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A close-up of Gavin Newsom standing in shadows as he speaks at a press conference.

The California Recall Election Could Wreck the Country

Gavin Newsom’s wayward political career is not the biggest thing at stake.

Editor’s Picks

Inside the Paranoid, Highly Excitable Ecosystem of the Vaccine Card Black Market

The person you’re trying to fool with that phony card is likely just an overtired bartender or HR administrator newly deputized into our chaotic public health infrastructure.

An Afghan man has his photograph taken for facial biometric information at the passport office in Kabul.

Jacob Silverman

The Surveillance State That the U.S. Left Behind in Afghanistan

The Taliban may have access to American-made technology built to wage a Forever War. That’s only half the problem.