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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) will allow U.S. residents to travel by land and sea to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Bermuda using a passport card rather than a traditional ...