This is a must-listen podcast talk between Lulu NYT & her Iraqi colleague Ali Hamdani. This brought up so many emotions for me, including grief over the 2 The New York Times Iraqi colleagues who were killed and many who suffered. A gift listen on the war: nytimes.com/2023/03/23/opi…

'I will fight from the inside': How Trump and his generals went to war -- with each other. An excerpt from our new book 'THE DIVIDER; Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,' with ⁦Susan Glasser⁩ in this week's ⁦The New Yorker⁩ newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

The great Adam Liptak on the case of Dennis Wayne Hope who has been in solitary confinement in Texas for 27 years nytimes.com/2022/04/15/pod…

Why the next few weeks is so critical to the future of the war in Ukraine, with Eric Schmitt and Thomas Gibbons-Neff nytimes.com/2022/04/13/pod…

excellent piece on Russians Turning on One Another Over the War by Anton Troianovski nytimes.com/2022/04/09/wor…

Russia is moving out of authoritarianism — where political passivity and civic disengagement are key features — into totalitarianism, which relies on mass mobilization, terror and homogeneity of beliefs, one expert argued.

“Putin is so convinced that he cannot afford to lose, that he will escalate,” one expert said of Putin in Ukraine. “He has staked everything on it.”

Russia is moving out of authoritarianism — where political passivity and civic disengagement are key features — into totalitarianism, which relies on mass mobilization, terror and homogeneity of beliefs, one expert argued.

Russians long lived with an understanding: Stay away from politics, and live your life as you choose. The war in Ukraine wrecked that idea. tinyurl.com/m6ew6vrr

In the weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, I have felt like I am watching someone I love lose their mind. tinyurl.com/m6ew6vrr

Four stories of escape, by Ukrainian women, in their own words, tell of the sharp, sudden alternate reality of war. 'One day you are driving to the dentist. The next you are whispering with strangers in a dark basement.' nytimes.com/2022/03/20/wor…

'One day you are driving to the dentist. The next you are whispering with strangers in a dark basement.'

Sabrina Tavernise, in Ukraine, on the 'sheer weirdness of the moment things change, when your body is moving in ways that your brain can’t comprehend.'

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