The Congo Might See the World’s First “Zombie” Outbreak

The Congo Might See the World’s First “Zombie” Outbreak

Unknown attackers recently torched Ebola treatment centers in the Congo twice in one week. The incidents occurred last Sunday and Wednesday in the conflict-wracked eastern part of the country and were apparently in response to some locals’ suspicions that international aid workers are up to no good. Reuters wrote about this trend last September in…

Mapping the American War on Terror: Now in 80 Countries, It Couldn’t Be More Global

Mapping the American War on Terror: Now in 80 Countries, It Couldn’t Be More Global

In September 2001, the Bush administration launched the “Global War on Terror.” Though “global” has long since been dropped from the name, as it turns out, they weren’t kidding. When I first set out to map all the places in the world where the United States is still fighting terrorism so many years later, I…