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A NATO Promise Not to Enlarge? Not according to Putin 1.0

Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in his end-of-the-year press conference that Western “promises that they had given us about refraining from expanding NATO were...

Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability to Use New Science to Strengthen Air Pollution Rules

Ethylene oxide was once considered an unremarkable pollutant. The colorless gas seeped from relatively few industrial facilities and commanded little public attention.  All that changed...

RFK Jr.’s Next Move Is What Anti-Vaxxers Have Been Waiting For

Nearly a year ago, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged during his confirmation hearing to support the CDC’s childhood-vaccine schedule. Yesterday, he broke...

The Big Story: Venezuela and a Warning for Other World Leaders

The Atlantic contributor and renowned foreign-policy scholar Robert Kagan will discus the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela with the Atlantic staff writer Vivian Salama....

The Era of AI-Orchestrated Hacking Has Begun: Here’s How the United States Should Respond

On Nov. 13, Anthropic announced it had disrupted the “first AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign,” conducted by Chinese cyber actors using its agentic Claude Code...

Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative.

Reporting Highlights No Agreement on Standards: Drug test results are often based on discretionary standards. The level of drugs at which a test is considered...

After Venezuela, Who’s Next?

Welcome back to World Brief, the first edition of 2026! Today, we’re looking at threats of U.S. intervention around the world, South Korea’s budding...

Trump’s Retro Imperialism

President Donald Trump’s fans like to cheer on his most audacious moves by declaring, “I voted for this.” It is safe to assume, though,...

The Epstein Files and the Seven Member Rule

With passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November, the American public received a crash course on an archaic congressional mechanism known as the discharge...

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