Profit, War and Russia’s Growing Prosthetics Sector
The war in Ukraine has vastly increased the need for prosthetics in Russia. The result is an industry that is visibly expanding — financially and statistically — while the system meant to serve amputees becomes more strained, less flexible and increasingly unequal.
How Elon Musk Fuses Rockets and Tech To Shape Modern Society
Quinn Slobodian joins Faisal Al Yafai on The Lede to discuss what Elon Musk reveals about a new era of digital capitalism.
How the Strait of Hormuz Became the World’s Most Contested Waterway
From the Portuguese conquest of 1507 to the end of British policing in 1971, various powers have tried to control the narrow channel between the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.
Dead Soldiers Can Make Babies, But Should They?
Reproductive technologies, and the ambitions embedded within them, are increasingly playing a role in global conflicts. Fertility tech has become a policy tool and opened a new frontier for ethical questions provoked by war, particularly in Israel and Ukraine.
A Progressive Hindu Bloc Emerges in American Politics
A new political formation is taking shape among Hindu Americans, as progressive groups organize around anti-caste laws and opposition to Hindu nationalism.