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Space Foundation Announces International Teacher Liaisons for 2026
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Jan. 22 -- Space Foundation issued the following news release on Jan. 21, 2026:
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Space Foundation Announces International Teacher Liaisons for 2026
* Program globally promotes space-related STEM education in schools
* 'Flight 26' includes six international teachers from six nations outside the U.S.
* Selectees will take part in the Space Symposium in April
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Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, today announced 38 educators have been selected to join the International Teacher Liaison Program, including
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Jan. 22 -- Space Foundation issued the following news release on Jan. 21, 2026:
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Space Foundation Announces International Teacher Liaisons for 2026
* Program globally promotes space-related STEM education in schools
* 'Flight 26' includes six international teachers from six nations outside the U.S.
* Selectees will take part in the Space Symposium in April
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Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, today announced 38 educators have been selected to join the International Teacher Liaison Program, includingsix international applicants from Australia, Brazil, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria. These elite educators were chosen for their active promotion of space and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in the classroom.
Space Foundation International Teacher Liaisons are a community of more than 400 educators in 25 countries and 40 states who work to inspire the next generation of explorers and innovators. Established in 2004, this internationally recognized program provides benefits that improve teaching skills, provide an encouraging community for educators, and influence space and science education at a global level.
Remarking on the new Teacher Liaisons, Senior Director of Space Foundation Discovery Center Heidi Vasiloff said, "Flight 26 represents some of the most dedicated and innovative STEM educators from around the world. By bringing the wonder and rigor of space-based learning into classrooms, they are shaping the next generation of explorers and advancing global space education. We are excited to welcome these amazing educators into this elite group and to support their efforts to inspire the young people who will lead us back to the Moon, onward to Mars and further into the cosmos."
Each selected class of Teacher Liaisons is referred to as a "flight" in reference to the teachers' mission as premier space/STEM educators. Every year, following a rigorous application process, a new flight of Teacher Liaisons is selected. This global program is open to public, private and homeschool teachers, in both informal and formal education, as well as school administrators, principals, specialists, curriculum and instruction developers, and others who deliver educational programs to students. A panel comprised of experienced Teacher Liaisons and representatives from the space industry and the military selected the newest flight.
Space Foundation supports Teacher Liaisons by providing them with curriculum resources and various professional development opportunities. Teacher Liaisons also get the opportunity to design hands-on learning activities in a collaborative setting and engage with top educators and space industry experts.
"Being part of the Teacher Liaison Program allows me to bring real-world aerospace experiences directly into the classroom, empowering students, especially those who may not yet see themselves in STEM, to imagine bold futures in New Mexico and beyond. This opportunity strengthens the bridge between education, innovation and global possibility for our school, our community and our state, as my colleagues and I work toward developing future programs that are still to come," said Liza Ortiz, International Teacher Liaison from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
The 2026 flight of Teacher Liaisons will be recognized at Space Foundation's annual Space Symposium, to be held April 13-16 at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. In addition to the recognition activities, Teacher Liaisons will participate in special programming at Symposium that includes keynote speakers, networking opportunities, and breakout sessions.
Introducing Space Foundation's Teacher Liaison Flight 26
United States
Arizona
* Lauren James, Arizona Astrobiology Center, Tucson
California
* Nicole Watts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Colorado
* Caleb Ulliman, Colorado Springs School of Science and Technology, Colorado Springs
* Crystal Everingham, Sand Creek International, Colorado Springs
* David Dillard, Columbia Elementary School, Colorado Springs
* Jayme Sneider, Innovation Center, Longmont
* Jennifer Jones, Arapahoe Community College, Littleton
* Kristi Hensley, Summit Elementary, Divide
* Mitchell Smith, Space Foundation Discovery Center, Colorado Springs
* Paolo Calvadores, Julesburg School District RE-1, Julesburg
* Shirly Davis, Windsor Charter Academy, Windsor
* Stacey Mishler, Mesa Ridge High School, Colorado Springs
* Tracie Skoglund, Skyview Middle School, Pueblo County District 70, Pueblo
Maryland
* Monique Wilson, James E. Richmond Science Center, Waldorf
Minnesota
* Russell Strachan, Pequot Lakes High School, Pequot Lakes
Montana
* Florence Gold, NASA HUNCH, Billings
New Jersey
* Rachel DiVanno, Edgar Middle School, Metuchen
* Samantha Selikoff, Thomas Jefferson Middle School, Rockaway Borough
New Mexico
* Lisa Ortiz, Explore Academy, Albuquerque
Ohio
* Jaime Chanter, Lakewood High School, Lakewood
Tennessee
* Kimberly Elbakidze, Red Bank Middle School, Chattanooga
Texas
* Allison Westover, NASA HUNCH, Webster
* Lauren Kelly, Oakmont Elementary, Burleson
* Lucero Martinez, J. T. Canales, Brownsville
Utah
* Sarah Merrill, Douglas Space and Science Foundation, Layton
Virginia
* Darrell Barnard, Jolliff Middle School, Chesapeake
* Emily Zarybnisky Brookfield Elementary School, Chantilly
International
Australia
* Kenneth Silburn, Mamare Anglican School, Kemps Creek
Brazil
* Leticia Puziski Rossato, Fractal Educacao, Brasilia
* Lucas Teixeira Picanco, Senator Joao Bosco State School - Parintins, Parintins
India
* Manjula M, Edutech4Space, Bengaluru
* Raghu Siddappa, 10X International School, Mysuru
Kenya
* Isacc Gathu, Mars Society Kenya, Thika
Malaysia
* Muhammad Hafez bin Ahmat Murtza, Apadilangit / Universe Awareness Malaysia, Kajang
Nigeria
* Abraham Ngobiri, Federal Government College Enugu, Enugu
* Rashidat Ademosu, Eva Adelaja Girls Secondary Grammar school, Bariga, Lagos
* Wahab Ishola Abubakar, Sango Senior Secondary School Kulende Ilorin-Kwara State, Ilorin South
* Zainab Gambo, Queen's College, Yaba
To learn more about Teacher Liaisons and other Space Foundation education programs, please visit www.discoverspace.org/education.
