Reading archive 2021-09-25

Canada’s ‘two Michaels’ back home after more than 1,000 days imprisoned in China as Huawei’s Meng cuts deal with U.S.

China’s ‘hostage diplomacy’ standoff with Canada is over. But how much damage was done?

Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep their identities secret: The colossal hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular with the far right, has been called the “mother of all data lodes” for extremism researchers. Some of those named in the data have already lost their jobs.

Taliban hang body in public; signal return to past tactics

Afghans arrived near a small Virginia town, exposing two different versions of America - "Moore said he has found himself feeling afraid even to be walking around Blackstone, and some nights found himself wondering if an invasion was possible. 'I keep a pistol on me all the time,' he said, 'because you don’t know what’s going to happen.'"