President Trump engaging with the press before leaving the White House | Photo: Screenshot of the televised press engagement Daily Brief The Daily | October 5, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 6 min read
Explained What Do They Want From Ukraine and What Will It Take to Get It? The minerals, money and business connections behind the deals; and the distance between access on paper and usable resources. By Olga Nesterova • 9 min read
Daily Brief The Daily | October 2, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 6 min read
Editor's Note Editor’s Note: Simply Put. Have you ever needed an answer to a basic question.. and ended up more confused after hours of searching? You read five articles. Watch ten videos. Hear twelve opinions. And somehow you still don’t know what is actually useful. Part of the problem is that the information we are By Olga Nesterova • 2 min read
Daily Brief The Daily | October 1, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 6 min read
Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Diplomatic Notes Diplomatic Note: The plumbing beneath digital health By Olga Nesterova • 1 min read
Photo: ICT&health ONEST Voices Dr. Alain Labrique: Building health systems for people, not technology WHO’s Director of Data, Digital Health, Analytics and AI, and related work spanning human oversight, health records that travel with us, and why the infrastructure we barely notice may matter more than the shiny technology everyone is talking about. By Olga Nesterova • 7 min read
Daily Brief The Daily | September 30, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 6 min read
Pathways to Peace conference in Toronto, Canada | Photo by the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine Daily Brief The Daily | September 29, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 7 min read
President Trump at the America.gov launch event | Screenshot from the official WH broadcast Explained America.gov could make federal services easier. Who will see what people ask it? Finding the right federal service can mean working out which agency runs it, creating another account and entering information the government has already collected. President Donald Trump’s September 29 executive order proposes a simpler route: America.gov, a single digital entrance where people can sign in, ask questions in By Olga Nesterova • 3 min read
Daily Brief The Daily | September 28, 2026 What mattered today, before tomorrow’s headlines. By Olga Nesterova • 6 min read
Picture taken at the Economic Club of NY Diplomatic Notes Diplomatic Note: Kevin Hassett’s 4% Economy Meets the Numbers At the Economic Club of New York, the White House’s top economic adviser promised an AI-powered boom. The questions in the room kept returning to debt, borrowing costs and workers’ wages. By Olga Nesterova • 5 min read