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About Space Foundation
Space Foundation advances the global space community through education, collaboration and information. Founded in 1983, the nonprofit brings together space professionals, educators and leaders from around the world to highlight how space benefits life on Earth and beyond. As a charitable organization, Space Foundation is supported by members, sponsors, individuals and grants. Learn more at www.SpaceFoundation.org, and follow us on Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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Original text here: https://www.spacefoundation.org/2026/01/21/space-foundation-announces-international-teacher-liaisons-for-2026/
Reason Foundation: Upcoming surface transportation reauthorization bill and the looming debt crisis
LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 22 -- The Reason Foundation issued the following commentary:
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The upcoming surface transportation reauthorization bill and the looming debt crisis
How to safeguard vital highway and aviation infrastructure from the coming federal insolvency.
By Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Policy
The landmark Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law of 2021, provided huge increases in federal funding for transportation infrastructure over the past four years. As we approach the last year of IIJA
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LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 22 -- The Reason Foundation issued the following commentary:
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The upcoming surface transportation reauthorization bill and the looming debt crisis
How to safeguard vital highway and aviation infrastructure from the coming federal insolvency.
By Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Policy
The landmark Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure law of 2021, provided huge increases in federal funding for transportation infrastructure over the past four years. As we approach the last year of IIJAfunding, coalitions have formed to support enacting similar spending in the forthcoming 2026 surface transportation reauthorization bill and the next Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act in 2028-29.
The first of these groups was the Modern Skies Coalition, unveiled in May 2025. Its 60 members include just about every aviation trade association, 14 aviation unions, along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The group has argued for over $30 billion of new federal general fund spending, primarily to modernize the country's aging air traffic control system, which really does need large-scale capital investment in both facilities and technologies. This coalition has already gotten Congress to provide $12.5 billion for the Federal Aviation Administration modernization, and it continues to argue for another $20 billion, calling the first sum merely a "down payment."
In December 2025, a similar Move America Coalition was formed for surface transportation, with 23 members to date, including highway and transit organizations, related trade associations, four unions, two government bodies, and (again) the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Its number one objective is to push for 2026 surface transportation reauthorization funding at or above the levels set by the IIJA.
In my view, both of these campaigns are misguided. To be sure, more capital investment in aviation and surface transportation infrastructure is needed, as this country continues to grow and replace aging infrastructure. But this is an unwise way to address these needs, for two reasons.
The first is that these groups are seeking money from the federal government's general fund, which the government would have to borrow. This departs dramatically from the long-standing users-pay/users-benefit principle under which U.S. airports, air traffic control, and highways have long been funded. Dedicated revenue streams are far more secure and reliable than general fund support, which must compete with everything else the federal government does. It's also safer because during economic downturns, general fund spending may be cut back, but dedicated user-fee funding is more likely to remain stable.
Dedicated users-pay funding also distinguishes air and much surface transportation from other infrastructure that can legitimately be termed subsidized. Advocates of larger funding for heavily subsidized Amtrak, for example, would love to be able to claim that competing highways and air travel are 'also subsidized,' but they aren't, as long as they are funded by user fees.
The second and much more serious reason to oppose a repeat of IIJA-scale spending is the federal government's looming insolvency. Social Security's own actuaries point out that the program's trust fund will be empty by 2033. The Medicare trust fund is expected to run out around the same time.
For the federal government to borrow hundreds of billions more for programs like the bipartisan infrastructure law would make the nation's debt crisis even more intractable.
