Ukraine
How The US Has Struggled To Stop The Growth Of A Shadowy Russian Private Army
Vladimir Putin has increasingly relied on the Wagner Group, a private and unaccountable army with a history of human rights violations, to pursue Russia’s foreign policy objectives across the globe.
The US is Making a Diplomatic Solution Difficult in Ukraine
Washington is abuzz over the question of who leaked the Supreme Court draft overturning Roe v. Wade. I am far more interested in who were the unnamed officials who boasted to The New York Times and Washington Post about the United States’ success in helping Ukraine kill Russian generals and sink that warship. These boasts are beyond impolitic.
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Five Points On Russia’s Threats To Expand Its War To Moldova
It's the next conflict that Vladimir Putin might "unfreeze."
The US Must Seek a Negotiated End to the War
In the wake of his visit to Kyiv, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III declared that America’s objective in arming Ukraine was to weaken Russia. “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree it cannot do the kind of things it has done in invading Ukraine,” he said. One can privately hope for such an outcome without declaring it publicly as America’s goal.
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My Visit To The Massive Steel Mill Where Mariupol Is Making Its Last Stand 
A look at the Soviet-era behemoth where the last fighting in Mariupol is taking place.
