Commentary and Analysis

Samuel Kling analyzes the new challenges shared mobility (such as app-based ride-hailing and e-bikes) has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Finland and Sweden will “more than double the amount of NATO territory bordering Russia. But that’s Moscow’s doing, not NATO’s,” writes Ivo Daalder in Politico.

When it comes to peace negotiations, "the real stumbling block will be the Donbas," says Council President Ivo Daalder with Andrew Marr on LBC.

Putin will “have two very significant military powers [...] being part of NATO as a result of his actions in Ukraine," Ivo Daalder tells Suhana Meharchand on CBC.

In Ukraine, "the government is alive and well, and mounting serious resistance," Council President Ivo Daalder tells NBC News Now's Morgan Radford.

"The rampant spread of climate misinformation and disinformation has potentially dire implications for the Amazon Basin," cowrites Robert Muggah in the Washington Post.

“There is a degree of barbarity that is really unconscionable,” says Ivo Daalder. “We do need to make sure at some point that people responsible will be held to account.”

Kim Ghattas, Bobby Ghosh, and Nahal Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

While government officials reaffirm the importance of the US-Saudi relationship, the American public expresses generally chilly feelings towards Saudi Arabia.

Can the United States and Russia still work together on nuclear nonproliferation?