Today, the national debt is approximately equal to this country's annual gross domestic product, which it has never been except during wars. The Congressional Budget Office business-as-usual projections show increasing annual budget deficits as far as the eye can see, and the national debt growing far beyond 100% of GDP.
Social Security's insolvency is less than a decade away. Creating new spending commitments like a repeat IIJA is the height of fiscal irresponsibility. The members of the above spending coalitions should not ignore the fiscal realities of the next decade.
Congress should focus on preparing America's vital transportation infrastructure for greater self-sufficiency, rather than further increasing annual budget deficits and ballooning the national debt.
What would this mean, in practice, for both the 2026 surface transportation reauthorization and the 2028-29 FAA reauthorization?
For surface transportation, federal funding needs to start on a downward path so that state departments of transportation are not suddenly cut off in 2033 or 2034. Initial steps for Congress could include eliminating discretionary grants, banning earmarks, and considering increasing federal gasoline and diesel user taxes to offset inflation, since those taxes were last increased in 1993 To promote state transportation departments' greater self-sufficiency, Congress should also eliminate the $30 billion cap on private activity bonds to make it easier for states to finance megaprojects via long-term public-private partnerships.
Congress should also expand the tiny federal Interstate highway tolling law, the Interstate System Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program (ISRRPP), to apply to all states and all Interstate highways within each state, so that other states can follow Indiana's lead in rebuilding their aging Interstates via toll revenue financing.
The U.S. Department of Transportation could also fund research on how states could convert state highway systems to self-funded highway utilities, with the ability to charge user fees sufficient to cover current and future capital and operating and maintenance expenditures, and with the user fees paid directly to the highway utility entity (which could be state-owned or investor-owned).
The state transportation departments' roles would evolve to focus on safety, policy, and regulation, not construction or operation. The aim would be to have these policy changes underway by the time the federal government is dealing with the Social Security and Medicare bankruptcies.
For aviation, Congress should replace the passenger ticket tax paid to the federal government with global standard weight-distance user fees paid by airlines and business jets everywhere else in the world. Those user fees should be paid directly to the FAA's Air Traffic Organization (ATO), which should be separated from the FAA, which is the air safety regulator and should be at arm's length from the operator of the air traffic system, per long-standing International Civil Aviation Organization policy, which Congress has ignored.
Commercial airports that now rely on federal Airport Improvement Program (AIP) grants should be allowed to increase their passenger facility charges (PFCs) to offset the loss of those grants. Congress could also encourage greater use of long-term public-private partnership leases by allowing existing airport revenue bonds to remain in place when an airport transitions to a long-term P3 lease.
These are not small changes, but they are needed to safeguard vital highway and aviation infrastructure from the coming federal insolvency. Since we know the United States has severe financial challenges coming in the decades ahead, now is the time to start protecting air and surface transportation infrastructure from these problems.
Congress needs to start implementing these transportation policy changes in the upcoming surface and aviation reauthorization bills, rather than waiting until federal insolvency and fiscal chaos have fully arrived.
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A version of this column first appeared in Public Works Financing.
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Robert Poole is director of transportation policy and Searle Freedom Trust Transportation Fellow at Reason Foundation.
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Original text here: https://reason.org/commentary/surface-transportation-bill-looming-debt-crisis/
Foundation for Economic Education: These Schools Are Seeing a January Enrollment Surge
DETROIT, Michigan, Jan. 22 -- The Foundation for Economic Education posted the following commentary:
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These Schools Are Seeing a January Enrollment Surge
Microschools and other new learning models make it easier for dissatisfied students and families to shift to a new school midyear.
By Kerry McDonald
Kara Fox did not want to wait. A mom of two, she was frustrated by the fall semester at her children's traditional private school near Omaha, Nebraska-particularly for her 12-year-old son, Gavin. "He just felt so hopeless already in the second quarter, before the end of the first semester,"
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DETROIT, Michigan, Jan. 22 -- The Foundation for Economic Education posted the following commentary:
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These Schools Are Seeing a January Enrollment Surge
Microschools and other new learning models make it easier for dissatisfied students and families to shift to a new school midyear.
By Kerry McDonald
Kara Fox did not want to wait. A mom of two, she was frustrated by the fall semester at her children's traditional private school near Omaha, Nebraska-particularly for her 12-year-old son, Gavin. "He just felt so hopeless already in the second quarter, before the end of the first semester,"said Fox, explaining that the rigidity of a conventional classroom and curriculum weren't working well for her son who has ADHD and is on the autism spectrum.
Fox tried to communicate with the school, urging changes and more personalization, but she found the teachers and administrators to be unresponsive. "They were unbendingly focused on their programs and agenda for fifth graders that they weren't willing to accommodate for meeting him where he was mentally," said Fox, who has a bachelor's degree in early childhood education and served for over 20 years in the US Air Force and Air Force Reserve.
