Post-Roe America, the 21st-Century Cold War, and More

Privacy protections on Twitter, the West vs. the rest, and how abortion access will look if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

View in browser May 4, 2022 What happens after Roe v. Wade?   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.   Read more The West vs. the rest   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.   Read in Foreign Policy An urgent task awaiting Elon Musk at Twitter: Encrypting direct messages   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.    Read more Help support Brookings with a donation   Brookings is committed to making its high-quality, independent policy research free to the public. Please consider making a contribution today to our Annual Fund to support our experts' work. The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publication are solely those of its author(s), and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its other scholars. The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Unsubscribe Manage your newsletter subscriptions | Receive the Brookings Brief less often