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Layoffs at The Washington Post - a heavy blow to a legendary news brand

US TA | AP Insight - February 4, 2026.

The Washington Post laid off one-third of its staff Wednesday, eliminating its sports section, several foreign bureaus and its books coverage in a widespread purge...

The Price of Spectacle in the Epstein Files

US John Sipher - February 2, 2026.

The phrase “release the Epstein files” has such rhetorical power because it promises moral clarity. It offers the public a cathartic moment, exposure, accountability, a...

Escape from Washington - Senators look to start new chapters as governors

US TA | AP Insight - January 29, 2026.

There’s increasingly one place that U.S. senators want to be — anywhere but Washington. Democrat Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota became the fourth sitting senator to seek...

Minnesota as a turning point

US Daron Acemoglu - January 27, 2026.

The Trump administration’s “flood the zone” strategy can make it difficult to see when a turning point occurs in the United States’ slide into authoritarianism. Some...

The US's new defense strategy tells allies to handle their own security

US TA | AP Insight - January 24, 2026.

The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration’s focus...

Americans are not enthusiastic about US military engagement abroad

US TA | AP Insight - January 14, 2026.

More than half of U.S. adults believe President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries, according...

Trump’s war on diplomats is making the US more manipulable on the world stage

US Jan-Werner Mueller - January 13, 2026.

Many elements of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago were disconcerting, if not depressing. For starters, no American official met the...

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