The Dread Election
One recent morning, I texted a Democratic source to ask if she had time to talk about the presidential election. She replied: “I wish for death.” She was kidding, obviously.…
The Fight to Free Evan Gershkovich
Growing up in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and ’70s, Mikhail Gershkovich and Ella Milman learned to be careful. Children knew not to repeat what their parents said in…
Why Evan Gershkovich Is on the Cover of TIME
There are two moments in Charlotte Alter’s cover story on the unjust imprisonment of American journalist Evan Gershkovich that I can’t get out of my head. The first is a…
Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen Series Starts Out Exhilarating But Gets Old Fast
“Do you know what I love about the British aristocracy?” asks an astute character in Netflix’s The Gentlemen. “They’re the original gangsters. The reason they own 75% of this country…
Putin army chief warns WW3 risk is skyrocketing with Ukraine conflict threatening to spill across Europe
PUTIN’S feared army chief has sent out a chilling warning to the West saying the risk of WW3 is “significantly” skyrocketing closer to reality. Colonel-General Vladimir Zarudnitsky said the devastating…