Contrary to expectations set by the somewhat sensationalist title, this piece offers an insightful unpicking of the geo-political landscape of space exploration, in light of China’s work to catch up with Russian and American capabilities at breakneck speed.
Behind the scenes on the different approaches to hostage negotiations undertaken by governments and private firms around the world.
One of the great biographers writes about his discovery process, writing, and his experience researching the subject of his magnum opus, President Lyndon B. Johnson. Unsurprisingly, it’s a mesmerisingly well-told story.
The story of two American political consultants who helped create attack-based campaign strategies whilst working for Netanyahu, Nixon and others. The piece focuses on how this led them to conceive an anti-George Soros campaign whilst working for Viktor Orbán in Hungary. This definitive ad hominem campaign has since been taken up in numerous other countries and adopted an increasingly virulent anti-Semitic tone.
A pair of jovial scientists seeking to prove the existence of a ninth planet make for a great double act as they scale a mountain in Hawaii to access one of the world’s most powerful telescopes and search the night sky. The author does well to draw out the nobility in their potentially unachievable quest, which could seem quixotic were it not built on such extraordinarily advanced mathematical and astronomical theory.
A look at the small off-the-record team under George H.W. Bush’s command when he was Vice President, formed in response to concerns around an ineffectual national security approach under Ronald Reagan.
A profile of Masayoshi Son, Chairman of SoftBank, and his Vision Fund, a major Silicon Valley power broker with big stakes in numerous household name startups.
This piece examines The Federalist Society, an organisation that it suggests is having a far reaching impact on the American justice system, from the Supreme Court down.
An analysis of the factors that make marketplace businesses work, and what makes them fail, comparing leading examples such as AirBnB, Uber, Alibaba, and Didi.
A piece covering the hornets nest stirred up in scientific and archaeological communities by a paper using DNA analysis to suggest large scale revisions to the story of human migration and habitation over the ages.