A leaked draft of a majority opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court signals the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision protecting a woman’s right to choose. Elaine Kamarck explains what overturning this case means in practice for women seeking abortions across the country.
On the day the war in Ukraine broke out, President Biden said that the West would make sure that Putin became a “pariah on the international stage”—but for much of the world, the Russian president is not a pariah. Angela Stent writes about non-Western countries that are refusing to take sides in the Ukraine conflict.
Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp all utilize end-to-end encryption to protect people’s private conversations. With Facebook Messenger and Instagram set to do the same, will Twitter be next in line? Riana Pfefferkorn discusses the implications of a recent opinion issued by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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