Category: Top coverage

Haring joins PBS NewsHour to discuss the EU migrant crisis across the Poland-Belarus border

"Lukashenko has orchestrated the migrant crisis on the border, and it's retribution for EU sanctions," said Melinda Haring on PBS NewsHour.

Graham Brookie and Jared Holt featured in The Washington Post’s interactive piece on the January 6 insurrection

A three-part immersive series from The Washington Post examining Jan 6 and its fallout featuring the Digital Forensic Research Lab's Graham Brookie and Jared Holt.

Ahmad in The Wall Street Journal: How Pakistan won in Afghanistan

"For decades Islamabad played a double game, hosting the Taliban while posing as a US partner," writes Javid Ahmad in the Wall Street Journal.

The Atlantic Council and Jeffrey M. Talpins Foundation’s N7 Summit mentioned in the Jewish Insider

The two-day conference that ended on Wednesday, named N7 — N for normalization and 7 for the number of participating countries —  was hosted by the Jeffrey M. Talpins Foundation and the Atlantic Council, the culmination of six months of planning. 

Binnendijk and Vershbow in Defense News: Needed: A transatlantic agreement on European strategic autonomy

By Hans Binnendijk, Alexander Vershbow

Hans Binnendijk and Alexander Vershbow write that the United States should drop its objections, agree with its European allies on how to ensure that strategic autonomy results in greater European strategic responsibility, and then embed that agreement in both NATO’s new strategic concept and the European Union’s new strategic compass.

Haddad in the Financial Times: Europe must wean itself off US defence to reset transatlantic relations

"American priorities are shifting under Joe Biden and the quicker the EU boosts its own ‘strategic autonomy’ the better," writes Benjamin Haddad in the Financial Times.

Kathy Baughman McLeod quoted in The New York Times on the effort to name heatwaves

Heat waves are "quietly, perniciously killing more people than any other climate-driven hazard," says Kathy Baughman McLeod in The New York Times.

Wechsler and Lipsky in The Wall Street Journal: “Will the IMF Bankroll the Taliban?”

By Atlantic Council

"The first real test of whether the Taliban will be accepted by the international community will happen in the IMF boardroom," write Josh Lipsky and William Wechsler in the WSJ.

Friedman in The Atlantic: Germany Found a Way to Reduce Polarization. Could It Work in the US?

"The country’s robust investment in public media has helped it reduce political divisions," writes Uri Friedman in The Atlantic

Marshall in Politico: Surprise Gifts, Security Details and Secret Smoke Breaks: The Art of Planning a Presidential Summit

"No matter the geopolitical crisis, no matter the weight of uncertainty, it is protocol that carefully and intentionally deploys predictability and mutual respect to hold the world’s weightiest relationships in place," writes Capricia Marshall in Politico.