• Read more about Report Release: Defending American Democracy in the Digital Age

The McCain Institute is pleased to host the launch of the report, “Defending American Democracy in the Digital Age.” This hybrid public event will take place on Wednesday, September 18, from 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. ET at the McCain Institute at the Barrett & O’Connor Center in Washington, D.C. It will also be livestreamed. Written in partnership with the Cronkite School for Journalism and Mass Communication, the report sheds light on the growing threats posed by disinformation campaigns targeting our core institutions and American democratic values. 

• Read more about Carbon Removal Social [Science]

-Mahmud Farooque and Amanda Borth (Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University) on research and engagement

• Read more about Afghanistan: A Look Backward, Forward and Onward

• Read more about Future Security Forum 2024: Global Security in the Next Decade

• Read more about Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims

U.S.-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many might be unaware. In doing so it has become part of the story of the global reverberations of the post-9/11 era. In Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims, journalist Adriana Carranca tells the story of American evangelicals’ mobilization to proclaim Christianity “to the ends of the Earth,” a movement that triumphed in the Global South, challenged the Vatican, and then turned east after 9/11 to spread the Gospel among Muslims.

• Read more about Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan

One of the most difficult security challenges of the post–Cold War era has been stabilizing failing states in an era of irregular warfare. A consistent component of the strategy to address this problem has been security force assistance where outside powers train and advise the host nation’s military. Despite billions of dollars spent, the commitment of thousands of advisors, and innumerable casualties, the American efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq failed catastrophically. Nevertheless, there were pockets of success.

• Read more about 'The Editors' by Stephen Harrison: Wikipedia, internet communities, and the battle for truth in the digital age

Crowd-sourced internet encyclopedias — most famously, Wikipedia — have the power to shape the story we tell about the past and the information with which we move into the future. The people who edit those forums — namely, an army of unpaid volunteers — take their roles seriously. But what happens when that power is manipulated?

• Read more about The Editors by Stephen Harrison: Wikipedia, internet communities, and the battle for truth in the digital age

• Read more about UNSILENCED: A Conversation with Justice Defenders on Shaping Africa’s Future

• Read more about The Climate Action Almanac, with the Center for Climate Literacy

Join the Center for Science and the Imagination and the Center for Climate Literacy at the University of Minnesota to learn about CSI’s recent publication "The Climate Action Almanac." Joey Eschrich, co-editor of the "Almanac," and contributors Anna Pigott and Benjamin Ong will facilitate discussions on climate emotions, guerilla gardening, learning with nature to reclaim spaces for community and joy, and pedagogical practices for engaging diverse and non-Western learners.