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TGIF: The Price of War There and Here
People eat at the McDonald's next to the Kremlin in Moscow, on March 10, 2022, before all 850 restaurants in Russia temporarily close. (AFP via Getty Images)
The West’s reaction to the Russian invasion. Plus crime, the end of Covid, and ‘Don’t Say Gay.’
By Nellie Bowles
03.11.22 — TGIF
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TGIF. I’ll try to keep it tighter this week. Here are the headlines we’re watching, plus a summary of this week in the Common Sense newsroom. 

→Ukraine still holding: Another week, another impressive update from the completely out-manned and out-spent Ukrainian army, which continues to hold against the Russians. CNN, which shines in foreign coverage desp…

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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