Tag: USA

The United States and Senegal: 60 Years of Partnership (US Department of State)

Secretary Antony J. Blinken will travel to Senegal on November 19-20, where he will meet with President Macky Sall and Foreign Minister Aïssata Tall...

State of the space industrial base 2021: Building space infrastructure and services for security and prosperity (Atlantic Council)

Militaries, economies, and societies are increasingly dependent on services offered from space. Indeed, commerce through and enabled by space applications make up an increasing...

Rural America’s False Sense of Security (Olga Khazan, The Atlantic)

Every few months throughout the pandemic, Wesley Thompson, a communications consultant in Washington, D.C., has driven to Indiana with his wife and two kids...

Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country (Cheryl W. Thompson, Cristina Kim, Natalie Moore, Roxana Popescu,...

Inga Selders, a city council member in a suburb of Kansas City, wanted to know if there were provisions preventing homeowners from legally having...

Big tech’s critics flocking again to Oracle’s home on the Hill (Emily Birnbaum, Politico)

The movement inside Congress to curb tech titans like Amazon and Google is drawing energy from an unlikely hub of anti-Silicon Valley fervor: a...

New York City Is Building a Wall of Oysters to Fend Off Floods (Julia Hotz, Bloomberg)

A row of plastic bins sits in a gravel lot next to Brooklyn’s Domino Park promenade; each holds small pieces of New York City’s...

Biden Electric Car Plan Would Boost Detroit, Anger Allies (Agence France-Press, IndustryWeek)

President Biden's proposal to reward electric cars made at U.S. union shops has earned applause from organized labor, but the measure has drawn heckles...

Biden’s dilemma in the US’ failed trade war on China (Wang Cong, Global Times)

US President Joe Biden is far from recovering from a disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan that was set in motion before he took over...

US ‘democracy summit’ another misguided attempt to divide world: Russian Ambassador to China (Fan Anqi, Fan Lingzhi, Global Times)

The so-called "democracy summit" to be held by the US in December is another misguided attempt to divide the world into categories of "superior...

FM slams Biden’s ‘diplomatic boycott’ of Beijing Winter Games (Wang Qi, Global Times)

The Chinese Foreign Ministry slammed the US for politicizing sports, which goes against the Olympic spirit and damages the interests of athletes from all...

Biden’s $1.75 trillion domestic investment bill closer to law (Al Jazeera)

Democrats in the United States House of Representatives on Thursday advanced President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion domestic investment bill — despite a non-partisan arbiter’s...

US issues religious freedom ‘concern’ list, removes Nigeria (Al Jazeera)

The United States has removed Nigeria from a list of “countries of particular concern” regarding religious freedom, a day before US Secretary of State...

US sanctions Iranian nationals, company for alleged vote meddling (Al Jazeera)

The United States has sanctioned six Iranian nationals and an Iranian cybercompany for “attempting to influence” last year’s US presidential elections. In a statement on Thursday, the...

Immigration as an engine for reviving the middle class in midsized cities (Dany Bahar, Greg Wright, Brookings)

Over the past several months, millions of American workers have opted out of the churn of low-paid, dead-end work, producing one of the tightest...

Biden’s Management Agenda Highlights Need for High-Tech Federal Workforce (Aaron Boyd, Nextgov)

The Biden administration’s governing ethos for the next three to seven years will focus on the federal workforce, improvements to citizen services and better...

Army Recruiters on TikTok Dance Around Ban To Reach Gen Z (Elizabeth Howe, Nextgov)

U.S. Army recruiters are using TikTok to find young Americans and persuade them to enlist, despite an express order banning official use of the...