Republican hawks squawk at each other
Should the US slap a no-fly zone over Ukraine? The GOP’s war hawks are divided
Russia
Tuesday
Monday
Vladimir Putin, deep statist
His Russia is not some Trumpist paradise but a tyranny of the security bureaucracy
What Erdogan is thinking about Ukraine
Turkey has emerged as a key player in the crisis — just don’t expect them to take a principled stand
Watch out for Ukrainian social media propaganda
It’s easy to get played
Sunday
Putin will escalate
The suffering is only going to get worse — in Ukraine and in Russia too
Rise of the dimwit vodka dumpers
The virtue signalers are out in full force over Russia
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