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Back to SearchPutin May Not Like How He’s Changed Europe
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has transformed Europe within a matter of weeks. A continent once fractured by the refugee crisis is now taking …
4 years ago
Emily St. John Mandel on Time Travel, Parenting and the Apocalypse
“Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel was published in 2014. That book imagined the world after a pandemic had wiped out, well, almost everyone. …
4 years ago
Can Democrats Turn Their 2022 Around?
With the midterms just over six months away, the electoral prospects for Democrats are looking bleak. President Biden’s approval rating is at 42 perc…
4 years ago
Best Of: This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma
“Trauma is much more than a story about something that happened long ago,” writes Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. “The emotions and physical sensations that…
4 years, 1 month ago
A Ukrainian Philosopher on What Putin Never Understood About Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is only getting more brutal: We’ve seen the bodies of civilians strewn in the streets in Bucha, the city of Mariupol alm…
4 years, 1 month ago
Fiona Hill on Whether Ukraine Can Win — and What Happens if Russia Loses
The Russia-Ukraine war has changed considerably in recent weeks. Vladimir Putin is no longer talking explicitly about regime change in Ukraine. The R…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Most Thorough Case Against Crypto I've Heard
The hype around cryptocurrencies has reached a fever pitch. There are Super Bowl ads for crypto companies featuring celebrities like Matt Damon and L…
4 years, 1 month ago
Sanctioning Russia Is a Form of War. We Need to Treat It Like One.
The Russian political scientist Ilya Matveev recently described the impact of the West’s sanctions on his country as “30 years of economic developmen…
4 years, 1 month ago
I Keep Hoping Larry Summers Is Wrong. What if He’s Not?
“There is a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War II levels than normal recession levels will set off inflationary pressu…
4 years, 1 month ago
Margaret Atwood on Stories, Deception and the Bible
A good rule of thumb is that whatever Margaret Atwood is worried about now is likely what the rest of us will be worried about a decade from now. The…
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