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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
Victor Davis Hanson: Ten Reasons for the Zelensky-Trump Blowup
What comes next for relations between the United States and Ukraine?
Victor Davis Hanson
A Fiasco in the Oval Office
The dressing-down of a besieged ally might be ‘great television.’ But it’s terrible for the United States.
Eli Lake
Trump’s Foreign Policy Revolution
America is now just as intent on changing the structure of the world order as Russia and China.
Matthew Continetti
Many Ukrainians Believed in Trump. Now They Feel Betrayed.
‘We used to wear American flag patches on our body armor as a symbol of the land of freedom. Now, we’ve taken them off.’
David Patrikarakos
My Ancestors Fled Ukraine. It Was America That Allowed Me to Return.
Our leaders talk endlessly about the cost of beating Russia. They never talk about the more frightening and much more expensive alternative.
Peter Savodnik
Victor Davis Hanson: Can Trump Troll His Way to a Peace Deal in Ukraine?
Handicapping the dispute between two conservatives I admire: Vice President J.D. Vance and Niall Ferguson.
Victor Davis Hanson
Natan Sharansky: A President’s Words Saved Me in the Gulag
Reagan was our lifeline in the Soviet Union. Trump’s rhetoric betrays Russia’s freedom fighters.
Natan Sharansky
Niall Ferguson: J.D. Vance’s Fighting Words—Against Me and Ukraine
It is not ‘moralistic garbage’ but a hard and realistic lesson of history that wars are easy to start and hard to end.
Niall Ferguson
No, Mr. President, It Was Russia that Started the War
A dishonest narrator of the conflict cannot be an honest broker of peace.
The Editors
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Europe Must Unite or Die
The White House has made itself clear: We can no longer rely on the U.S. So we must rely on ourselves.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
How the U.S. Government Controls Ukrainian Media
USAID funded the vast majority of 'independent' media in Ukraine. What American taxpayers don't realize is that their money went to suppressing the…
Tanya Lukyanova
Niall Ferguson: J.D. Vance Picked a Fight in Germany. Will He Get One in China?
From Mar-a-Gaza to the Eurocrats in Munich, no one—so far—is punching back against this White House. But there is one battle the U.S. cannot afford to…
Niall Ferguson
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