Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to seek commitments from his US counterpart, pledging support in his country’s ongoing battle with the Russian Federation.
In charge: a Taliban fighter providing security at Kabul airport, August 2021.
EPA-EFE/stringer
Various armed groups operating in Afghanistan will contest Taliban hegemony.
Sen. Dean Heller, right, and President Donald Trump, who endorsed him, at a rally on Sept. 20, 2018, in Las Vegas. Heller lost the reelection.
Ethan Miller/Getty Images
(L-R) Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) during a meeting on July 27, 2021, of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images
GOP Rep. Liz Cheney says the American people “deserve the full and open testimony of every person with knowledge of the planning and preparation for Jan. 6.” Will they get it?
Misinformation on social media is hindering efforts to vaccinate people against the coronavirus.
Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Combating vaccine misinformation on social media requires blocking sources of misinformation – and giving researchers access to data about how misinformation spreads.
President Biden and Vice President Harris met on Feb. 12, 2021, with governors and mayors to discuss supporting them in the fight against COVID-19.
Pete Marovich-Pool/Getty Images
People can die when the federal government doesn’t work well with state and local governments – the COVID-19 crisis showed that. But the Biden administration has signaled an openness to collaboration.
A voter exits a polling location on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Tom Pennington/Getty Images
A task force of polling experts found surveys notably understated support for Donald Trump, both nationally and at the state level. Here’s what may have gone wrong, according to a polling historian.
The two leaders ignored the most pressing global issue to concentrate on the status quo issues of security and arms control.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, center, greets Gen. Scott Miller, the former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, upon Miller’s July 14, 2021, return to the U.S. at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
Alex Brandon - Pool/Getty Images
A scholar and practitioner of foreign policy and national security offers personal and professional perspectives on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Donald Trump at a press conference to announce a class action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, Google and their CEOs.
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
Former President Trump is asking the courts to do what tycoon Trump once would have denounced: tell some of America’s most powerful corporations that they have no choice who they do business with.
President Joe Biden speaks about the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 on Feb. 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
The federal government sent a lot of money to states to help with an anticipated COVID-related economic downturn. Turns out, states did not need that much money – but they may spend it anyway.
Amid strong political pressure to pack the Supreme Court, President Biden formed a commission to study ways to reform the court.
Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Presidents form commissions to study controversial problems and recommend solutions. President Biden created one while under pressure to pack the Supreme Court. Will a commission help him politically?
After 20 years in Afghanistan and many promises made, the U.S. does hold responsibility for Afghans’ fate, including their human right to access education.
The Vatican has warned U.S. bishops not to deny Communion to President Biden.
L'Osservatore Romano/Pool photo via AP
A debate over whether President Biden’s views on abortion disqualify him from taking Communion serves to expose a rift between US bishops and the pope, and is a threat to the church itself.
Ford calls its all-electric F-150 Lightning “the truck of the future.”
Ford
Ford’s electric F-150 pickup won’t roll off assembly lines until early 2022, but the company has received thousands of preorders already for a vehicle aimed at the mass market, not eco-buyers.
Since Tyre Nichols’ death there are renewed calls for Congress to pass police reform legislation. But the federal government has almost no control over state and local police departments.
Stripped of benefits, some former prisoners are forced to rely on charity.
Chandan KhannaA/AFP via Getty Images)
Formerly incarcerated Americans face food insecurity rates double that of the general population. A 1996 law that prohibits drug felons from getting crucial benefits may be partially to blame.
Navy veteran Faron Smith Jr. reacts as he receives a COVID-19 vaccination at a Veterans Administration pop-up vaccination site on April 17, 2021, in Gardena, Calif.
Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
To cut enough greenhouse gas emissions, the world will need technologies that are still being developed, particularly for industries that are tough to clean up, like cement, steel and shipping.