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GOP Senators back Trump on National Guard deployments
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-10 · Newsletter Article · 2,181 words
Government shutdown will stretch into next week
Hype and harm: Why we must ask harder questions about AI and its alignment with human values
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-09 · Article · 3,444 words · PDF available
Whose values should AI align with? Malihe Alikhani explores context-sensitive AI training and deployment to improve safety and fairness
How do tariffs hurt the dollar?
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-09 · Article · 4,673 words · PDF available
Roughly two thirds of countries on Earth stabilize their currency against the U.S. dollar. The relationship has benefits in both directions: Smaller countries enjoy better stability for their national...
Hallways get heated as shutdown continues
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-09 · Newsletter Article · 1,912 words
Democrat-led filibuster blocks funding bill for a sixth time
Donald Trump's digital mercantilism
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-08 · Article · 1,407 words · PDF available
Tom Wheeler discusses how President Trump is seeking to assert dominion over the regulatory sovereignty of other nations for Big Tech.
A Middle East outlook with Senior Fellow Dafna H. Rand
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-08 · Article · 1,331 words
Dafna H. Rand discusses the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy leverage and influence, and America’s role in the world.
SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly impair recession response
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-08 · Article · 5,538 words · PDF available
Lauren Bauer and Diane Schanzenbach analyze how SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will affect the program’s response to recessions.
Speaker flip flops on swearing in new Democrat
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-08 · Newsletter Article · 62 words
Congress treads water as government shutdown rolls on
Reimagining the future of data and AI labor in the Global South
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-07 · Article · 2,121 words · PDF available
Michelle Du and Chinasa Okolo discuss the content moderation and data labeling behind social media and AI platforms.
Ukraine's energy sector is a key battleground in the war with Russia
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-07 · Article · 4,934 words · PDF available
The Ukrainian energy sector has proved to be a key element in the struggle for its sovereignty against Russian aggression.
Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act to deploy troops in big cities
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-07 · Newsletter Article · 2,302 words
Democrats sound alarm: “This is a dangerous moment"
Trump tariffs top the docket as Supreme Court starts new term
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-06 · Newsletter Article · 65 words
Senate returns with no end in sight to shutdown
Government shutdown heads into next week
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-04 · Newsletter Article · 1,098 words
Democrats lead filibuster for a fourth time against stopgap funding bill
The United Nations at 80: Does multilateralism still matter?
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-03 · Article · 3,717 words · PDF available
The 80th UN General Assembly is underway in New York City, in session from just after Labor Day into December. The annual High-Level Week, when world leaders gather, ended in September. To share their...
Recent tariffs threaten residential construction
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-03 · Article · 973 words · PDF available
The U.S. faces a housing shortagemeasured in the millionsof units, and families are struggling with historically high rents and home prices. The Trump administration has expressed agoal to reduce the ...
Shutdown likely to extend into next week
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-03 · Newsletter Article · 1,954 words
Senate to vote again today on House-passed funding bill
Who falls short: The scope and spread of family need
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-02 · Article · 3,171 words
Jeffrey C. Fuhrer documents how rising costs outpaced incomes from 2020 to 2023, leaving many U.S. families unable to meet basic needs.
TikTok may not be Chinese-owned anymore, but there still is a privacy problem
Brookings Institution · 2025-10-02 · Article · 1,354 words
Nicol Turner Lee discusses how President Trump's deal to keep TikTok functional in the U.S. doesn't assuage all privacy concerns.
Senators look for a shutdown off-ramp
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-02 · Newsletter Article · 1,657 words
Democrats again block temporary funding plan in Senate
Trump threatens federal job cuts as shutdown begins
Substack Newsletters · 2025-10-01 · Newsletter Article · 2,068 words
Democrat-led filibuster blocks temporary funding bill in Senate
Congress, Trump steamroll towards a shutdown
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-30 · Newsletter Article · 88 words
Trump uses fake AI video to mock top Democrats
Pete Hegseth’s faux diagnosis of a crisis in America’s warrior spirit
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-29 · Article · 969 words
Hegseth’s first instinct should be to follow the Hippocratic Oath and do no harm to a system and an institution that remain excellent.
Trump to meet top Dems on shutdown
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-29 · Newsletter Article · 88 words
House continues to jam the Senate on 7-week CR
Trump floats new round of farm bailouts
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-26 · Newsletter Article · 2,232 words
Latest Trump tariffs to hit imported drugs, trucks, and furniture
White House ready to use shutdown for mass firings
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-25 · Newsletter Article · 1,664 words
Dems sharpen budget attacks in advance of Oct. 1 funding deadline
The signal and substance of the new Saudi-Pakistan defense pact
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-24 · Article · 2,230 words · PDF available
Countries across the region may rightly view the Saudi-Pakistan defense pact as a hedge against over-dependence on great powers, and may well seek to do the same.
