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FAST THINKING: How to stop the next pipeline hack Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council GET UP TO SPEED Ransomware is rampant. The biggest fuel pipeline in the United States was shut down in recent days after hackers stole some one hundred gigabytes of data from Colonial Pipeline and threatened to release it unless the company paid up. The hack has been tied to an Eastern European (and possibly Russia-based)...

FAST THINKING: Trump’s post-Facebook future Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council JUST IN The verdict: Back to you, Facebook. The company’s Oversight Board ruled Wednesday that former US President Donald Trump will remain banned from the platform for encouraging the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. But the board—a group of twenty activists, lawyers, and journalists appointed by the company—s...

FAST THINKING: Biden’s challenge to China and Congress Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council GET UP TO SPEED The United States stands at an “inflection point.” That’s how President Joe Biden described an array of challenges at home and abroad during a speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday to mark one hundred whirlwind days in office. To a socially distanced hall of masked dignitaries, Bi...

Pleasers and doers: the push and pull of being a political warrior We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Pleasers and doers: the push and pull of being a political warrior As the federal government gets more involved in disability, aged care and mental health, the tensions between ministers and public servants are likely to increase. By Don Russell Normal text size Very large text size All political careers end badly. This is an utterance often ma...

JUST IN Russia is massing military forces on its border with Ukraine and in Crimea, sparking fears of renewed aggression and leading to US President Joe Biden’s first direct phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Moscow is even warning NATO to not deploy troops should the conflict escalate. Seven years after Russia first invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea, how did we get to this new point of peril? And what should we expect next? We checked in with our Eurasia Center, ...

FAST THINKING: Biden’s first bombing Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council JUST IN Thirty-seven days. That’s how long it took before the Biden administration carried out its first known use of force abroad against a US foe. It came in the form of an airstrike against facilities in eastern Syria used by Iranian-backed Iraqi militant groups, in retaliation for rocket attacks in northern Iraq on February 15...

A Moscow court sentenced Navalny to more than two and a half years in prison. How should the United States and its allies respond?

Joe Biden’s inaugural address was a call for unity—and also resilience. Here's takeaways from five leading experts on international affairs.

Joe Biden is unveiling a nearly two trillion dollar package aimed at beating back the pandemic and economic crisis.

FAST THINKING: What we’re watching in North Korea Fast Thinking by Atlantic Council GET UP TO SPEED Four years ago, Barack Obama warned Donald Trump that North Korea would pose the president-elect’s most urgent challenge. Ever since, despite all his summits with Trump, Kim Jong Un has pressed forward with developing a nuclear-weapons arsenal that could directly threaten the United States. And in re...