• After Oval Office disaster, Europe emerges as Ukraine’s best hope

    After Oval Office disaster, Europe emerges as Ukraine’s best hope
    Hours after a heated disagreement in the Oval Office between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, America’s sudden retreat from a democracy-forward foreign policy took dramatic form a bit further down Pennsylvania Avenue. Between 14th and 12th Street, a small group of protestors—children and dogs in tow—held signs in support of fired USAID workers leaving the former headquarters of the largely-dismantled agency. Across the street, diplomats,
  • Comply with the next ‘what you did last week’ email, Hegseth tells Pentagon civilians

    Comply with the next ‘what you did last week’ email, Hegseth tells Pentagon civilians
    The Defense Department’s civilian employees can expect a second email asking them to lay out what they did the previous week—and this time, they must respond, the defense secretary said in a Thursday memo to his workforce.The 189-word memo—Defense One obtained a copy—aims to avert a repeat of the confusion and stress imposed last Saturday by an unexpected tweet from billionaire Elon Musk and an email from the Office of Personnel Management, both of which demanded that the

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