Slowly but surely, electric cars and trucks are taking over American highways. And asutility companies hurry to expand the number of charging stations — a critical step for the EV transition — the future of the gas station is in doubt. And since EV chargers can be installed in almost any...
America’s Hesitation Is Heartbreaking
The United States and its NATO allies are engaged in a proxy war with Russia. They are supplying thousands of munitions and hopefully doing much else—sharing intelligence, for example—with the intent of killing Russian soldiers. Thus far the Biden administration has done an admirable job of winning the information war,...
Chinese Medics Killed Death Row Inmates by Taking Hearts: Report
Hundreds of Chinese surgeons and medical personnel have been accused of killing death row prisoners by removing their hearts for transplant even before the inmates had been officially declared dead, in a new academic paper. A forensic review of 2,838 reports in Chinese scientific journals revealed 71 cases where...
While Putin Commits War Crimes, Israel Is Still Walking on Eggshells
More than six weeks have passed since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. Despite atrocities that are are visible to all, Israel is still taking an ultra-cautious position. It took two days of public hemming and hawing before Israeli cabinet ministers explicitly uttered the name of Russia as the...
Romney Was Right About Putin
In 2012, Mitt Romney sat across a table from President Barack Obama for their final debate in that year's presidential election. The theme of the night was foreign policy and Obama’s campaign had been working all year to cast Romney as out of touch and inexperienced. “A few months...
China Makes Semi-Secret Delivery of Missiles to Serbia
Russian ally Serbia took the delivery of a sophisticated Chinese anti-aircraft system in a veiled operation this weekend, amid Western concerns that an arms buildup in the Balkans at the time of the war in Ukraine could threaten the fragile peace in the region. The Chinese missile system has...
Ian Bremmer: Authoritarians Gone Wild
Political scientist Yascha Mounk says we're in a new era of naked power politics. That means Vladimir Putin doesn’t care what you think anymore about his blind ambition. And he really doesn’t have to because authoritarians like him are on the rise. In the latest episode of GZERO World,...
Zakaria: Right-Wing Populists Are Thriving — Even When They’re Friends of Putin
When Russia launched its attack on Ukraine, a wide variety of commentators believed there was at least one silver lining in this catastrophic cloud. Vladimir Putin’s assault on the liberal order, they hoped, would expose and delegitimize the illiberal, populist forces that have been surging for years. Alas, six weeks...
Satellite Photo Shows Russian Troops Were Stationed in Chernobyl’s Radioactive Zone
During its occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear site, Russia appears to have stationed troops in an area of high radioactive contamination, according to new satellite imagery from the company Planet. The decision raises the possibility that Russia exposed its own soldiers to potentially unhealthy levels of radioactivity during its...
Putin’s Daughters Were Just Sanctioned. Here’s What We Know About Them
Among the latest sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine are penalties aimed at President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters. The eldest, Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, was born in 1985, and works as a pediatric endocrinologist and genetics researcher. She leads state-funded programs that have received billions of dollars...