Explained Do You Trust Science? Trust has fallen since the pandemic. At the World Health Summit, new data on science, women’s health and emotional wellbeing points to a more complicated problem: expertise has not disappeared, but it is competing with an information environment where everyone has a microphone. By Olga Nesterova • 5 min read
Photo: International Nuremberg Principles Academy Explained How One Nobel Prize Connects Gaza, U.S. Sanctions on the ICC, Myanmar, Russia and Rare Earths Navi Pillay learned that she had won the Nobel Peace Prize while sitting in Courtroom 600 in Nuremberg — the same courtroom where Nazi leaders were prosecuted after World War II and where some of the foundations of modern international criminal law were laid. The symbolism was difficult to miss. Pillay 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
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
Photo: ONEST Explained Howard Buffett’s Next Chapter and Why Ukraine Is Already Part of It Howard G. Buffett has visited Ukraine 25 times since Russia’s full-scale invasion. His foundation has committed more than $1 billion to the country. This morning in New York, he explained why he does not see that support as charity or even as a choice. By Olga Nesterova • 9 min read
Crimea Platform | Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine Explained Crimea Is Ukraine. What Does It Take to Make That Matter? From the Crimea Platform and a gathering of first spouses at UNGA, two different answers to the same question: how do people endure a war, and what must other countries do to help end it? By Olga Nesterova • 2 min read
Photo: BRICS Explained BRICS, Explained: What Does Membership Buy You in a Crisis? Look at the photographs from New Delhi and BRICS appears remarkably united. Narendra Modi stands between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, their hands joined. Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian is at the table while his country is at war with the United States and Israel. Leaders representing governments with profoundly By Olga Nesterova • 7 min read
Explained What Happens If Voter Data Gets It Wrong? Emily Rodriguez of Protect Democracy explains the federal push around voter citizenship checks, ICE/HSI involvement, and what eligible voters should know. By Olga Nesterova • 1 min read
Image shared by the Office of the President of Ukraine Explained Canada Anchors Ukraine in the West as Washington Shifts the Cost to Europe Canada and Ukraine have signed a declaration establishing a 100-year partnership, pairing more than C$1 billion in new military, energy and reconstruction commitments with plans for joint weapons production and Ukraine’s eventual integration into NATO. The agreements announced following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s meeting with Ukrainian By Olga Nesterova • 7 min read
G20 Family Photo | Credit: G20 Host | Photography: Courtney Reed Explained Did the G20 Just Side With the U.S. Against China on Trade? China found itself isolated at this week’s G20 finance ministers meeting in Asheville, North Carolina.. at least on paper. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said 19 members of the Group of 20 agreed that persistent trade imbalances and a stream of cheap exports from non-market economies were By Olga Nesterova • 4 min read
Explained South Korea Is Testing a New Arctic Trade Route. The Bigger Story Is Who Controls It. A South Korean container ship left Busan this weekend carrying auto parts, chemicals and hundreds of containers bound for Europe. Ordinarily, that sentence would not be particularly remarkable. The route is. Instead of sailing south toward the traditional Asia-Europe corridor and passing through the Suez Canal, the PanStar Acro By Olga Nesterova • 10 min read
Image shared by the Office of the President of Ukraine Explained Ukraine at 35: Independence Day Brings New Defense Deals, Missiles and a Show of Allied Support This year, Ukraine marked its 35th Independence Day not with the traditional military parade that once moved through central Kyiv, but with something much more representative of the country fighting to preserve that independence. At dawn, Ukrainian-made ground robotic systems moved along Khreshchatyk. Naval drones crossed the Dnipro. Interceptor By Olga Nesterova • 6 min read
