3 Reasons This Obscure Country Is a Top ISIS Recruiting Ground
In the past year, jihadists from Tajikistan have been involved in an unusually high number of terrorist attacks or foiled plots linked to the Islamic State. The suspects in the…
3 Reasons This Obscure Country Is a Top ISIS Recruiting Ground
In the past year, jihadists from Tajikistan have been involved in an unusually high number of terrorist attacks or foiled plots linked to the Islamic State. The suspects in the…
Opinion | What Sentencing Could Look Like if Trump Is Found Guilty
For all the attention to and debate over the unfolding trial of Donald Trump in Manhattan, there has been surprisingly little of it paid to a key element: its possible…
An ISIS Terror Group Draws Half Its Recruits From Tiny Tajikistan
The mother of one of the suspects in the bloody attack on a concert hall near Moscow last month wept as she talked about her son. How, she wondered, did…
A Trove of ByteDance Records Mistakenly Went Public. Here’s What They Say.
Somehow, thousands of pages of sealed court documents relating to the birth of TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, were mistakenly released by a Pennsylvania court. Before they were made secret again, I…
Sick of Your Blue State? These Real Estate Agents Have Just the Place for You.
Jen Hubbell became a real estate agent in Greenville, S.C., because she believed a good life started with a good home, and now her phone buzzed regularly with calls from…
Opinion | Tripling the World’s Nuclear Energy Capacity Is a Fantasy
World leaders are not unaware of the nuclear industry’s long history of failing to deliver on its promises, or of its weakening vital signs. Yet many continue to act as…
Mortgage Rates over 7% and Heading Higher, Housing Market Still Frozen, Lots of Buyers on Strike as Prices Still Too High | naked capitalism
Yves here. The sorry and at least until the Fed relents, worsening state the US housing market, undermines the Biden Administration cheerleading over the state of the economy. Many people…
Hoisted from Comments: The Colonialist and Anti-Semitic Origins of Modern Israel | naked capitalism
Yves here. Our Colonel Smithers, a regular commentor who is UK power politics adjacent, recommending republishing a comment by reader vao on how Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide of Gazans…
Trump’s Trial Enters Third Day With 7 Jurors Chosen
Seven jurors down, five more to go. The complicated process of picking a jury in the first criminal trial of an American president will continue for a third day on…