Julia Ioffe’s “Motherland,” a much-anticipated memoir and history of Russia, offers an original take on America’s long-time adversary.
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After Biden’s Visit to Kyiv, Ukrainians Welcome U.S. Aid but Plead for More
Four Ukrainians I’ve gotten to know in the past year are diplomatic but firm. They need additional arms and know their fate is in the hands of a divided Washington.
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Leon Wieseltier’s Moral Posturing on Crimea Suggests He Learned Nothing From his Moral Posturing on Iraq
“There is the question of how to respond practically to Putin’s aggression and there is the question of how to respond intellectually,” writes Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, in his most recent “Washington Diarist” column. “The latter is no less important than the former, because the Ukrainian crisis is not a transient […]
