The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough

Inside the rush to recruit, train, and deploy a new generation of cybersecurity experts to protect and defend our digital borders.

Divided by geography, cursed by corruption, stunted by poverty, staggered by a growing insurgency—Afghanistan seems beyond salvation. Is it?

Raised as Scientologists, Christie King Collbran and her husband, Chris, were recruited as teenagers to work for the elite corps of staff members who keep the Church of Scientology running, known as the Sea Organization, or Sea Org. But after 13 years and growing disillusionment, the Collbrans decided to leave the Sea Org, setting off on a Kafkaesque journey that they said required them to sign false confessions about their personal lives and their work, pay the church thousands of dollars it said they owed for courses and counseling, and accept the consequences as their parents, siblings and friends who are church members cut off all communication with them.

The sadistic Afghan warlord who wants to be our friend.

While I witnessed these early stages of ecocide, I imagined that American green groups were on these people’s side in the corridors of Capitol Hill, trying to stop the Weather of Mass Destruction. But it is now clear that many were on a different path—one that began in the 1980s, with a financial donation.

Timothy Geithner’s financial plan is working—and making him very unpopular.

An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens

Over the past two decades Hanks has become American history’s highest-profile professor, bringing a nuanced view of the past into the homes and lives of countless millions.

A Detroit neighborhood fights for its life, and an ex-cop leads the way