She began to look for other educational options for Gavin, and his younger brother Gabriel, a second-grader. When she discovered Masterpiece Academy, a K-12 microschool launched in 2022 by former public school teacher Hannah Holguin, Fox knew it was the perfect place for her children. "When I walked in, the environment-the spirit-was just so peaceful and happy," she recalled. Fox pulled her children out of their private school in December, and immediately enrolled them in Masterpiece Academy, where they are technically considered homeschoolers but attend the onsite, half-day program five days a week, surrounded by peers and taught by experienced educators.
Fox is among a growing number of parents who decide to switch their children's school midyear, something that is becoming easier to do as microschools and related learning models become more widespread. Unlike many traditional private schools-which typically have set admissions and enrollment cycles, lengthy application processes and hefty tuition price tags-today's emerging schooling models are usually low-cost, flexible and highly personalized. They often have rolling admissions, with students able to enroll throughout the year-which I write about extensively in my latest book.
In states with generous school-choice policies that allow a portion of state-allocated education funding to follow families to their preferred learning environments, students can attend these innovative schools for free or with reduced tuition. That's the case for most of the students enrolled at Creative Minds, a K-12 microschool in Wendell, North Carolina. It was founded in 2024 by Lisa Swinson, a longtime public school teacher who was working at the state Department of Public Instruction when she decided to become an education entrepreneur. "As I was helping people across the state, I knew that I needed to come back home to help local families because I was starting to hear a lot of conversations about people just needing something different," said Swinson.
She was accepted into the Drexel Fund Founder Program, a one-year paid fellowship to support promising founders launching new schools, with a commitment to serving low-income students. Swinson's school has grown from 10 students last year to 34 students today, along with three full-time teachers and an instructional assistant.
Creative Minds is a licensed private school with a full-time tuition of $7,600. Ninety percent of Swinson's families attend with free or reduced tuition using the state's Opportunity Scholarships, a school-choice program that became universal in 2023, enabling all North Carolina K-12 students to be eligible for private school vouchers. The remaining 10% of Creative Minds students are homeschoolers who attend the microschool three days a week at an annual tuition of $4,900, or full-time students whose parents pay full tuition out of pocket.
Swinson says that more families in her area are looking for alternatives to conventional schooling-both public and private. She welcomed seven new students to Creative Minds this month. "What I hear from parents is that we provide individualized instruction to their students. We individualize everything, from choosing electives, to how they go about learning, to what curriculum to use. Everything is very personalized," said Swinson, who uses nationally-normed standardized tests to determine a student's skill level upon enrollment, and then customizes a learning plan based on the child's needs and interests.
Microschool founders across the US are reporting midyear enrollment boosts, as families switch from conventional schools toward smaller, more personalized learning environments. At Curious and Kind Education in Sarasota, Florida, founder Justine Wilson enrolled five new students this month, bringing her total K-12 enrollment to 70 students. She says that 97% of her students attend her program tuition-free using Florida's school-choice programs, which became universal in 2023.
Even in states without robust private school choice programs, microschool founders are reporting midyear enrollment boosts. At the Nevada School of Inquiry, a middle school microschool in Las Vegas, co-founder Christina Threeton welcomed several new students this January, as did Amanda Lucas, founder of Lucas Literacy Lab in New Jersey.
Tom Arnett, a senior fellow at the Christensen Institute, has documented why families are attracted to microschools or similar learning models. "Our research shows that many families who switch schools are driven by the reality that school has become a persistently negative experience for their child," said Arnett, citing a variety of reasons from bullying to boredom. "We also see many families who haven't switched yet but are actively considering it. Microschools often resonate with these families because they offer a more human-scale environment that reduces friction rather than asking children to endure it."
If parents and caregivers are dissatisfied with their child's current school, they don't need to wait until next year to make a change. The growth of microschooling, alongside the expansion of school-choice policies in many states, makes creative schooling options more abundant and accessible-enabling families to find the learning environment that is the best fit for their kids.
For Kara Fox in Nebraska, the midyear school-switch has been positive for her boys. "It's much better because they have been able to just relax and be themselves," she said. Fox encourages more families to consider changing schools sooner than later if they aren't happy. "I wouldn't wait. I would just do it. It's so worth it because it's your kids," she said.
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This article was originally published by The74.
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Kerry McDonald is a Senior Fellow at FEE, where she leads the Education Entrepreneurship Lab and hosts the LiberatED podcast. She is also the Velinda Jonson Family Education Fellow at State Policy Network, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a regular contributor at Forbes.com and The 74. Kerry is the bestselling author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019), and the author of the forthcoming book, Joyful Learning: How To Find Freedom, Happiness, and Success Beyond Conventional Schooling (Hachette/PublicAffairs, 2025).
