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In Retrospect: Poland, Russia, Europe

In April I spent a few days with Zryw, a Polish non-profit organization that recruits young people to enter politics and public life. Their aim is to build a new generation of civic leaders in Poland. I’ve followed their evolution from the beginning; my son is one of the founders. (“Zryw” means “impulse” or “burst of speed” in Polish). Julie Chmielewska, one of Zryw’s leaders, interviewed me at the event. Here is the conversation, lightly edited for grammar and context: Julia Chmielewska: Assuming that culture shapes institutions, could we conclude that some cultures are more prone to authoritarianism? Anne Applebaum: I don’t think so. Every culture, every nation, and every country has the potential for change. When we look at history, we can see that nations do change. Poland has changed, for example, from the 1980s to today. There’s a completely different mentality here than the one I encountered when I first visited, in 1988. The current generation sees the world through a different frame. So no, I don’t believe that certain nations are doomed to authoritarianism, or to anything. Of course, there are political and cultural traditions, but they can always be challenged. JC: So do you think there’s something intrinsic in human nature that pushes people to democracy, freedom? AA: I think there is something in human nature, a deep instinct, that pushes people towards freedom, yes. People who live in authoritarian countries – and I’ve heard this from them over and over again – sooner or later find themselves angered by a feeling of helplessness. They can see the unfairness of crooked courts, irrational political decisions. They naturally dislike the fact that somebody has all the power while they have none. In those circumstances, people who have no political background at all sometimes are politicized just by that frustration. I’m thinking of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, for example, who was a Belarusian housewife, until the circumstances of her husband’s arrest forced her to become a politician. I met a woman who is a Uyghur from China, and who had come to live in Turkey. After several of her family members were arrested, she too was propelled into a political role. These kinds of experiences make people interested in democracy or political reform, even if they thought they didn’t care. I also think that the opposite is true: some people instinctively prefer homogeneity, order, hierarchy. They don’t like the confrontation of opinions or the noise of debate, and they lean towards a single leader or a unified regime. I think that most of modern history is shaped by the clash between those two different sides of human nature. JC: Which force do you find more powerful today? AA: I think they both have a lot of power and there’s no way of predicting who wins. Even in countries that seem very shut off or stuck in an authoritarian system can change. We’ve seen that happen. And vice versa, I think democracies can also begin to fail and slide into authoritarianism. So it’s very important not to be complacent in either direction. JC: I want to go into your history and your experiences. You’ve lived in Russia during a time of incredible change in the late 80s, and then you came back to do research in post-Soviet Russia. AA: I was a student in Russia just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. I then traveled and worked there extensively in the 1990s, and I met people who really were full of hope. They hoped that Russia could become a democracy, or at least a place that guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of the press. These weren’t ideas that came from Washington. Although now the narrative in the Kremlin is different, I met many people who were working towards exactly that kind of transformation. A friend of mine ran a series of seminars – once a year, and then later several times a year, in cities all over Russia – designed to get people to discuss politics in new ways. She invited young politicians and journalists, as well as foreigners. I went to many of them, in Moscow as well as Volgograd and Novosibirsk. Over two decades, hundreds of people came to these seminars, and all of them wanted Russia to be different. I remain convinced that many Russians still want Russia to be different. It’s just that the old system, in the form of Putin, a representative of that system, returned. The KGB reimposed their power. And this wasn’t because of something to do with culture, this was to do with money and politics, and who was in charge. JC: You’ve partially answered my question... I wanted to ask whether that excitement of the 1990s was an exception from the Russian historical norm which has been rather authoritarian? AA: Of course, if you look at the history of Russia since the 18th century, there have always been liberal groups, reformers and revolutionaries. There were the Decembrists, in the early 19th century, and the rural populists later on, who tried to organize the peasantry. A significant group of liberal Russians appeared at the turn of the 20th century, people like the father of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, who was a Russian politician before the revolution. These groups were small in number, but sometimes had a broader significance. The Russian dissident movement in the 1950s and 1960s actually invented the modern human rights movement. It was their idea to hold the leaders of the Soviet Union accountable for the language they used, to remind them of the treaties they had signed and the promised they had made. They created the Helsinki group, for example, that held Soviet leadership to the language of the Helsinki Treaty, which formally ended the Second World War and which contained guarantees of human rights, at least on paper. That idea spread to Eastern Europe, and similar tactics were used here in Poland. (Benjamin