Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky’s Western allies have worried that the surprise, cross-border attack will provoke Vladimir Putin to escalate.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss her translation of “Testimonies,” by Amelina, and Clare Cavanaugh’s translation of “Map,” by Szymborska.

Amid a new advance by Russian forces, Zelensky faces enormous challenges in marshalling the equipment and the manpower necessary to keep them at bay.

During the last few weeks, American political discourse has been consumed by what’s happening inside a New York City courtroom. But the world outside it hasn’t stopped.

The kingdom has taken control of boxing, and watching Tyson Fury’s bout with Oleksander Usyk, in Riyadh, was a curious experience.

The Speaker’s sudden willingness to bring foreign-aid bills to the House floor risks his Speakership—and Trump’s wrath.

The Russian President has a long history of spinning lapses in security for his own political gain.

As Russians go to the polls, the economy is booming and the public feels hopeful about the future. But the politics of Putinism still depend on the absence of any means to challenge it.

“Donald Trump’s vision, or lack of vision, of what the United States can be in the world is a risk of a kind we really haven’t had in any of our lifetimes,” Evan Osnos says.

Nicola Fegg’s short documentary follows a young woman who becomes a social-media star during the war in Ukraine.

Mogelson received the Magazine Reporting prize for his work in the trenches in Ukraine, and Gessen was honored for their commentary on historical memory and the Israel-Hamas war.

As Congress continues to delay aid and Volodymyr Zelensky replaces his top commander, military experts debate the possible outcomes.

In the Senate, the House, and the White House, leaders are weak—at a time when leading is needed.

Darya Trepova admits that a network of handlers in Ukraine recruited her to hand an explosive device to a far-right propagandist in St. Petersburg—but, she says, they never told her it was a bomb.

Whether folly, hubris, or denial, it was always going to end this way.

In 2024, the most decisive fight may also be the least visible: Russia and Ukraine will spend the next twelve months in a race to reconstitute and resupply their forces.

Biden’s signature support for Ukraine goes from “as long as it takes” to “as long as we can.”

The articles that sustained the longest hold on readers during a year when many avoided the news.

How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today.

Worries about a second Trump term and the end of aid to Ukraine are entirely justified.