Trump’s Hot New Critical Minerals Club (Christina Lu, Foreign Policy) The U.S. administration is seeking to form a trade bloc with countries that it has otherwise scorned.

How Autocrats Meddle with Elections (Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic) The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.

The Only Thing That Will Turn Measles Back (Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic) A rebound in vaccination—which may depend on government support ...

Countdown to an Arms Race (Tom Nicholds, The Atlantic) The last significant nuclear-arms-control treaty is about to expire, and Trump isn’t putting anything in its place.

The Ghosts of Neocons Past: Stabilization and Reconstruction in the Donald Trump Era (Joshua Yaphe, National Interest) The Middle East conflicts that the administration thought it had resolved are ...

Several States Move to Ban Local Cooperation in Immigration Arrests (Katie Mettler, Katie Shepherd and Emmanuel Martinez, Washington Post) Democrats are pursuing bills to prohibit 287 (g) agreements ...

The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks (Adam Serwer, The Atlantic) Face coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.

Welcome to the ‘Mad Max’ World Order (Steven M. Radil and Raphael Parens, Foreign Policy) How a runaway uranium convoy encapsulates the collapse of global rules. Xi Jinping’s Purge Should Worry the ...

The Real ‘Civilizational Erasure’ Is Happening in America (Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Policy) Trump’s expansion of state power undermines the West’s core achievement: limits on authority. The Blurred ...

Could Shifting Borders Be a Good Thing? (Steven A. Cook, Foreign Policy) A redrawing of maps in Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere might serve U.S. interests.

How Trump Became a Liability for Europe’s Far Right (Jeanna Smialek, Koba Ryckewaert, and Catherine Porter, New York Times) Europe’s nationalist leaders once saw President Trump as an ideological ally ...