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
Ukraine
Thursday
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?
Is Europe a continent? Does it matter?
The ‘continent’ is a lot more than what Nikole Hannah-Jones considers a racist ‘dog whistle’
Tuesday
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
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
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
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