The Russian leader has convinced his countrymen that Russia and Ukraine were always one, laying the rhetorical groundwork for a forever war.
Lauren Wolfe
Posted inWar in the Mideast
Massive Evidence Collection in Hamas Rapes Could Be a Turning Point
Mobile phone videos, metadata, eyewitnesses, security cams—all that evidence may be a historic first in the prosecution of rape as a weapon of war.
Posted inPolitics
The Fawns of Auschwitz
A visit to the Nazi death camp amid dehumanization in the Mideast and Ukraine—and the latest Trump outrage—reminds a journalist that each of us has a choice.
Posted inPolitics
In Occupied Regions, Ukrainians Are Being Forced to Accept Russian Passports
The effort to eradicate Ukrainian identity in areas Moscow has “annexed” violates international law and might cross the line into genocide.
Posted inPolitics
Will Vladimir Putin Stand Trial for His Pillage of Ukraine?
As a spring offensive by the Ukrainian military looms, Zelensky visits the Hague and presses for the Russian leader, who already faces an arrest warrant, to be brought to trial—and justice.
Posted inPolitics
Can Putin Be Brought to Justice for Russian War Crimes in Ukraine?
As Ukraine fights for survival, investigators scour the country for evidence of atrocities that are hard but not impossible to prosecute.
Posted inPolitics
In Ukraine, Besieged Journalists Find That “Press” Insignia Is More Target Than Protection
International law protects reporters and medical personnel doing their jobs. But those norms are the latest victims of Putin’s war.
Posted inPolitics
Must Journalists Air Lies About Ukraine?
A recent moment on the BBC World Service lays bare a journalistic dilemma.
Posted inPolitics
What the Left and the Right Get Wrong About Afghanistan
An Afghan journalist laments the U.S. media’s coverage of his country.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Migrants Are Increasingly Crossing the English Channel—and Dying Along the Way
How an overstuffed refugee camp on an Italian island shows the depths of the refugee nightmare.