Nathans recently wrote a great book about the Soviet dissidents, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause) JC: But seemingly, even if they do ever get power, they could never hold on to it. AA: We don’t know, because they have never really had power. But in any case, we also don’t know what will happen in the future. There is no reason to assume that Russia will forever be condemned to totalitarianism. Even during the first fifteen years of Putin’s regime there was some form of democratic politics. Only when the full-scale war began did he bring everything to an end: he shut down all remaining independent organizations and killed his most important opponent, Alexi Navalny. But does that mean he is popular, that he enjoys legitimacy? Even now, we don’t really know what Russians think about him, or about the war. There is no way of doing real polling in Russia because nobody will answer an independent pollster over the phone. JC: Do you think that the flock of young people, especially young men, who fled Russia after the start of the war represent a continuation of liberal movements that refuse to partake in the authoritarian state, or do you think they are moving for the sake of self-preservation – “I don’t want to go to the army, so I leave”? AA: I’m sure it’s both. I actually know many people who left Russia for political reasons either in the very last years before the war, or else just after the war began. JC: And do you see a change in the young generation versus the old one that have fled? AA: It’s hard for me to say because the people who I know were mostly already politicized. I do know some younger people who left, but most of them were already either active in the opposition, or working as journalists. Many of them very self-consciously think of themselves as maintaining Russian culture abroad, just as in the 20th century the Soviet dissidents or the anti-communist White Russians once thought of themselves as people who maintained the true Russian culture, outside of Bolshevik Russia. JC: Let’s move on to Poland. One of your first experiences with Poland was reporting on Margaret Thatcher’s first state visit, in the autumn of 1988. You followed her around the farmers’ market. AA: She was making a symbolic gesture. She wanted to welcome free markets, but the only one she could really visit was the farmers’ market at Hala Mirowska. JC: And I want to talk about this area because today you can look out of any window in that district, Mirów, and see rows and rows of skyscrapers. How does it feel to see a country built from the ground in such a short time, both politically and economically? AA: You know, when you’re living in a period of dramatic change, it’s always hard to know whether the change is positive or negative. The transformation in Poland created winners and losers, as well as new classes of people, new political movements of different kinds. At the time, it sometimes just felt like turbulence. Now, we can look back at the 1990s and early 2000s in Poland and see in retrospect that the country was headed in towards prosperity and European integration. In around 2009 or 2010, I remember speaking to a woman who worked cleaning government offices, and who asked me if her daughter should study in Amsterdam or in London. This seemed to me to be a real transformation, and it happened very fast: within a few years, Poles stopped feeling like second-class Europeans, and a generation of younger Poles appeared who had no qualms about crossing borders. JC: We again live in turbulent times. Do you think we’re heading towards positive outcomes? AA: I can’t make predictions, because everything that happens tomorrow depends on what people do today. Also, history doesn’t have a trajectory. It doesn’t move in a particular direction. You only think it does afterwards. As I said, you can look afterwards at Poland in the 1990s and you could say this was a period of great progress. But not everybody at the time saw that. Sometimes people are very wrong about a given country’s trajectory. I remember people writing about Ukraine in the 1990s, about how dangerous it was that Ukraine was independent, that this was going to be an anti-semitic state, that Ukrainian nationalism was going to come back... and although you can say many bad things about Ukraine, the country made many bad choices, actually it became a pretty tolerant state which now has a Jewish president and until recently a Muslim defense minister. JC: In the 1990s Poland’s and Ukraine’s GDP were roughly similar. Ukraine was even a bit richer. So the starting point was similar for both of these countries, but they’ve turned out very, very differently. Even if we stop in 2014. Why do you think Ukraine “chose East”? Was it external influence? AA: No, I think Ukraine was in a different position. First of all, central and eastern Ukraine had been part of the Soviet Union since the 1920s, and had therefore experienced a longer period of occupation, repression, Sovietization and even Russification. Ukraine did not have, as Poland did, an alternative elite: a large cadre of economists and politicians, who already had some experience in opposition politics and in independent thinking. In Poland, the transformative finance minister, Leszek Balcerowicz, had already thought about how an economy might be decentralized before he took office. We can argue about how successful he was, but at least he was prepared to try something new. In Ukraine, people weren’t prepared. For one, there hadn’t been much space even for an illegal opposition in the previous couple of decades. Ukraine was also in many ways still emerging from colonial occupation. For the previous couple of centuries, many of the most capable Ukrainians had moved to Russia, and the first generation of leaders in independent Ukraine tended to be former Soviet apparatchiks. They didn’t immediately seek to become closer to western Europe. Instead, they looked for some kind of economic