying more homes. By Brittny Mejia, Alene Tchekmedyian, Ruben Vives, Joseph Serna.

Climate change and disease evolution have been the wild cards of human history. By Kyle Harper.

A single-point failure makes the world’s busiest airport go dark for hours and traps thousands of passengers. It’s what phase one of an attack could look like. By Clive Irving.

The effusive praise for this cryptocurrency is nothing but self-generated flimflam. By Christopher Whalen.

A United Nations official who tours the globe investigating extreme poverty said Thursday that areas of Alabama’s Black Belt are suffering the most dire sewage disposal crisis of any place he has visited in a developed country. By Connor Sheets.

Here are seven reasons why the United States should not seek to deploy nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula. By By Jon Wolfsthal, Toby Dalton.

Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, a senior UN official said. By Chris Arsenault.

By Elizabeth Weil *with Comments and Corrections by Hannah W Duane. Photograph by Tabitha Soren, assisted by Dixie Lewis, 15.

The overture follows an intense and secretive lobbying push involving Michael Flynn, Tom Barrack, Rick Gates and even Iran-Contra figure Robert McFarlane. By Isaac Arnsdorf.