How the Taliban flourished during the US war in Afghanistan

Charles Loeb: The Black Reporter Who Exposed an Atomic Bomb Lie

Apple’s Plan to “Think Different” About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life

Where Covax, the Vast Global Vaccine Program, Went Wrong

Remembering Bob Moses, the most important civil rights hero most Americans have never heard of

Behind the Zhiben Solar Farm Controversy - Eastern Taiwan Developmentalism, Settler Colonial Governance, and the Dispossession of Katratripulr Lands - excellent reporting that gets to the heart of the sovereignty issue!

How a solitary prisoner decoded Chinese for the QWERTY keyboard

Why Taiwan Is Beating COVID-19 – Again

There’s no good way of measuring whether your vaccine worked—yet.

Asia’s Anti-Colonialist Journey - After the Russian Revolution, a host of activists saw Communism as the way to end European imperialism.

Contemporary China Centre Blog » What China Studies Scholars Can Do about the Xinjiang Crisis

This is no ordinary spying. Our most intimate selves are now exposed by Arundhati Roy

Operation Fox Hunt: How China Exports Repression Using a Network of Spies Hidden in Plain Sight — ProPublica

The state of next-generation geothermal energy

CDC to reverse indoor mask policy, saying fully vaccinated people should wear them indoors in Covid hot spots

The fascinating history of “Regular Expressions”

CRISPR injected into the blood treats a genetic disease for first time

Why Athletes Are Running Away From the Olympic Refugee Team

Send Vaccines Where People Want Them: Developing Nations

The original “Jungle Gym ” was designed by the father of the inventor - to help his children better comprehend the fourth dimension!

A Link Between Alcohol and Cancer? It’s Not Nearly as Scary as It Seems (From 2017, but still a good introduction to how to think - and write - about risk.)

How Ben Shapiro Is Using Facebook To Build A Business Empire

This Train Crash in Taiwan Killed 49 People. It Didn’t Have to Happen. - The New York Times

‘Everyone is dying’: Myanmar on the brink of decimation

Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher education. (Not so bad in Taiwan, where the costs are lower and many foreign MA students have funding, but I often warn students away from MA programs in the US and UK.)