• U.S. Grounds All Flights to Haiti for a Month After Planes Hit by Gunfire

    The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered the cancellation of all flights to Haiti for a month after two jets of U.S. airline companies were hit by gunfire while flying over Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince.

  • Houthis’ Lesson for the U.S. Army: How a Land Force Can Fight a Maritime War

    By Andrew Rolander

    The US Army should consider borrowing a page from the playbook of Yemen’s Houthi militants. The character of war is always changing, and the Houthis’ ongoing attacks against shipping in the Red Sea may prove to be one of the more significant inflection points in military history.

  • Trump’s Immigration Policies Made America Less Safe. Here’s the Data.

    By David J. Bier

    New data reveal that Trump was the one whose immigration policies damaged the country’s security. In fact, he released more convicted criminals into the United States than his successor. This is not to lend credence to Trump’s efforts to demonize immigrants as dangerous or violent. Data shows that immigrants — both legal and illegal — are at least half as likely as citizens to be incarcerated for crimes committed in the United States.

  • How AI Can Enhance the Accuracy of Eyewitness Identification

    By Katy Marquardt Hill

    AI and natural language processing can provide deeper insights into eyewitness reliability. “Just because someone says they’re confident doesn’t mean they’re right. The worst mistakes come from highly confident witnesses who are actually wrong,” one expert said.

  • Against Hyping Civil War and Mass Violence

    By John S. Hollywood

    The hype across media about the prospect of another U.S. civil war needs a response. Taking steps to prevent and prepare for violence always makes sense, but it should not be viewed as a suggestion that the United States is on the brink of civil war. Don’t believe—or spread—these false narratives.

  • Artificial Intelligence Means Better, Faster and More for First Responders

    Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) hold tremendous potential to enable first responders to better process information and drive faster and more precise response. However, these capabilities present certain risks.

  • Amid Hurricane Milton’s Devastation, a Sliver of Good News

    By Anna Lamb

    Earlier this month Hurricane Milton caused an estimated $50 billion in damage and claimed the lives of at least 14 people, yet didn’t deliver the scale of destruction some had feared. Cellphone data suggest evacuation mandates, warning systems worked.

  • Beefing Up Border Patrol Is a Bipartisan Goal, but the Agency Has a Troubled History of Violence and Impunity

    By Ragini Shah

    On border policy, Trump and Harris have remarkably similar positions: They want to send more money, Border Patrol agents and technology to the U.S.-Mexico border. Yet, as my research on the history of border enforcement reveals, flooding the zone with funding, law enforcement and technology will not necessarily make the border safer.

  • The History of WIPP

    By Kim Vallez Quintana

    In 1975, the nation asked Sandia to investigate the possibility of building a repository in New Mexico for the disposal of radioactive transuranic defense waste. Little did those assigned to the project know that the task would absorb most of their careers and become one of the most controversial and important projects in U.S. history.

  • Concerns about Elon Musk, Russia's Putin Not Fading Yet

    By Jeff Seldin

    Reports that billionaire Elon Musk has been talking on a consistent basis with Russian President Vladimir Putin are cause of concern. Musk’s companies are doing work for the Pentagon NASA. Some of that work is so sensitive that Musk has been given high-level security clearances due to his knowledge of the programs, raising concerns among some that top secret U.S. information and capabilities could be at risk.

  • Vietnam Expands Strategic Capabilities in South China Sea

    By RFA Staff

    Hanoi is building runways, military structures on reclaimed islands at a ‘surprising’ pace, a think tank said.

  • Threatening ‘The Enemy Within’ with Force: Military Ethicists Explain the Danger to Important American Traditions

    By Marcus Hedahl and Bradley Jay Strawser

    In a time of increasing political polarization, military educational institutions are focusing even more explicitly on the oath military members take to the Constitution, rather than to a person or an office. Military members have a duty to obey orders from superior officers, but the content of an order is not the only factor that determines whether it is a moral one. The political motivation for an order may be equally important, because the military’s obligation to stay out of politics is deeply intertwined with the mutual obligation of civilian officials not to use the military for partisan reasons.

  • U.K. Courts Are Getting It Wrong on Eyewitness Evidence: Study

    A ‘pivotal shift’ in how UK Courts view eyewitness evidence is needed according to new research. Researchers found an almost unanimous shift in beliefs about the relationship between eyewitness confidence and accuracy.

  • Antisemitic Agitators Aided by UCLA Say Students, Professor, Task Force

    By Shirleen Guerra, The Center Square

    Three Jewish students from UCLA, alongside a Jewish professor, have filed an amended complaint regarding their lawsuit against the university, saying it played a role in helping antisemitic agitators exclude them from campus.

  • Threats of Political Violence Are Distorting Reality

    By Will Van Sant

    Mobilizations by extremist groups in 2024 are on track to be at their lowest level since 2020, according to a new report, but public officials — particularly those who work on elections — continue to face hostile threats.