Democrats add back U.S. House seat in Arizona
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-24 · Newsletter Article · 62 words
Trump cancels any shutdown meeting with top Dems
A bromance revived: Erdoğan returns to the White House after 4 years
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-23 · Article · 1,539 words
Erdoğan's White House visit will be a reunion of two leaders with similar views about the global order and who govern with increasingly similar instincts.
Border numbers tick up in August - but remain very low
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-23 · Newsletter Article · 1,805 words
Bipartisan group presses to kill 'coffee tax'
Finger pointing ramps up over shutdown threat
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-22 · Newsletter Article · 89 words
Congress takes another break before the Oct. 1 funding deadline
What's at stake at UNGA 2025?
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-19 · Article · 5,533 words · PDF available
Brookings experts unpack the issues at stake during the 2025 United Nations General Assembly meetings.
Congress ready to go on recess without a CR deal
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-19 · Newsletter Article · 68 words
Trump on TV criticism: "They're not allowed to do that."
House leaders okay extra money for lawmaker security
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-18 · Newsletter Article · 2,268 words
A 'man-bites-dog' kind of day on Capitol Hill
GOP leaders forced to retreat over tariff votes
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-17 · Newsletter Article · 88 words
Republicans roll out 7-week temporary funding plan
House GOP ready to block plans to repeal Trump tariffs
Substack Newsletters · 2025-09-16 · Newsletter Article · 1,991 words
New plan from Republicans would prevent tariff votes until April
Between Washington and Beijing: How Europe fits into US-China strategic competition
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-11 · Article · 3,740 words · PDF available
Six experts offer insights into the complexities shaping U.S.-EU-China triangular dynamics at a moment of global realignment.
Asia must prioritize regional cooperation for economic resilience amid tariff uncertainty
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-08 · Article · 1,787 words
This shift in U.S. trade policy has crucial implications for the resilience of East Asian economies, especially Japan and Taiwan.
The countdown to a Trump-Xi summit
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-02 · Article · 1,615 words
Ultimately, the Trump-Xi summit will not resolve the deep-rooted structural tensions in the U.S.-China relationship.
Europe’s difficult trade-off between military and welfare spending: the Italian case
Brookings Institution · 2025-09-02 · Article · 2,765 words · PDF available
Italy's government faces a difficult trade-off between military and welfare spending, an issue of relevance for several European countries.
The art of the alliance: 3 takeaways from the Trump-Lee summit
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-28 · Article · 911 words
On the surface, the U.S.-South Korea alliance remains robust following the Trump-Lee summit.
Military parades and memory wars: China and Russia commemorate history to reimagine international order
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-27 · Article · 3,092 words · PDF available
Beyond martial splendor and reminders of China's and Russia's contributions to the war effort, these military parades are part of an ongoing “memory war.”
Strobe Talbott's diplomatic legacy
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-25 · Article · 1,816 words
An out-of-the-box thinker, Strobe Talbott was not constrained by conventional wisdom and generally accepted theories.
Beyond the Alaska summit
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-21 · Article · 1,456 words
For now, the outcome of the Alaska and White House summits is that the United States will push to accelerate negotiations to end the war.
The way forward for Ukraine after the Putin summit
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-18 · Article · 890 words
The obstacles to peace between Russia and Ukraine are daunting, and no one should expect major progress anytime soon.
Taiwan after the great recalls: Toward a new political equilibrium?
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-15 · Article · 1,558 words · PDF available
After the recall vote, Taiwan’s political combatants now have an opportunity for a political reset. Let us hope that they seize it.
A challenging moment for the US-India relationship
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-13 · Article · 1,638 words
The current moment’s frictions were predictable, but the challenge is that they have broken in a bad direction for India-U.S. ties.
Avoiding Putin’s trap in Alaska
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-13 · Article · 1,024 words
In Alaska, Putin will seek to trap Trump into embracing Moscow’s key demands for ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
Interwoven frontiers: Energy, AI, and US-China competition
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-11 · Article · 4,483 words · PDF available
The future for energy and emerging technologies is as interwoven—and at times as fraught—as the U.S.-China relationship.
“The Six Assurances to Taiwan Act”: Status quo, or something new?
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-11 · Article · 1,264 words
Giving the Six Assurances legal force could help to stabilize U.S. policy toward the Taiwan Strait at a time of heightened tension.
Taiwan’s recall vote: Implications for Taiwan, China, and the United States
Brookings Institution · 2025-08-01 · Article · 1,652 words
A key question will be whether the KMT will be able to capitalize on this result and build support for its vision for Taiwan’s future.