A matter of time
In attacking Iran, Trump officials ignored the brutal lesson of America’s long war in Afghanistan
Reporting on Ukraine
News and views on the war, plus tracing the line from Stalin to Putin.
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This is what democracy looks like
For the second time in a year, street protests have forced Ukraine’s president to backpedal
Wartime is a bad time for a turf war
Political infighting forced out Ukraine’s popular, drone-savvy defense minister. The move risks undercutting the military’s momentum and troop morale.
The lost fathers of Ukraine
On Father’s Day, recalling a WWII soldier from Lviv killed by the Red Army as Russia once again deprives Ukraine of its future ‘tatos'
War and faith
In Russia's invasion, I see the absence of the Almighty. But in Ukrainians, I find hope that man’s inhumanity to man need not be the epitaph of our species.
The call of the land
Kyiv understands what DC doesn’t: Giving up territory means giving up people who don’t want to be given up
The ugly Americans
In sports and war alike, the world sees a sneering, soulless, belligerent nation that turns more Russian by the day
Sowing generational fury
Putin learned the hard way that his war, rather than turn Ukrainians against Kyiv, seeded lasting hatred for Russia. Netanyahu and Trump missed the memo.
Pity the civilians
One appalling factor links the Israel-U.S. war against Iran and Russia's invasion of Ukraine: the deaths of innocents
Four years of war, four years of loss
The collective absence of Ukraine's fallen troops looms as a constant presence entering the fifth year of Russia's invasion