The news inside Russia has been grim. For protesting against the war in Ukraine, 7,032 Russians are in detention. Long lines are forming at ATMs for cash. Europe and the United States are closing skies…

On Friday night, Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene walked out on stage to the chants of “Putin!” “Putin!” “Putin!” The Georgia Republican was at an event in Orlando sponsored by the America First Political Action Committee, the…

The Kansas Legislature has returned! You’d be forgiven for not knowing it was gone in the first place, but the House and Senate took most of a week off after turnaround. That’s the (largely hypothetical)…

On the midwinter evenings when presidents go to the U.S. Capitol to speak before a joint session of Congress, the state of the union is almost always said to be strong, even when it doesn’t…

Vladimir Putin is tragically mistaken about what people view as leadership. It’s no surprise that the much smaller Ukraine doesn’t have the military might to withstand invading Russian forces. The surprise is that Putin expects…

On Monday, Russian and Ukrainian delegations met for talks on Ukraine’s border with Belarus — one sign of how Vladimir Putin has swallowed the country of Belarus while the world was watching the war in…

History often repeats itself. This phrase used to seem like a cautionary warning but the last two years have transformed it to have a feeling more like a judgmental, “I told you so.” Events I…

Here’s how to understand what life is like now in Kyiv: Imagine yourself living normally, going to work, kids at school, and suddenly the air raid sirens go off and you are rushing into subway…

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the largest ground offensive in Europe since the second world war, has unleashed not one but two struggles. The first is the military conflict for the freedom of Ukraine. The…

“We woke in a different world today,” said Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Thursday. Indeed, we did. Peace across Europe was shattered when Russia launched a full-scale attack on sovereign Ukraine, the most significant…