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Getty / The Atlantic For the West, the Worst Is Yet to Come
Perhaps the Ukraine crisis has saved the West from its pettiness and division. But the bigger picture is far more depressing.
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Courtesy of Esther Safran Foer The Experiment Podcast: What a World War II Survival Story Reveals About Putin’s Lies
One Jewish American family’s debt to Ukraine
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The Atlantic Daily: A Mess of Putin’s Own Making
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed his weaknesses to the world.
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Photo Quest / Getty On Top of Everything Else, Nuclear War Would Be a Climate Problem
Even a “minor” skirmish would wreck the planet.
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Getty; The Atlantic How the West Undermines Its Own Sanctions
The Western sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have been far broader than many experts anticipated. But there’s a catch.
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Getty / The Atlantic China’s Russia Risk
How Beijing manages its relations with Moscow will help define it as a great power.
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Olivier Matthys / AP Putin’s Strategic Error
The Russian leader is creating the very Western alliance he feared.
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Bartek Sadowski / Bloomberg / Getty America Is the World’s Largest Oil Producer. So Why Is Losing Russia’s Oil Such a Big Deal?
The U.S. might be “energy independent,” but it still can’t control production.
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Of Course Putin Is Being Canceled
And that’s a good thing.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Information War Isn’t Over Yet
The online fight between Russia and Ukraine has already surprised propaganda experts. It may only get more chaotic.
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Getty ; The Atlantic What Democracy’s Advocates Can Learn From Ukrainians
The nation has captured the world’s attention with messaging that is messy and honest, hopeful and profane, deadly serious yet wholly unpretentious.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Biden Answered the 3 a.m. Call
It’s hard to imagine that any of his rivals from the last election could have matched the president’s performance in this crisis.
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Michael Nagle / Xinhua / Eyevine / Redux The Food War
The food shock of 2022 is not a good-news story. But our “bad” is less bad than ever before.
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Sergei Guneyev / Getty; The Atlantic I Was Wrong About Putin
When U.S. intelligence started saying that Russia would invade Ukraine, I didn’t believe it.
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The Atlantic Daily: How the West Can Win in Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrust America back into a main role on the world stage, complicating decades-old debates about the force wielded by the U.S.
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Emilio Morenatti / AP Ukrainian Refugees Say Goodbye to Home and Family Members
Images of Ukrainian families fleeing the violence of the Russian invasion and bidding farewell to their homes and some of their family members who are staying to fight
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Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty The Strategy That Can Defeat Putin
The U.S.-led coalition of liberal-democratic states should pursue three objectives.
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Kay Nietfeld / picture alliance / Getty There Are Many Things Worse Than American Power
Blaming U.S. hegemony for global problems has been easy, but Putin’s invasion of Ukraine offers a preview of a much more dangerous world.
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Moises Saman / Magnum What a Decade-Old Conflict Tells Us About Putin
One can trace a straight line from the overthrow of Libya’s dictator Muammar Gaddafi to today’s devastating war in Ukraine.
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The Atlantic The Russian Elite Can’t Stand the Sanctions
The latest measures are far more effective than Western powers’ past efforts to target Russia’s elite.