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Original text here: https://fee.org/articles/these-schools-are-seeing-a-january-enrollment-surge/
Foundation for Economic Education Posts Commentary: Brussels vs. Washington
DETROIT, Michigan, Jan. 22 -- The Foundation for Economic Education posted the following commentary:
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Brussels vs. Washington
Digital regulation's transatlantic divide.
By Claudia Ascensao Nunes
For years, Europe has tried to convince itself that it could regulate its way to technological greatness. Instead of becoming a technological powerhouse, it produced rules, many rules, with effects now extending far beyond its own borders. In 2026, those rules are colliding head on with an American president who refuses to accept that US innovation could be governed from Brussels.
Two regulations
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DETROIT, Michigan, Jan. 22 -- The Foundation for Economic Education posted the following commentary:
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Brussels vs. Washington
Digital regulation's transatlantic divide.
By Claudia Ascensao Nunes
For years, Europe has tried to convince itself that it could regulate its way to technological greatness. Instead of becoming a technological powerhouse, it produced rules, many rules, with effects now extending far beyond its own borders. In 2026, those rules are colliding head on with an American president who refuses to accept that US innovation could be governed from Brussels.
Two regulationssit at the center of this escalating tension. The Digital Markets Act, or DMA, applies to the world's largest digital platforms, the so-called gatekeepers, and forces them to open their ecosystems, share data, and abandon business practices that are central to their models. The Digital Services Act, or DSA, regulates platform content and algorithms, requiring the removal of information deemed illegal or harmful, with all the subjectivity this entails. This risks granting a supranational authority direct power over online speech by compelling platforms to remove content that fails to comply with regulatory guidelines.
These laws, which entered into force in 2022 for the DSA and 2024 for the DMA, appear designed with America's largest technology firms in mind. Five of the six companies designated as DMA gatekeepers are US-based, as are the overwhelming majority of platforms subject to the DSA.
This has placed companies such as Apple, Google, and Meta under constant supervision by Brussels, forcing them to modify products in order to operate in the European market, with consequences not only for firms themselves but also for consumers and innovation more broadly.
In 2025, under the DMA alone, Apple was fined 500 million euros and forced to open iOS to rival app stores and payment systems. Meta was fined 200 million euros and required to alter how it uses user data.
Under EU competition law, Google also received a historic 2.95 billion euro fine for alleged abuse of market dominance in the digital sector and was forced to redesign key aspects of its search engine and advertising business.
Upon taking office, Donald Trump identified this European interventionism as disguised tariffs that artificially raise costs for American firms and strip them of competitive advantages. He threatened to invoke Section 301 of US trade law, the same tool used against China, to retaliate, significantly intensifying tensions between Brussels and Washington.
In December 2025, that tension took on a face: X. The European Commission fined Elon Musk's platform 120 million euros under the DSA, accusing it of failing to manage so-called systemic risks linked to the circulation of political information. For Musk, this amounted to an assault on free speech. The episode appears to have triggered a broader transatlantic diplomatic and commercial escalation. Washington responded by imposing visa bans on five European officials and experts associated with the DSA and threatened tariffs and restrictions against European firms such as SAP, Capgemini, and Mistral AI should Brussels fail to retreat.
The conflict has now spread beyond the European Union. The United Kingdom and Australia have begun discussing restrictions on X, citing risks related to misinformation and online safety, reinforcing the perception that Brussels is asserting itself as a global digital regulator.
Despite pressure from the Trump administration, the European Union shows no signs of slowing down. In 2026, another regulation enters fully into force, the AI Act, which appears once again tailored to American firms. It subjects artificial intelligence systems deemed high-risk, including AI used in hiring, credit, healthcare, public security, content moderation, and high impact generative tools, to mandatory risk assessments, human oversight, and constraints that exist in no other major market. These requirements will delay product launches, raise costs, and force companies to design technologies according to political criteria defined outside the United States.
As a result, 2026 is shaping up to be a particularly challenging year. From a geopolitical perspective, the most immediate risk is the erosion of the transatlantic relationship in a strategic sector. Technology today is an instrument of power, and this escalation among allies is likely to generate incompatible regulatory blocs, fragmenting the digital economy, weakening the West, and opening space for alternative models, particularly China's state-controlled approach.
Consumers stand to lose most from this conflict, along two pillars central to any classical liberal order: first, the free market, as rising compliance costs will inevitably translate into higher prices; second, online free expression, increasingly constrained by incentives for excessive moderation and the preventive removal of lawful but controversial content.
At a moment when the world is rapidly advancing in artificial intelligence, automation, and the technologies that will define the next decade, the European Union is moving in the opposite direction, deepening an interventionism that exceeds the role a state should play.
The European Union must lower barriers, simplify rules, promote competition, and allow innovation to flourish without permanent political oversight.
In today's world, as always, market liberalization is not a threat to consumers. It is their strongest protection and the true engine of progress.
