Today's Briefing: America Is Shifting Toward Control Over Collaboration

A cultural analysis of how America’s shift toward authoritarian decision-making is destabilizing trade and silencing scientific research.

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Open markets and scientific leadership once defined the US—both driven by shared knowledge and cooperation. That’s changing.

Trump’s latest tariffs have alienated economic allies as the US moves from negotiation-based trade agreements to unilateral economic control.

Meanwhile, his administration’s cuts to federal researc…