Rise of the dimwit vodka dumpers
The virtue signalers are out in full force over Russia
Russia
Sunday
Friday
Ukraine and the art of viral war
Thanks to social media, the conflict feels totally one-sided to observers in the West
Lindsey Graham unites the world
Against him, after calling for Putin’s assassination on national television
Ukraine won’t join the European Union any time soon
Joining the bloc is a long and tedious process unlikely to be fast-tracked
Thursday
Putin’s Stalinist playbook
The Russian leader has eschewed Lenin in favor of a more familiar figure
Russia’s war is not a Trump redux
Trump has nothing to do with Putin, or Ukraine, which have nothing to do with American democracy
America’s long history of sitting out Russian invasions
From Hungary in 1956 to Czechoslovakia in 1968, we’ve often chided but rarely intervened
Pro-Ukraine citizens clash with authorities in Georgia
Public resentment could reach a boiling point in the Caucasus
Wednesday
The Russian Orthodox Church eyes Ukraine
Putin’s government is waging not just a military campaign but a spiritual one
The Ukraine invasion is nothing compared to Iraq
Or Iran or Afghanistan or…
Putin understands America’s moral decay
He and Xi Jinping think we’re weak and dissolving from within. Could they be right?
The creeping authoritarianism of facial recognition
The same technology that Russia uses to keep its people in line has come to America
Tuesday
Putin is making the EU great again
Achieving the impossible: perhaps there’s a silver lining to this awful mess
Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry in a time of war
Those attacking the Ukrainian-American poet for making light of crisis are misreading him
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
And now the dumbest takes about Ukraine
From Bill Kristol to Nikole Hannah-Jones, Twitter’s many geopolitical strategists have been busy
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?