Strange Days
Early evidence suggests smokers are more likely to suffer a severe form of the disease stemming from the novel coronavirus than non-smokers.
EMPIRE OF PODS
Juul has been meeting with international politicians, regulators, and officials to lobby on vaping rules, putting forward health claims it cannot legally make in the U.S.
‘RED FLAGS’
Holding property overseas is not illegal and does not in itself imply any wrongdoing, but concerns are mounting about alleged corruption among some senior Afghan officials.
HORROR
Thirteen injured. Two more dead. The escalating American air war over Afghanistan took one extended family—and shattered it.
SNEAKY
Steve Bannon, David Petraeus, and one of the world’s most controversial PR firms—they’re all part of the web connecting the Iraq war to foreign influence operations in Washington.
THE FORGOTTEN WAR
A series of airstrikes in February left 26 people in Afghanistan dead—including 19 children. To this day, there is no consensus about what happened, and why.
VANISHED
Defeating a hardened insurgent force is already hard. Doing it when many of your ‘troops’ don’t actually exist? That’s practically impossible.
DISAPPEARED
Kidnapped and never seen again: Fighters backed by an American ally are being accused of forced disappearances in Yemen.
WOUNDED WARRIORS
The U.S. has spent more than $70 billion on Afghan security. But the defense against the Taliban is falling to some very unconventional soldiers.
BEYOND FLYNN
It’s not just the president’s disgraced former national security adviser with lobbying ties to Turkey.