Putin understands America’s moral decay
He and Xi Jinping think we’re weak and dissolving from within. Could they be right?
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Wednesday
Is Europe a continent? Does it matter?
The ‘continent’ is a lot more than what Nikole Hannah-Jones considers a racist ‘dog whistle’
Biden’s vibe shift
Plus: SOTU subplots and Texas primary results
The creeping authoritarianism of facial recognition
The same technology that Russia uses to keep its people in line has come to America
Tuesday
Ash Wednesday and the gift of guilt
A proper dose of guilt here in modern America might be just what we need
Putin is making the EU great again
Achieving the impossible: perhaps there’s a silver lining to this awful mess
Even Hungary has soured on Vladimir Putin
Amid the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s Eastern European ‘allies’ are recoiling
The myth of the Putin Party
Plus: can Kim Reynolds meet the moment, and more
What does Ukraine really mean for Taiwan?
There has been no serious debate over whether Taiwan, a rapidly aging society, can defend itself
Monday
The GOP isn’t quitting on Trump
Nearly two thirds of CPAC attendees want him to be the 2024 nominee
Putin’s endgame is preserving ‘his’ Russia
And his invasion of Ukraine shows how far he’s willing to go to achieve it
The Ukraine invasion is the first social media war
And Volodymyr Zelensky is its star
And now the dumbest takes about Ukraine
From Bill Kristol to Nikole Hannah-Jones, Twitter’s many geopolitical strategists have been busy
How to turn the tide against Russia
The West has no choice but to wage the new cold war that Putin has begun
The West wakes up
Plus: Is he running? And masks off, fences up for the SOTU
What’s next for the officers who watched George Floyd die?
A federal jury found that J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao had violated Floyd’s civil rights
Sunday
Yes, Russia could use nuclear weapons
Putin has put his nuclear forces on alert, forcing us to think the unthinkable
Biden’s confusion over sanctions
He’s cracking down on the autocratic Putin but easing up on autocratic Iran. Why?
Saturday
Our present bewilderment
Greta Thunberg-style eco-apocalypse ranting is now common sense on the left
Friday
No, China isn’t about to invade Taiwan
The idea that Putin’s incursion into Ukraine sends Beijing a signal simply doesn’t hold up
Europe’s ‘green’ transition put it at Russia’s mercy
By abandoning fracking, they didn’t give up fossil fuels; they just imported more from the east
Biden picks Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court
Plus: the White House as bystander on Ukraine and more
What happened to Tough Guy Joe Biden?
As Putin shells Kyiv, the man who threatened to take Trump behind the gym is nowhere to be seen
Where is the neocon war cry over Russia?
Only a quarter of Americans want major US involvement in Eastern Europe
Putin’s path to war in three speeches
The time between 2007 and 2022 was a period of missed opportunities for the West
Thursday
The stakes for Europe are even higher than in 1938
Putin’s invasion has set off a terrifying waiting game across the continent
Eating donuts in Poland as the bombs fall
A country waits on edge for more refugees from Ukraine
Let Russia choke on Ukraine
Occupying a nation can very often backfire, as the United States learned in Afghanistan
The hard left and hard right got Putin dead wrong
Plus: American myopia in the world and more
Never Trumpers play 4D chess over Russia — and lose
They’re thankful Putin didn’t invade under Trump — but if Trump was so weak, why didn’t he?
Biden’s weak words on the Russian invasion
The president was outdone by Boris and Macron, while China spun and sneered
Was Russia’s ‘rape’ of Ukraine inevitable?
Putin has used sexually violent language to refer to Ukraine for some time
Wednesday
Home is where the racism is
Only in America can the privileged claim victimhood while excusing the Chinese Communist Party
Joe Biden is no Jack Kennedy
JFK caused Russia to blink over Cuba, while Biden gave everything away from the start