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Russian Roulette

Broad-based sanctions on Russia will also cause hardship in the West.

Spending 12 times as much on our military as Russia didn’t prevent a war in Europe. It just deprived us of resources at home.

Ukrainians deserve our compassion. So do victims of war everywhere else.

How many nuclear powers can dance at the edge of a precipice?

The power of sports to legitimize a regime means they have the power to delegitimize one, too.

Would Putin really blow up the world to seize Ukraine?

Every war eventually ends with diplomacy. The question is how long the killing goes on before the diplomats stop it.

The crisis in Ukraine isn’t exactly the “David and Goliath” story it’s sometimes rendered as.

The media has a responsibility to tell Americans that a major party now openly endorses using violence to overturn elections.

Guard members have stepped up heroically during the pandemic. If we invested in more than just the military, maybe they wouldn’t have to.