Uganda’s vicious anti-LGBT law reflects foreign influences—but not ones the country’s homophobes decry

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Uganda’s vicious anti-LGBT law reflects foreign influences—but not ones the country’s homophobes decry
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Today on “The Intelligence”: the roots of Uganda’s vicious anti-LGBT law, why Starlink worries China’s army, and a resurgence of pinball machines

THE COUNTRY’S homophobes claim that homosexuality is a malign foreign import; in reality it was anti-LGBT groups from abroad who helped lay the

ground for vicious new legislation. Starlink, a satellite-internet constellation, has given Ukraine a battlefield advantage; we ask why that has China’s army

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