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Up to 320 Civilians Killed in Pakistan Drone War: Report | Wired News

The number could be as high as 320 innocents, according to an analysis released today by the New America Foundation. That's about a third of the 1000 or so ...
Peter Bergen, Katherine Tiedemann | October 19, 2009

Novel Solution for Saving Afghanistan: Tax the Expats | Wired News

Writing today in the New York Times, Peter Bergen and Sameer Lalwani note that a hefty chunk of the billions in foreign aid flowing to Afghanistan is ...
Peter Bergen, Sameer Lalwani | October 2, 2009

Soviet Doomsday Machine | Wired News

This week's Storyboard Podcast takes a look at two stories in the October issue of Wired: “The Dead Hand” by Nick Thompson and “The ...
Nicholas Thompson | September 30, 2009

Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine

Valery Yarynich glances nervously over his shoulder. Clad in a brown leather jacket, the 72-year-old former Soviet colonel is hunkered in the back of the dimly lit Iron Gate restaurant in Washington, DC. It's March 2009-the Berlin Wall came down two decades ago-but the lean and fit Yarynich is as jumpy as an informant dodging the KGB. He begins to whisper, quietly but firmly.

"The Perimeter system is very, very nice," he says. "We remove unique responsibility from high politicians and… more

Nicholas Thompson | Wired | September 21, 2009

Feds Need Your Broadband Suggestions, Google Says | Wired

Now Google and the New America Foundation want to increase that number even more and are launching a Google Moderator application dedicated to getting input ...
July 16, 2009

And Data for All

The Obama administration's most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet and buried statistic available online, all in one place. For anyone to see. Are you searching for a Food and Drug Administration report that used to be obtainable only through the Freedom of Information Act? Just a mouseclick away. Need National Institutes of Health studies and school testing scores? Click. Census data, nonclassified Defense Department specs, obscure Securities and Exchange Commission files, prison… more

Nicholas Thompson | Wired | June 17, 2009

The Plot to Kill Google

When Google's lawyers entered the smooth marble hallways of the Department of Justice on the morning of October 17, they had reason to feel confident. Sure, they were about to face the antitrust division--an experience most companies dread--to defend a proposed deal with Yahoo. But they had to like their chances. In the previous seven years, only one of the mergers that had been brought here had been opposed. And Google wasn't even requesting a full merger. It just wanted the go-ahead to pursue a small… more

Nicholas Thompson | Wired | January 19, 2009

Parag Khanna in Wired Magazine | 'Parag Khanna: Embrace the Post-American Age'

Here's one view of America circa 2008: The US is a modern-day Roman Empire -- overstretched, underperforming, slowly crumbling into history's dustbin. Here's Parag Khanna's view: Nonsense. The geopolitical wooziness Americans are feeling isn't decline. It's realignment.

In his book The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, Khanna, 31, describes a planet dominated by a trio of superpowers: the US, China, and Europe. In this tripolar era, America's fate depends on tough national choices, not lame historical analogies. If the US wises… more

Parag Khanna | September 22, 2008

Parag Khanna and Fareed Zakaria in Wired | 'The Post-National, Post-American World as a League of Regions'

...Two new books – The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria and The Second World by Parag Khanna – argue that the new global economy power will be more dispersed and multipolar.

"Mr. Zakaria believes we are experiencing modern history's third great power shift, after the rise of the West from the 15th century on, and the rise of the U.S. in the 19th century. But he argues that this latest transition is not so much about the decline of America as… more

Fareed Zakaria, Parag Khanna | June 2, 2008

Pop-Up Cities

Three years ago, Alejandro Gutierrez got a strange and tantalizing message from Hong Kong. Some McKinsey consultants were putting together a business plan for a big client that wanted to build a small city on the outskirts of Shanghai. But the land, at the marshy eastern tip of a massive, mostly undeveloped island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, was a migratory stop for one of the rarest birds in the world -- the black-faced spoonbill, a gangly… more

Douglas McGray | Wired | May 2007