Analysis & Opinion

A new kind of battlefield awaits the U.S. military – megacities

The nearly five-year civil war in Syria has exposed some of the difficulties that military forces have conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance against terrorists and insurgents in crowded urban environments.

Corporations may be progressive, but that still doesn’t make them people

The problem is not a corporation speaking up but rather using its wealth in a way that gives it too much sway over the political process.

With new deal, a refugee’s rights come down to luck

If Turkey is a crowded departure hall to a better life, Greece is now a transit lounge for those who’ve missed their connection. Many will never move onward to northern Europe; others will only move backward.

A cyber attack turned out the lights on 80,000. What can stop the next one?

U.S. officials and other cyber security experts say the Ukraine attack represented something they had long believed possible but had never yet seen demonstrated -- a deliberate external cyber attack that shut down critical national infrastructure on which large numbers of civilians depend.