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I Used to Be a Complacent Wall Street Guy. Now I’m an Anti-Trump Protester.
Evan Newmark had never participated in a protest in his life. Three weeks ago, that changed. Now, every day, he heads to the Trump Hotel. Why?
Evan Newmark
When War Crashed Through the Window
Muscovites have long been insulated from the war their country launched. That changed on Tuesday, when Ukraine unleashed a major drone attack on the…
Tanya Lukyanova
Fight Club: Are Israel and Ukraine’s Wars the Same—or Worlds Apart?
Eli Lake believes it is incoherent to continue support for Israel while cutting off Ukraine. Michael Brendan Dougherty disagrees.
Eli Lake and Michael Brendan Dougherty
Is Trump’s Mineral Deal Unprecedented? Not Exactly.
For lessons on the president’s offer to Ukraine, look back at FDR.
Ed Conway
Douglas Murray: How MAGA Lost Its Way on Ukraine
Ukraine is not just a country that the Trumpian right has never visited. It is a fantasy country that they imagine they know everything about.
Douglas Murray
Truth Mattered in the Cold War. And It Matters Now in Ukraine.
Honorable men went to the gulag for refusing to repeat the Kremlin’s lies. Now an American president is echoing them for free.
Eli Lake
Victor Davis Hanson: Can Trump Revolutionize America?
Change is underway—at the border, in our federal government, and abroad. But several forces threaten to undermine success.
Victor Davis Hanson
LISTEN: The Best Reality TV Is Actually in the Oval Office
It’s been four days since the diplomatic earthquake went down in the Oval Office between President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D.
Bari Weiss
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The Ukraine Crisis: What We’re Thinking—and Debating
Victor Davis Hanson, Christopher Caldwell, Michael Oren, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Eli Lake, and more.
Bari Weiss and Oliver Wiseman
Christopher Caldwell: Zelensky’s Trumpian Trick
People who like Zelensky dislike Trump. They seem not to have noticed that the Ukrainian leader is the most Trump-like politician in the world.
Christopher Caldwell
Michael Oren: What Zelensky Can Learn from Netanyahu
When Bibi collided with Obama in 2011, Rahm Emanuel pounded my chest and barked: ‘Your [expletive] prime minister cannot come into the [expletive] White…
Michael Oren
What Average Americans Think of Trump’s Showdown with Zelensky
Most ordinary voters weren’t horrified by the president’s treatment of an ally. In fact, they agreed with it.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
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