The Threats We're Not Allowed to Name

If you erase the threat, you can ignore the consequences.

The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment released this week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is a troubling document—not because of what it says, but because of what it omits.

Climate change is missing from an official U.S. intelligence assessment of global threats for the first time in years. No mention of it as a "threat multiplie…