and political “third way” and an accomodation with Russia. Ukraine became stuck in this position, half-in, half-out and became pretty profoundly corrupt. JC: The Polish alternative elite had a vision of where they wanted the country to go. I think the general perception now is that this vision ends with the next election, right? Is this a natural process of gaining power? AA: Their vision, and it was shared by the time by politicians who now call themselves both left and right, was that Poland should join the EU and NATO, as fast as possible. My husband (Radek Sikorski) was in the very first government that said it wanted to join NATO. At the time this was taken very badly in Washington: the demand for NATO membership absolutely came from Poland, not from the US. But even then, in the early 1990s, many Poles already understood that the Russian sphere of influence would grow once again, that it was important to become part of the transatlantic alliance and an integrated Europe as fast as possible: NATO, the EU, the Council of Europe, all of the trading and security alliances. That consensus lasted through several different governments and over many years, even governments containing former communists. For twenty years, right, left and center disagreed about many things, but they all agreed on the direction that the country should go. In retrospect, that consensus created the basis for prosperity in Poland. JC: And regarding the Polish-Ukrainian relations. We know that antagonisms, e.g. the myth of Wołyń [a massacre of Poles that took place in what is now Western Ukraine, in 1943] are increasingly used in Polish political discourse today. In Ukraine, nationalist historians make heroes out of UPA, the Ukrainian revolutionary army, which is held responsible for this tragedy. Where do you see a start for burying the hatchet? Is the reconciliation of our nations possible? AA: So here’s a strange thing: For more than a decade after they both gained independence, Poland and Ukraine participated in a number of projects that were designed to solve exactly these kinds of Polish-Ukrainian differences. Books were published that were jointly written by Polish and Ukrainian historians, monuments were built. These projects were successful: If you’d asked me this question in 2010, I would have said that there are no real historical issues between Poland and Ukraine, that the two countries had mostly reconciled. For a number of reasons, this began to shift. In Poland, children and grandchildren of victims of the Wołyń massacre felt their tragedy hadn’t been fully recognized. In Ukraine, nationalist groups wanted the UPA partisans who had fought against the Soviet Union recognized for their heroism, despite the fact that some in this broad and not well-defined group were also linked to Wołyń. In both eastern Poland and western Ukraine, the memory of the ethnic cleansing that took place there in the late 1940s - Poles were moved West, Ukrainians East - to accomodate new borders has left feelings of displacement and bitterness. The wave of Ukrainian immigration, which started before the war, may have provoked some of this. But don’t underestimate the role played by Russia, which has always wanted to create discord between Poland and Ukraine, and pumps out propaganda to that effect in both countries. Vandalism on both sides of the border, damage done to cemeteries and monuments, is sometimes carried out by provacateurs working for Russia, just to create bad feelings. The Polish-Ukrainian conflict also hides a different reality: although there are real grievances and bad memories, the truth is that the biggest tragedies both nations experienced in the twentieth century were inflicted by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. That should unite these two countries, not divide them. JC: This week (19.04.2026 – Ed.) in Hungary we saw that using historical narratives to create grievance has no longer worked. Are you optimistic about the direction after Orban’s loss? AA: The Hungarian election was really important because it shows that people can actually resist powerful, dominant propaganda. The ruling party Fidesz controlled all of the TV, 90% of the newspapers, the constitutional court, the bureaucracy... and yet people had the nerve to vote against it and resist it. It’s also an important election because Hungary created a huge network of well-funded think tanks and foundations that were funding other far right groups and projects. So that loss is going to have a knock-on effect in other places too, maybe even in Poland. JC: What you’ve said about resisting propaganda reminds me of one of the interviews you did about talking to Russians in the post-Soviet era who claimed that people knew that the system was lying. Why do people choose to believe in these regimes anyway? AA: Because it’s useful. Stephen Kotkin, an American historian, once described how people would learn how to “speak Bolshevik”: It was just a language that you needed to use in order to get by in society. If you didn’t talk the way the regime wanted you to talk, then you might have problems, or lose your job, or your kids would not get into university. It was a way of getting along. Communist Poland was similar, at least in the early years. When I was writing a book about the Sovietization of Eastern Europe after World War II, I met a lot of people who wanted to talk a lot about the war, when many of them had done really heroic things. But almost nobody wanted to talk about the decade afterwards, between 1945 and 1956. This was when you had the short period of terror, violence and Polish Stalinism. To stay safe, people felt the need to just go along with what others were saying, or stay out of politics, or use communist jargon without necessarily believing it. I don’t judge them for it, and I wouldn’t describe all of those people as collaborators. It’s easy to feel moral certainty in retrospect, because we know that communism