by Megan Hyska When Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s denazifying Ukraine, he no doubt expects some people, in Russia and abroad, to believe him. Many in […]
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Can Ukraine make us see that the International Criminal Court matters?
by Sara L. Ochs Two years ago, the U.S. government treated the International Criminal Court like an enemy of the state. Now, the ICC may be the […]
Gerrymandering the Constitution
by Lawrence Goldstone The Roberts court’s record for safeguarding voting rights is hardly impressive. Rather than view access to the ballot box as fundamental to a healthy […]
How can we enjoy our lives here in the U.S. when life is hell for Ukrainians?
by Stephen J. Lyons Two weekends ago, crocuses bloomed in our Midwest garden. Temperatures reached 70 degrees. In the middle of the night, we experienced our first […]
Unforced GOP errors could help Democrats
by Carl P. Leubsdorf The Democrats face a tough fight to retain their tenuous hold on the U.S. Senate, but they’ve gotten some unexpected help in recent […]
The IRS must be properly funded; here’s why
by Alexander R.M. Boyle The Internal Revenue Service is the government agency that taxpayers “love to hate,” but starving it to death is bad for the country. […]
Free speech and press need freedom of information
by Kevin Goldberg “The right to speak and the right to print, without the right to know, are pretty empty.” These are the words of Harold Cross, […]
Journalism and truth telling in wartime
by Rob Okun Brent Renaud. Marina Ovsyannikova. One a US filmmaker killed by Russian troops on March 13 while working on a documentary about refugees. The other, […]
I nearly died from COVID. Now I’m letting go of the fear
by David Lat Two years ago, I was in a hospital bed on the 15th floor of NYU Langone hospital in Manhattan, dying of COVID-19. A previously […]
Losing, desperate Putin can be terrifying
by Hal Brands The war in Ukraine is getting more dangerous, in part because it is going better than Ukraine’s supporters could have imagined. President Joe Biden […]