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Claudia Ascensao Nunes is a Portuguese writer and political commentator. She is the President of Ladies of Liberty Alliance - Portugal and a columnist featured in both national and international publications. Claudia collaborates with Young Voices and focuses on economic freedom, European policy, and transatlantic cooperation. She has over 20,000 followers on X (formerly Twitter), where she shares insights on politics, liberalism, and cultural issues.
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Original text here: https://fee.org/articles/brussels-vs-washington/
Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust: Lifesaving Drug, Abiraterone, Now Approved for Men With High-risk Prostate Cancer in England
LONDON, England, Jan. 21 -- The Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust issued the following news:
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Lifesaving drug, abiraterone, now approved for men with high-risk prostate cancer in England
Evidence for the approval came from the STAMPEDE trial, led by The Royal Marsden's Professor Nicholas James
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Abiraterone was discovered by The Institute of Cancer Research, London and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in the early 1990s. By 2012 it was being used for men with incurable prostate cancer after The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved
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LONDON, England, Jan. 21 -- The Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust issued the following news:
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Lifesaving drug, abiraterone, now approved for men with high-risk prostate cancer in England
Evidence for the approval came from the STAMPEDE trial, led by The Royal Marsden's Professor Nicholas James
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Abiraterone was discovered by The Institute of Cancer Research, London and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in the early 1990s. By 2012 it was being used for men with incurable prostate cancer after The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approvedthe drug.
Abiraterone has now been approved for use in the NHS for men in England with prostate cancer that has a high risk of spreading. As a result, thousands of lives will be saved each year.
Evidence for the approval came from the STAMPEDE trial, which was led by Professor Nicholas James, Consultant Clinical Oncologist at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Team Leader in Prostate and Bladder Cancer Research at The Institute of Cancer Research, London. The trial aimed to determine the best way of treating men with newly diagnosed advanced prostate cancer, by investigating multiple treatment options, including chemotherapy, hormone therapy and radiotherapy.
Risk of prostate cancer recurrence halved by abiraterone
Results from the trial proved that a two-year course of abiraterone has proven to be game-changing for men with high-risk, non-metastatic prostate cancer, halving the risk of their cancer coming back after treatment and vastly reducing their risk of dying from the disease.
In 2022, the treatment was approved for use in the NHS in Scotland and Wales and has now been approved for use in England.
"The extension of abiraterone for men with newly diagnosed high-risk prostate cancer that has not yet spread represents a breakthrough moment for patients and their families across England," said Professor James.
"Results from the STAMPEDE trial show that just two years of treatment can halve the risk of the cancer returning and cut the risk of death by 40 per cent. Over the next five years, nearly 8,000 men could be spared the shock and heartbreak of hearing that their cancer has come back."
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Original text here: https://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/news-and-events/news/lifesaving-drug-abiraterone
J. Paul Getty Trust: Bryson Family Expands Endowment for Conservation Efforts
LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 21 -- The J. Paul Getty Trust issued the following news release:
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Bryson Family Expands Endowment for Conservation Efforts
New Gift to the John E. and Louise Bryson Fund will support all aspects of the Getty Conservation Institute's work
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The J. Paul Getty Trust has announced an additional $5 million gift from Louise Bryson to the John E. and Louise Bryson Fund, an endowment established to further the work of the Getty Conservation Institute.
The fund was originally established in 2017 by John E. and Louise Bryson with a landmark $5 million gift to support
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LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 21 -- The J. Paul Getty Trust issued the following news release:
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Bryson Family Expands Endowment for Conservation Efforts
New Gift to the John E. and Louise Bryson Fund will support all aspects of the Getty Conservation Institute's work
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The J. Paul Getty Trust has announced an additional $5 million gift from Louise Bryson to the John E. and Louise Bryson Fund, an endowment established to further the work of the Getty Conservation Institute.
The fund was originally established in 2017 by John E. and Louise Bryson with a landmark $5 million gift to supportthe Institute's efforts. The couple's philanthropic support was recognized by establishing Getty's first named position, the John E. and Louise Bryson Director of the Getty Conservation Institute. With this new gift, the naming of the directorship will be made permanent while expanding the fund's commitment to support the Institute's work.
"We are deeply grateful to Louise and John Bryson for their steadfast and generous support of Getty, especially the work within the Getty Conservation Institute," says Katherine E. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. "This incredible new vote of confidence in our people and programs will ensure that the Institute can continue to expand its groundbreaking work and research for years to come."
Louise Bryson's involvement with Getty spans many years, and she has played a pivotal role in its leadership since joining as a trustee in 1998. She was appointed chair of the board of trustees in 2006, became chair emerita in 2010, and cofounded the Getty Conservation Institute Council. She is a former member of Getty's President's International Council and has been a dedicated supporter of PST ART (formerly Pacific Standard Time), the Getty Patron Program, and other major initiatives, including the Institute's 2016 exhibition Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China's Silk Road.
