Tim Judah The Russian Terror As Russian forces have retreated from some parts of Ukraine, more and more evidence has emerged of summary executions, looting, and destruction. July 2, 2022 issue
Antonia Hitchens Among Ukraine’s Foreign Fighters The spectacle of popular resistance to the Russian invasion has drawn thousands of volunteers to the international legion. But who are they, and what motivates them? March 26, 2022
Olesya Khromeychuk The Nation Ukraine Has Become The reason resistance to the Russian invasion is so strong is that the country’s people already chose a new, decisively democratic identity. March 25, 2022
Odd Arne Westad The Long Shadow of Nuclear War Putin has issued a stark reminder that the architecture of the atomic arms race was never dismantled. But his cold-war superpower gambit won’t win the war in Ukraine. March 18, 2022
Jacob Heilbrunn The Hawks Ascending Russia’s war on Ukraine has opened up a new front in Washington’s foreign policy elite, mobilizing veterans of the cold war and Iraq. Especially on the right, a fierce fight is in prospect. March 14, 2022
Fintan O’Toole The Last of Her Kind Angela Merkel emerged from the ruins of the Eastern bloc as a spectacular example of the way the collapse of an old regime might create a much more benign sense of opportunity. July 2, 2022 issue
Sophie Pinkham Perversions of Historical Memory “Writing about Russia feels different after this invasion.” March 12, 2022
Fred Kaplan ‘A Bridge Too Far’ Even the most ardent advocates of NATO expansion after the implosion of the USSR realized that it had limits—and one of those limits was Ukraine. July 2, 2022 issue
Jonathan Stevenson How Trump Sabotaged Ukraine Even as he promoted a fiction of Kyiv’s interference in US politics, the president was busy meddling himself. What his own adviser called a “drug deal” paved Putin’s way. March 11, 2022
Tim Judah Holding On in Irpin For the moment, the Ukrainians are winning by simply not losing. July 2, 2022 issue