ended. But if you were living in 1949, it might not have been clear to you that communism was going to end. In very repressive societies, maybe about 10% of people who are really evil – collaborators, torturers. Maybe 10% of people are really brave and who find ways to resist. And then around 80% of people have kids, they have parents, they have to have jobs and they’ve had to get through it somehow. Strange though it may sound, I’ve found that the work I did on that book is now very useful in explaining some of what’s going on in the United States today. There are plenty of members of the Republican Party in Congress who know perfectly well that Donald Trump says many things that aren’t true. But they avoid criticizing him because it’s inconvenient, because they would get in trouble, because someone would attack them on the internet. So actually you don’t even need mass terror to get people to conform. JC: Is Gen Z reinventing agency? AA: We’ll see. In any generation you can find groups of people who want agency. If you live in a society that’s unfair, for example where a tiny number of people have captured most of the wealth, then at a certain point people rebel. This is always easier for younger people, who have you have less to lose. The question now is how the internet will affect the relationships between citizens and the state, and how it will change organizations. The “Twitter revolutions” people spoke about as early as 2008-9, mass protests organized online, have often proved to be very superficial. Although you can easily join something just by clicking, the work of creating a real movement requires physical participation. Successful mass movements of the past, for example the Civil Rights movement in the United States, were built by people who had spent many years together. They had participated in non-violent workshops together. They practiced and prepared. Just using the you can get everybody to show up at a certain moment, but then when the protest is broken up, nothing happens. It’s also true that the repressive regimes have more recently learned how to use the internet to undermine leaders and movements. Most of all, they now understand how to make people cynical. The form of propaganda that most modern authoritarians use - and I think the Russians really pioneered this - deploys sneering cynicism. Instead of praising the rulers, the regime propagandists mock the opposition movement leadership for being supposedly corrupt or sexually degenerate, with the goal of undermining any kind of idealism. JC: MAGA grew on the internet? AA: MAGA is a real grassroots movement. They had symbols, red hats, they showed up at rallies. But you’re right that the cynicism, the sarcasm and the distrust that the movement embodies came originally from the internet, and this is different. Fifty years ago, most European political parties had a social base in real organizations, in trade unions for Social Democrats, in church groups for Christian Democrats. As people stopped going to church and as the trade unions became smaller, the social base of these parties disappeared. Now people who wouldn’t have known one another in the past meet on the internet and create new movements, many of which don’t last. JC: Is history ending? Going in stale circles? AA: History never ends. In truth, human beings want contradictory things at the same time: order and freedom, stability and change. These things are never resolved, and when a society swings too far in one direction, people always push it the other way. But each time that happens, the result is different. Certainly it is true that we are now in a period when old philosophers and ideas from the 1930s are undergoing a revival. Carl Schmitt, who was a philosopher who was very influential on the Nazis, is back as an influence on both the far left and the far right, once again inspiring people to think that all politics has to be existential, that all politics is about defining and defeating enemies. In the US, some are also bringing back dominionism, the idea that we need a Christian and not a secular state. It’s also true that we are living through a more fundamental shift. The old left-right divide, which was mostly about the size of the state, is much less important now. Instead, we are arguing about more fundamental things: what are our rights, what protects our freedom. Or how much power do we want to give small elites, versus how much power to give ordinary people. In America a small group of very wealthy people now control information, because they control the social media platforms and AI, which means they determine what people will read and learn. Finding a way to preserve preserve zones of autonomy and independent thinking, this is going to be the main task for the next generation. JC: What is the one book that a person interested in Central Europe should read? AA: You could read my book “Iron Curtain: the Crushing of Eastern Europe” which tells the story of how the Soviet Union imposed its culture on the region. Or read Tim Snyder’s history of the region, “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999.” And everyone should read “The Captive Mind” by Czesław Miłosz, which describes exactly the phenomenon we were talking about: why do people collaborate? I joined Scott Galloway and the brilliant Fiona Hill in a discussion about the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the future of global power, and what these conflicts reveal about America's role in the world. Scott told us that this was the 400th edition of his podcast, which is quite a number: My friend Francesco Chiamulera runs a brilliant series of literary events, Una Colline di Libri, A Hill of Books, in the Prosecco Hills, a region of vineyards and elegant hill towns in the Veneto, north of Venice. We did an event in Vittorio Veneto and also drove and biked around the countryside. Buy Autocracy Inc Buy Iron Curtain Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe

