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DECODING: Hegseth conditions US troops: the Eastern Flank held hostage
On June 18, 2026, in the conference room at NATO headquarters in Brussels, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a speech that confronted European…
COMMENTARY: A Zelensky-Putin Meeting? The Dictator's Friends Have Received the Message
On June 26, 2026, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed what some diplomats have been whispering for weeks: Ukraine had transmitted proposals not only to its…
PROFILE: Mark Rutte, the Man Holding NATO Together Against Trump
There is one image that captures the state of the Atlantic Alliance in 2026 better than any other: a man in a quietly tailored…
OPINION: The Roman telescope at Kennedy Space Center — America looks to the stars, Europe burns
On June 22, 2026, the NASA barge Pegasus docked at Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying something remarkable: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope,…
INVESTIGATION: DOGE Is Dead, Long Live DOGE? What Musk's Departure Leaves in the Federal Bureaucracy
On June 25, 2026, Elon Musk announced on his social network X that his time as a "Special Government Employee" was coming to an…
COMMENTARY: USMCA and Trump — When Commercial Isolationism Threatens Midwest Farms
July 1, 2026 marks the sixth anniversary of the entry into force of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trade deal that Donald Trump…
OPINION: Trump Calls Green Credits a "Scam" — $369 Billion Sacrificed to Climate Denial
In July 2025, President Donald Trump signed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA) — a law that, among other measures, accelerates the phase-out…
DECODING: Green Credits in the Big Beautiful Bill — How Trump Is Dismantling Biden's IRA
Since President Donald Trump called the clean energy tax credits included in the Senate version of the One Big Beautiful Bill a "giant SCAM"…
EDITORIAL: The Big Beautiful Bill at 51-49 — the Senate on the Trumpian razor's edge
Late in the night of Saturday June 28, 2026, after a vote held open for more than four hours in a tension that gripped…