David Von Drehle

Beware the Long-lost Threat of Inflation

For nearly a decade, inflation hawks such as yours truly have been the stopped clocks of economic forecasting — except that we’re still waiting to be right once, much less twice, a day. As central banks throughout the developed world ran their money-printers furiously in hopes of jolting the…

The Energy Revolution has Already Begun

Between the science-denying trolls who say climate change is a hoax and the we’re-all-doomed Cassandras who picture the last human remnant escaping to Mars, there is an exciting frontier. It’s populated by people too busy making progress to indulge in political shouting matches. Likely for the…

The Disinformation Factory Threatening National Security

A sobering paper published in the winter edition of Strategic Studies Quarterly — the strategy journal of the US Air Force — explains how propagandists manipulate social media in their cyberwars against the United States. Hostile forces, employing automated bots, leverage the blind spots and biases…

We’re at Cyberwar

The United States and its allies are under attack. The cyberwar we’ve feared for a generation is well underway, and we are losing. This is the forest, and the stuff about Russian election meddling, contacts with the Trump campaign, phony Twitter accounts, fake news on Facebook — those things are…