Russia, battered by the dueling crises of a coronavirus pandemic and economic slump, could really use a Sputnik moment. Will Sputnik V, its new and still largely untested vaccine, deliver the same boost in prestige as the original Sputnik did 63 years ago?

What’s a former elite Israeli secret agent looking for new career opportunities supposed to do? To answer that question, The New Yorker profiled Psy-Group, a company comprising former Israeli intelligence agents who applied their well-honed spycraft skills to creating a now-familiar mix of fake social media accounts and inflammatory websites in an attempt to sway … Continued

At least one group of political operatives in the United States thought it was a good idea to emulate the Russian active measures campaign that tried to tip the last presidential election to Donald Trump. In this case, however, the sought after electoral prize was a Democratic US Senate victory in the deeply Republican state … Continued

A collection of pieces from the Bulletin's coverage of the 2024 US election, carefully curated for the benefit of Americans and concerned citizens around the world who have limited reading time between now and Election Day.

Every so often, a story published on the front page of the New York Times is so well written, meaningful, and appropriate to the Bulletin’s concerns that small snippets of it, properly chosen and arranged, produce something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry. That blessed coincidence occurred February 1, 2021. We suspect it’ll … Continued

Stay calm on Election Day with these tips from the people who averted nuclear war.

The final presidential debate of the 2020 campaign is upon us, and so is the Bulletin's existential threat scorecard.

Whether on trade, technology, or Taiwan, the United States and China appear on a collision course: How the investigation into COVID-19's origins is adding fuel to an already raging fire.

Something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry.

Something more than journalism, something that approaches … poetry.

When did the president catch the virus, and who could he have given it to?

The incentives for election meddling will be even higher in 2020, and social media is still awash with disinformation and fake news. Fact-checking, one of Facebook's key efforts to confront the problems, can actually backfire. Some fake-news peddlers actually seem to like getting fact-checked.

The coronavirus pandemic is yet another example of how agricultural, environmental, human, and animal health are connected. A new federal agency that recognizes these linkages is necessary to stop future pandemic diseases from spilling over from the natural world.

Alicia Sanders-Zakre, the policy and research coordinator at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, suggests that the 2024 US presidential candidates be asked whether they will join the international effort to ban nuclear weapons.