Jun 13 • 4:15 AM EDT • Politics • anneapplebaum.substack.com

Sharon O'Keefe

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Jun 13 • 3:30 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

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Jun 12 • 8:02 PM EDT • Politics • kltv.com

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Jun 12 • 1:01 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com

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Jun 12 • 10:09 AM EDT • Entertainment • amusementtoday.com

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Jun 12 • 9:28 AM EDT • Health • mha.org

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Jun 12 • 6:30 AM EDT • Business • chicagobusiness.com

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Jun 12 • 3:58 AM EDT • Science • phys.org

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Jun 12 • 2:58 AM EDT • Health • unmc.edu

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Jun 11 • 10:27 PM EDT • Science • dailydose.ttuhsc.edu

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Jun 11 • 10:27 PM EDT • Health • dailydose.ttuhsc.edu

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Jun 11 • 9:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

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Jun 11 • 6:57 PM EDT • Health • fox17.com

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Leading 2-0, Torkelson hit a two-run shot in the fourth inning for his 10th of the season. Torres made it 5-0 in the fifth before Keith hit a two-run shot for his first of the year in the sixth. Greene in the seventh and McKinstry added solo shots before Pérez capped the surge with a two-run shot to left-center in the eighth.

Jun 11 • 5:01 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

We May Be Surrounded by Trillions of Conscious Beings, Research Suggests—And They Aren’t Human

We might need to reconsider our position in the consciousness hierarchy.

Jun 11 • 5:00 PM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com

The Politics Hour: The final countdown to the D.C. primary and Virginia lawmakers stall over the budget

WAMU's Alex Koma and Washington Informer's Sam P.K. Collins get us ready for the D.C. primaries. Plus, Virginia Delegate Vivian Watts weighs in the data center tax breaks stalling budget negotiations.

Jun 11 • 4:58 PM EDT • Politics • wamu.org

Phillies Acquire Outfielder from White Sox

After losing Johan Rojas for the rest of the season, the Phillies have traded for a center fielder.

Jun 11 • 4:25 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

APSU formalizes partnership with University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Political Science

Austin Peay State University (APSU) has formalized a significant new international partnership with the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade (FPN), one of Serbia's most distinguished university faculties and home to a 21-year-old Center for American Studies.

Jun 11 • 3:06 PM EDT • Science • clarksvillenow.com

Emory gets $15M to establish first center to research toxic Superfund sites' health effects

Emory University has received a five-year, $15 million grant from the National Institutes of Environmental Health to establish a center to research how contaminants from Georgia Superfund sites affect human health.

Jun 11 • 2:53 PM EDT • Health • newsday.com

Big dreams and even bigger possibilities possible with Science Museum Oklahoma's Barbie experience

Science Museum Oklahoma has a brand-new exhibit celebrating an iconic doll that has inspired children to imagine big through her many careers.

Jun 11 • 2:24 PM EDT • Science • koco.com

Small business owners receive early look at $14M recovery grant program across Asheville

Small business owners recovering from the impacts of Helene are getting an early look at the application process for a grant program set to provide more than $1

Jun 11 • 2:22 PM EDT • Business • wlos.com

CMS approves budget for GO-NORTH, the state’s federally funded rural health program

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services approved New Hampshire’s spending plan for a large tranche of federal money that will go toward rural health initiatives, state officials announced Thursday.

