The president of Kazakhstan throws massive shade at Putin, saying that "if only one person holds the highest office for a long time, this situation brings honor neither to this country nor its government."

Armed vigilantes successfully shut down a drag show at a museum in Memphis. Here we go again. 1950s.

Can’t wait to read it!

An ad for Russians traveling to the US. Beware. Gay people! Eeeek. Even worse, vegetarians! The scariest thing, though, is that the Russian traveler appears to relish eating gray, airplane food.

Super fun! toxic waste exploration in St. Louis. superfunusa.org

Nowhere to hide: How a nuclear war would kill you—and almost everyone else. - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists thebulletin.org/2022/10/nowher…

Super article by Rustam Khan on how a Soviet city comes together from pipes to rails. “The Master Rarely Casts His Eye Here”: Water and Urban Infrastructure in Postwar Vladivostok bit.ly/3TIrJ83

AHR podcast: Martha Hodes recounts how she came to write a book about her experience as a child hostage on a kidnapped plane. historians.org/art-and-histor… Martha Hodes American Historical Review

A happy surprise to win this book award! Cambridge University Press - Religion Cambridge University Press

On a snowy afternoon in Moscow last week, a trickle of people entered a vast hall under the Kremlin walls, past riot police, to see a v unusual new show: an exhibition on Ukraine. For a walk through the Kremlin view of the world, a thread: on.ft.com/3EqTX0C

Marjoleine Kars delivered the Cundill Prize lecture last night. Brilliantly.

Ariel Lambe's "Seeing Madness in the Archives" is one of the most courageous essays I've ever read. Just out in the AHR. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-ab…

Before you start to think that fusion will save the climate, read this. thebulletin.org/2022/12/the-en…

Sounds like a case of harassment.

Yes. This is another way that the Chornobyl region is a hot spot.

You can never go home again. Kenda Mutongi on diaspora life. Brilliant. bostonreview.net/articles/a-pie…

The U.S. doesn't have enough native seeds and plant stock to restore habitat. A former student, Eve Allen, who taught me more than the other way around, is working to fix that problem. theconversation.com/a-shortage-of-…

Exxon isn't even trying to stop climate change. Even compared to other oil giants, they look bad. Boycott! businessgreen.com/opinion/411711…

Ok, explosives on the roof of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is making me really nervous.

Tom Bailie, a courageous farmer who spoke for nuclear downwinders everywhere is no longer among the living. I'll miss his late-night phone calls. spokesman.com/stories/2024/j…