Additionally, she spent more than 30 years in media leadership roles at Lifetime Television and FX Networks, is a member of the Trustees' Council of the National Gallery of Art, and has served on the boards of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the California Community Foundation. She was a director of several funds at Capital Group-American Funds, a trustee of Southern California Public Radio, and a former chair of KCET and member of the PBS National Board.
John Bryson was an executive whose career merged leadership roles in the public and private sectors. He served as secretary of commerce under President Barack Obama, chairman and CEO of Edison International, and earlier as president of the California Public Utilities Commission and chair of the California State Water Resources Control Board, shaping regional and national environmental policy. He cofounded the National Resources Defense Council as a recent law school graduate in 1970.
"I'm delighted to support the outstanding work of the Getty Conservation Institute, which continues to have a remarkable impact preserving cultural heritage in Los Angeles and with partners across the globe," says Louise Bryson. "Getty plays a unique role in the art world as a catalyst and convener, and we know that our gift will sustain important work long into the future."
"Louise has set a high bar as a Getty trustee and chair emerita," says Robert W. Lovelace, current chair of Getty's board of trustees. "She led the board with integrity and passion and has been instrumental in nurturing so many initiatives that make Getty an institution admired around the world. We are honored that the Bryson family will continue to be associated with Getty through the directorship of the Conservation Institute."
The Institute works internationally to advance conservation practice, supporting cultural heritage professionals worldwide through research, education, training, and field projects. It continues to serve as a global leader in heritage conservation, creating knowledge and tools that empower professionals to protect the world's cultural legacy.
"Louise's commitment to and partnership with the Institute remain some of my most valued collaborations during my time at Getty," says Tim Whalen, John E. and Louise Bryson Director of the Getty Conservation Institute. "Her continued dedication and generosity toward everything we do within the Institute and around the world allow us to extend the important work we are privileged to carry out to preserve the world's cultural heritage."
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Original text here: https://www.getty.edu/news/bryson-family-expands-endowment-for-conservation-efforts/
Ford Foundation Gallery Presents Humid Traces
NEW YORK, Jan. 21 -- The Ford Foundation issued the following news on Jan. 20, 2026:
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Ford Foundation Gallery presents Humid Traces
The Ford Foundation Gallery is pleased to present Humid Traces, an exhibition exploring the ways in which bodies of water are turned into borders in the context of rising temperatures and extreme weather events. Curated by Federico Perez Villoro, the show brings together a group of artists from around the globe whose work addresses the tactical use of water to reinforce artificial divisions of space. In doing so, they produce evidence on the violent effects
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NEW YORK, Jan. 21 -- The Ford Foundation issued the following news on Jan. 20, 2026:
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Ford Foundation Gallery presents Humid Traces
The Ford Foundation Gallery is pleased to present Humid Traces, an exhibition exploring the ways in which bodies of water are turned into borders in the context of rising temperatures and extreme weather events. Curated by Federico Perez Villoro, the show brings together a group of artists from around the globe whose work addresses the tactical use of water to reinforce artificial divisions of space. In doing so, they produce evidence on the violent effectsof technologies used to control migration.
Humid Traces features work by Dele Adeyemo, Archivo Familiar del Rio Colorado, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Zishaan A Latif, Caio Reisewitz, Susan Schuppli, Marisa Srijunpleang, Studio Folder, and Leonel Vasquez. Through immersive installation, sound, photography, video, and data visualization, their practices offer multidisciplinary engagements with water's material memory as a living record. They reorganize sensitive geographies of geological and human experiences, resourcing to our most intimate connections to water as an indivisible, shared mesh.
Historically, water has been treated as a tool for organizing territory. Rivers divide nations, while hydropower projects have displaced communities. Given their continuous redirection and evolution, rivers would not appear to make efficient boundaries. However, their turbulent courses are exploited to discourage the movement of people, while at the same time to conceal the engineering that shapes borders. Furthermore, rivers' fluidity becomes a reason to militarize them--as water pushes soil in an ongoing process of erosion, borders also shift, requiring forceful means to contain them. Such an illusion of stability is further stressed by climate change, which both provokes migration and directly affects the transformation of waterways at large. Humid Traces looks into real examples of how water and society mutually shape each other.
The exhibition reveals bodies of water as contested sites where climate crisis and border policies collide. A commissioned installation by Archivo Familiar del Rio Colorado combines historical materials, found objects, and cartographic ephemera to document vanishing water bodies and the residual histories inscribed in the Colorado River Delta, at the border between the United States and Mexico. Zishaan A Latif's photography documents the Miyas of Assam, a Bengali-speaking Muslim community that has migrated for generations to North Eastern India. In The Edge (2023), photographs of the Miya People along the transnational Brahmaputra River show their use of traditional technologies to resist nationalist policies, which require people to demonstrate they live in a fixed place for citizenship, even as erosion continually changes the landmass and blurs boundaries. Further bearing witness to displacement caused by environmental destruction, selected photographs from ALTAMIRA (2017) by Caio Reisewitz meditate on the impacts of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on the Amazonian rainforest and Indigenous communities living along the Xingu River. The series' subtle red-infused shadows record traces of colonial erasure.