Jun 11 • 2:14 PM EDT • Health • newhampshirebulletin.com

Preview for Michigan Science Center camp

Jun 11 • 2:04 PM EDT • Science • yahoo.com

Waterville board approves Amazon distribution center

Camber Development is applying for permits to build a 159,000 square foot building on about 50 acres on Junction Road near Trafton Road.

Jun 11 • 2:03 PM EDT • Business • spectrumlocalnews.com

Somalia health centers close due to aid cuts as famine looms

Health centre closures across Somalia are cutting off life-saving care for millions, deepening an already severe humanitarian crisis.

Jun 11 • 2:01 PM EDT • Health • care.org

Cultivating future scientists through plants and partnerships

Students from Buffalo's McKinley High School — home to one of the few high-school horticulture programs in New York state — visited Cornell May 19 to view the work of the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS).

Jun 11 • 1:32 PM EDT • Science • news.cornell.edu

Calvert Hall to open sports performance center

Calvert Hall College High School and The Huffman Family Foundation have announced the start of construction on The Huffman Family Sports Performance Center.

Jun 11 • 1:27 PM EDT • Sports • thedailyrecord.com

Hantavirus Cruise Passenger Talks Quarantine Dispute Between CDC, Florida: ‘I’m Being Held Hostage’

A Florida woman says she is not being allowed to return home to finish her quarantine despite being told she could voluntarily leave a facility in Nebraska.

Jun 11 • 1:01 PM EDT • Health • today.com

Maryland Science Center marks 50 years with 1976 prices

Baltimore's Maryland Science Center is marking 50 years with hands-on activities, free cake and a one-day throwback to 1976 prices.

Jun 11 • 12:55 PM EDT • Science • wbaltv.com

GALLERY: Savannah Downtown Business Association Hosts Business Behind the Scenes at the Savannah Convention Center

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Kaitlin Sells attended the Savannah Downtown Business Association’s Business Behind the Scenes at the Savannah Convention Center. See the photos below:

Jun 11 • 12:47 PM EDT • Business • wsav.com

CDC chief: ‘No evidence’ USAID cuts hampered Ebola response

The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) denied Wednesday that the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid negatively impacted the global response to the ongoi…

Jun 11 • 10:28 AM EDT • Health • thehill.com

College Enrollment Trends: Certificates and Health Majors See Big Surge

Undergraduate enrollment in health fields jumped between 6.0% and 7.1% this spring, with more than 1 million students in those majors at four-year schools, according to National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Final Spring Enrollment Trends 2026 report. Short-term undergraduate certificate ...

Jun 11 • 10:24 AM EDT • Health • usnews.com

CMS announces Office of Health Technology and Products

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services June 10 announced the establishment of a new Office of Health Technology and Products.

Jun 11 • 10:19 AM EDT • Health • aha.org

Eaton to Merge Mobility Business With Dana in $10B Deal

The separation of the division will allow Eaton to focus on its electrical and aerospace businesses, which are benefiting from the AI-driven data center boom

Jun 11 • 9:49 AM EDT • Business • ttnews.com

Today on ARC PDX | June 11, 2026 | Diving into how politics and policy shape the World Cup

ARC PDX AM digs into World Cup politics and global tensions, from Iran conflict to US immigration policy. Plus, Portland council debates turning the River District Navigation Center from 24-hour to overnight-only.

Jun 11 • 9:41 AM EDT • Politics • katu.com

Scientists Were Studying a 5,300-Year-Old Mummy. They Found Something Living on His Remains.

Ötzi the Iceman was discovered in 1991, and is a treasure trove of information about the Copper Age.

Jun 11 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com

Free Broward business conference connects entrepreneurs to funding, AI and more

The Broward and Beyond Business Conference will take place June 12 at the Broward County Convention Center. The event is free and open to entrepreneurs, startups and businesses of all sizes.

