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NATO Secretary Mark Rutte meets with President Donald Trump on June 24, 2026 (White House Gallery). On July 7-8, the heads of all 32 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will convene in Ankara, Turkey. These high-level NATO summits used to be rare. During the Cold War, NATO held only eight heads of state and government summits. But since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, NATO heads of state have convened seven times. Officially, there is not much new on NATO’s agenda.

Home > News > 250 years later, the British still aren’t so hot on American independence 250 years later, the British still aren’t so hot on American independence A minority says American independence was a good thing.

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Lisa D. Cook is sworn in as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, May 23, 2022 (cc) Federal Reserve. The Supreme Court this week overturned a nearly century-old legal precedent, ruling in Trump v. Slaughter that presidents have a constitutional right to fire government regulators at will. Bundled with the Slaughter decision, however, the Court in Trump v.

Image created on Canva. We are thrilled to announce the third cohort of Good Authority fellows. We look forward to sharing with you their insights across the wide range of their expertise, from opposition parties to inequality and organized crime as well as activist exiles, among other topical areas. Our fellows’ research and expertise offer more coverage and analysis on important events in Africa, Latin America, Asia, Eastern Europe and, of course, the United States.

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash. In 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat, decided to fire William Humphrey, a Republican commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

The White House hosts a Pride celebration on June 10, 2023, on the South Lawn of the White House (official White House photo by ). As the United States gears up to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding, debates over Pride Month reveal a larger struggle over national identity.

Photo by David Restrepo on Unsplash. Colombians returned to the polls this spring, facing a choice the candidates framed as stark: peace or war against organized crime. But Colombia’s history and the nearly even vote split between the presidential candidates in the June 21 run-off election suggest a false dichotomy.

U.S. Capitol (cc) Daniel Mennerich. On June 23, the Senate joined the House in passing a bipartisan resolution directing the president to withdraw U.S. armed forces from the hostilities in Iran unless legislators specifically authorize the fighting. The House had passed the same resolution on June 3. The resolution is mostly symbolic, but important nonetheless. For one thing, it clearly shows that Congress opposes the Iran war.

Image generated by ChatGPT. Since 2000, Gallup has asked Americans whether they consider a range of personal behaviors and certain policies to be morally acceptable or morally wrong. Many, but not all, of these are in the domains of sex and reproduction. The most recent survey that included these questions was conducted in May 2026.