The works exhibited challenge the lines inscribed in dominant maps by centering the testimonies, data, and archives carried by water and ice. An installation, Italian Limes (2014-2019) by Italy-based Studio Folder, tracked the accelerating drift of Alpine borders due to global warming through GPS sensors positioned on glaciers. The project reframes national boundaries as fragile, mutable constructs. Encounters with water in its many changing forms in the show aim to entangle our relationship to it, unsettling familiar understandings of its liquid state as primary or static. Through this, it seeks to destabilize categories of classification and conceptual separation. The video work Moving Ice (2024) by researcher and artist Susan Schuppli documents the extractive commoditization of temperature. It follows the history of water transported and traded as commercial ice to cool the tropics and serve global elites.
The show explores the traces imprinted on land and water to unearth hidden or suppressed histories. Marisa Srijunpleang's deeply moving work focuses on the Thai-Cambodian borderlands. Her travels in search of her grandparents' former house recover experiences of her relatives during the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, as well as the tradition of the Phka Bayben flower, used in honoring ancestors. A sculpture made from a flower's seeds becomes an elegiac metaphor for her family's stories. In Wey Dey Move: A Dance of the Mangroves (2023), Dele Adeyemo incorporates sand, projected video, and spatial installation in an enveloping meditation on what can be learned from the liminal environments of mangrove ecosystems surrounding the megacity of Lagos, Nigeria. In Leonel Vasquez's featured work Water Flute (2023), water set into motion by a hydraulic system creates resonant chanting, a breath-like exchange between the air within and external to water, inviting visitors to attune to it as a medium of profound contact with the environment. Also stirring intimacy through engagements with land and water, Retiro (2019), a multi-channel video installation by Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, offers a cinematic portrait through the lens of the artist's mother, Gloria. Blending reenactments with behind-the-scenes footage in Puerto Rico, the work gestures toward the entwined fluidities of transgenerational memory, identity, and the geography of the islands around and within us. Collectively, the works in Humid Traces consider water not as a resource at the service of human needs, but as a moving pulse--a fundamental force that reconfigures temporal and spatial metrics.
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About the Curator
Federico Perez Villoro is an artist and researcher based in Mexico City exploring the relationship between technology and political ecologies. His recent work investigates the ever-evolving morphology of the Rio Grande / Bravo and the shifting border between Mexico and the United States. His work has been exhibited at institutions such as Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Espacio Odeon, Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Palm Springs Art Museum, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, and Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca. He is the founder of Materia Abierta, a program on theory, art, and technology in Mexico City developed with Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Museo Tamayo, and Casa del Lago UNAM. He is a research resident at TBA21-Academy where he investigates access to fresh water in the Caribbean. In 2023, he received the Jumex Grant Program Award from the Jumex Arte Contemporaneo Foundation and the C/Change Fellowship from the Goethe-Institut and Gray Area in the United States. He has been a resident at Pivo Pesquisa and Capacete in Brazil and at OCAT in China. His writing has been published by NACLA Report on the Americas, Luna Cornea, ADOCS, DELUS, The Serving Library, Printed Matter, C Magazine, Gato Negro Ediciones, diSONARE, Walker Art Center, and Quinto Elemento Lab. Federico has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and California College of the Arts and lectured at UC Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, ETH Zurich, Rutgers University, CalArts, The New School, and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
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About The Ford Foundation Gallery
Opened in March 2019 at the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York City, the Ford Foundation Gallery spotlights artwork that wrestles with difficult questions, calls out injustice, and points the way toward a fair and just future. The gallery functions as a responsive and adaptive space and one that serves the public in its openness to experimentation, contemplation, and conversation. Located near the United Nations, it draws visitors from around the world, addresses questions that cross borders, and speaks to the universal struggle for human dignity.
The gallery is accessible to the public through the Ford Foundation building entrance on 43rd Street, east of Second Avenue.
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The Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is an independent organization working to address inequality and build a future grounded in justice. For nearly 90 years, it has supported visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide, guided by its mission to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. Today, with an endowment of $16 billion, the foundation has headquarters in New York and 10 regional offices across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Learn more at www.fordfoundation.org.
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Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice | 320 E 43rd Street, New York
On View: February 19 - June 20, 2026
Opening Event: Thursday, February 19th, 2026 | 5-7pm
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 11am-6pm, Saturday 10am-4pm
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Original text here: https://www.fordfoundation.org/news-and-stories/news-and-press/news/ford-foundation-gallery-presents-humid-traces/