Jun 11 • 8:18 AM EDT • Business • nbcmiami.com

Scientists Explored an Island Cave and Found 1 Million-Year-Old Remnants of a Lost World

Jun 11 • 8:11 AM EDT • Science • popularmechanics.com

Lamar Jackson: I'm liking our choices at center

Jun 11 • 8:09 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com

First‑ever Arts in Health Conference at Rowan highlights innovation in healing through the arts

Rowan's George Family Center for Healing Arts hosted the first-ever Arts in Health Conference, bringing together healthcare professionals, educators, students, artists and community leaders from across the state. During the May 27 event, attendees explored a simple but powerful question: how can the arts help us live healthier, more connected lives?

Jun 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • today.rowan.edu

How Many Days a Week Should I Strength Train To Boost Heart Health?

In TODAY.com’s Expert Tip of the Day, a sports medicine doctor explains how exercise that strengthens your muscles can benefit heart health as well.

Jun 11 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • today.com

Broward County to host free business conference for entrepreneurs

The Broward and Beyond Business Conference will take place June 12 at the Broward County Convention Center. The event is free and open to entrepreneurs, startups and businesses of all sizes. NBC6’s Constance Jones reports.

Jun 11 • 7:55 AM EDT • Business • nbcmiami.com

Husky Heritage Sports Museum Open Saturday June 13

The J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum , located in the UConn Alumni Center on the UConn Storrs campus, will be open to the public for on Saturd...

Jun 11 • 7:46 AM EDT • Sports • uconnhuskies.com

Science teachers learn about STEAM at Jump Simulation Trading & Education Center in Peoria

PEORIA, Ill.-Science educators from across Illinois got a firsthand look at innovative STEAM learning opportun...

Jun 11 • 6:23 AM EDT • Science • wmbdradio.com

850 good news: Local high school student competes at international science fair

A Magnet Innovation Center STEAM High School student competed against top young scientists from around the world at the International Science and Engineering Fair.

Jun 11 • 6:17 AM EDT • Science • wjhg.com

A Youthful Crop of Politicians Run on Housing, and Their Own Rent

A cohort of young Millennial and Gen Z politicians have centered their campaigns this year on housing costs, and the divide is more generational than partisan.

Jun 11 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com

$500K trade show trailer stolen from Henderson business; owner asks public for help

Jun 10 • 8:23 PM EDT • Business • news3lv.com

Texas governor proposes new data center regulations

Gov. Greg Abbott proposed new regulations for Texas data centers, citing concerns about energy consumption and costs for local residents.

Jun 10 • 8:04 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com

New Data Center, Student Collaboration Space Put People at the Heart of Computer Science

The Computer Science and Engineering Department unveiled a new on-site data center that will accelerate computing and artificial intelligence research advances, while giving graduate students and other computer science researchers hands-on access to cutting-edge computing infrastructure.

Jun 10 • 8:00 PM EDT • Science • today.ucsd.edu

Panel discussion on politics of AI set

CHARLESTON – Berkeley Springs will play host Sunday to a panel discussion to look at the growing use of artificial intelligence – AI – along with the data centers powering the revolution, and the politics that is growing contentious not just in West Virginia, but nationwide. Tangle News – a national news outlet that looks […]

Jun 10 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • theintermountain.com

Panel Discussion On Politics Of AI Set In Berkeley Springs

CHARLESTON – Berkeley Springs will play host Sunday to a panel discussion to look at the growing use of artificial intelligence – AI – along with the data centers powering the revolution, and the politics that is growing contentious not just in West Virginia, but nationwide. Tangle News – a national news outlet that looks […]

Jun 10 • 8:00 PM EDT • Politics • theintelligencer.net

Eugene braces for 90-degree heat as Lane County health officials urge residents to prepare

With temperatures in Eugene expected to spike into the 90s Sunday and Monday, health officials and HVAC experts are urging residents to prepare now to stay safe

Jun 10 • 7:54 PM EDT • Health • nbc16.com

GCSU hosts Summer Science Program as top high schoolers research asteroids

This June, Georgia College & State University (GCSU) is hosting the prestigious Summer Science Program (SSP), where top high school researchers will track aster

Jun 10 • 6:38 PM EDT • Science • wgxa.tv

Car show Saturday in Lynchburg to raise funds for Valor Farm, veterans’ mental health

The National Center of Healthy Veterans at Valor Farm is hosting a car show sponsored by Lynchburg community partners.

Jun 10 • 6:20 PM EDT • Health • wset.com