August 16, 2022

Terror, Redux

On Monday, the Taliban marked the first anniversary of their takeover of Afghanistan with a national holiday, small victory parades and televised speeches boasting of their “great achievements” over the past year, the Associated Press reported. “We fulfilled the obligation of jihad and liberated our country,”...

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August 16, 2022

The General’s Generals

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is attempting to introduce a constitutional amendment to extend the military’s control over policing, a move that many critics called a slide toward authoritarianism, the Associated Press reported. López Obrador proposed plans to make the quasi-military National Guard a part...

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August 16, 2022

A Ritual Silence

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida sent a ritual offering to a controversial World War II shrine in the capital on Monday, a monument that has drawn criticism from Japan’s wartime victims, South Korea and China, the Guardian reported. The offering was made to Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine...

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August 16, 2022

Smooching Fossils

The spread of the herpes virus began thousands of years ago when kissing became popular among ancient humans, Live Science reported. The Herpes simplex virus 1 – or HSV-1 – is a very common type of pathogen that mainly causes cold sores around the lips but...

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