Europe’s looming Ukraine fear: What happens if the US pulls back?

Europe is wak­ing up to a trou­bling real­i­ty: It may soon lose its NATO bene­fac­tor in Ukraine.  With con­ser­v­a­tives poised to make gains in the upcom­ing U.S. elec­tions, NATO’s most gen­er­ous donor to Ukraine’s war effort may sud­den­ly seem much more par­si­mo­nious in 2023. The pos­si­bil­i­ty has put the spot­light on the gap between Amer­i­can and…

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Major newspaper company to stop endorsing political candidates

This sto­ry, plus the Twit­ter-Musk tri­al stalls as pro­posed deal looms, a look at research on alter­na­tive social media sites, how news orga­ni­za­tions are grap­pling with cov­er­ing demon­stra­tions in Iran and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Oct 6, 2022Major news­pa­per com­pa­ny will stop endors­ing nation­al and statewide can­di­datesKatie Robert­son / The New […] The…

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Europe’s American president: The paradox of Ursula von der Leyen

Europe’s Amer­i­can pres­i­dent: The para­dox of Ursu­la von der Leyen Euro­pean Com­mis­sion chief’s top-down approach has endeared her to Wash­ing­ton but alien­at­ed col­leagues in Brus­sels. By Suzanne Lynch and Ilya Grid­neff Illus­tra­tion by Lucas Pev­er­ill for POLITICO Ursu­la von der Leyen’s whirl­wind tour of the Unit­ed States start­ed in New York at the Unit­ed Nations General…

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How Kenya’s Mpesa Enables and Unifies

Once upon a time, com­mu­ni­ca­tion used to be through smoke sig­nals. Slow­ly but sure­ly human evo­lu­tion brought with it the gad­get we now know as the tele­phone. His name was Alexan­der Gra­ham Bell, a Scot­tish-born inven­tor, sci­en­tist, and engi­neer who was cred­it­ed with patent­ing the first prac­ti­cal tele­phone. No one was pre­pared for how rapidly…

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