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A senator thinks we’re preparing for one battle with Russia while they’re defeating us in another. Simon Parkin reports on the diplomats and officers who take their war games seriously. (article)
A prominent senator thinks that while we’re preparing for one battle with Russia, they’re defeating us in another. Plus, more deep thoughts from the former “Saturday Night Live” writer. (episode)
The vice-chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee fears that, with Russia, we’re confronting twenty-first-century threats with twentieth-century tools.
War-gaming is an old and low-tech tool, but officers and diplomats still turn to it to model today’s most complex geopolitical situations.
An Iraqi-born journalist and poet of war tells the stories of women who were kidnapped by the Islamic State, enslaved, and then rescued.
The novelist Michael Cunningham finds the essential parts of the human experience on display during a quick stroll through Washington Square Park.
Why is a man slipping on a banana peel funny, but not as funny as a man choking on a banana peel? Jack Handey considers this and other mysteries.