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'Civil War' Is Not So Unthinkable
It's not disaster porn, but a warning
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To Trump Supporters, Biden is the Unique Threat to Democracy
If everybody's a fascist, then nobody's a fascist.
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Trump's Ukraine Peace Plan Lacks Specifics
The details of a secret plan to end the war in "24 hours" are nonstarters
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Russia is Unrecognizable One Year After Putin's Invasion of Ukraine
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​​Putin's Theory of Victory: The West Gives Up
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'I May Be Behind Bars, But I’m Freer Than You:' A Russian Antiwar Protester Gets Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison
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Russia Has a Bad News Problem
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Prigozhin's Rebellion
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Victoria Amelina: Remembering a Ukrainian Writer Killed by a Russian Missile
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Q&A: Journalist Isaac Arnsdorf Reports on MAGA's Ground Game to End Democracy
Trump's swing state army has made the GOP purer. But is it a strategy for winning?
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Why Long-Range Western Missiles Matter to Ukraine
With less ammo and troops, Ukraine needs to fight asymmetrically
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Berlin's Mistakes on Ukraine
Germany's chancellor reversed himself on sending tanks to Ukraine. On long-range missiles, it looks like he won't.
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​​Q&A: A Historian Explains Hitler's Rise to Power — and the Parallels to Trump
In a new book, Timothy Ryback writes that Hitler lied about elections and used courts to his political advantage in his relentless quest for absolute…
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Faking the Vote
Analyses of Russia's vote suggests about a third of Putin's ballots may have been falsified.
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Q&A: Journalist Byron Tau Uncovers How the U.S. Created a Surveillance State in Our Smartphones
And how you can protect your phone and Internet browsing.
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Trump Will Not Give a 'Single Penny' to Ukraine if Elected, Says Orban
More details on the plan to end the war in '24 hours'
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A newsletter focused on the crisis of democracy across the globe, with a special focus on Russia's war on Ukraine, written by Luke Johnson.
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