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Headlining a conference for Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit he previously led that regularly spreads vaccine misinformation, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a litany of familiar false and misleading claims, particularly about vaccines. For a few months earlier this year, Kennedy had largely stopped talkingContinue Reading

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In the years following the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, much of the world treated the region as strategically peripheral – unstable, exhausted, and largely disconnected from the future of global security. Policymakers assumed the consequences of state collapse and civil war would remain regionally contained. They did not. The vacuumContinue Reading