March special issue: What to do about Taiwan

What We’re Reading

office worker and tank Prague Spring 68

Ukraine 2022: Flashback to Crimea 1993? Prague Spring 1968?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, What We’re Reading

Best of the Bulletin, 2021: Beyond words

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin. 208 pages. Candlewick Press. Ages 10 and up.

The Genius Under the Table: A poignant children’s book set in the Cold War

By Susan D’Agostino | Book Review, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, What We’re Reading

Trump tweet about global warming

Trump to Paris Agreement: Drop dead

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

mother and child up to waist in floodwaters

New climate research suggests worse coastal flooding—sooner

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photos by gloucester2gaza and Julian Hertzog via Wikimedia Commons. CY BY-SA 2.0 / CC BY 4.0. Stylized.

Top US Army official: Build AI weapons first, then design safety

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, What We’re Reading

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.

New poll: Iranians are souring on the nuclear deal and don’t want a new one

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

An interactive look at the algorithm powering the justice system

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Sulphur wild horse in Southwestern Utah

Trump official says wild horses, not climate change, are “existential threat” to federal lands

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Erdogan and Trump shake hands

Getting the nukes out of Turkey: A how-to guide

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Trump’s former Russia expert to speak before Congress Monday. Here are her thoughts about Putin.

By Dan Drollette Jr | What We’re Reading

Dirty Smokestack

20 companies, 33 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, What We’re Reading