Ukraine

“Tariff Man” is gonna tariff—and other lessons from the predictably unpredictable President’s return to power.

And that the West has misunderstood Vladimir Putin.

The war’s underlying logic has been flipped on its head since the White House meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump.

The historian Stephen Kotkin analyzes what a President who governs in the style of professional wrestling gets wrong—and right—about an unstable world.

The limits of rhetoric in Ukraine.

Trump has suspended all military aid to Ukraine in an apparent attempt to bring the country to the negotiating table. But does Russia need to negotiate?

For decades, Alexander Dugin argued that Russia had a messianic mission, and that destroying an independent Ukraine was necessary to fulfilling it.

Mykola Hryhoryan was on the front lines before being gravely injured. Now, with American support in question and the country’s troops depleted, he’s preparing for the possibility of going back.

Some analysts hoped that Trump might end the war; they are stunned that the U.S. has now “changed sides.”

It’s not just in foreign policy that the President is turning Russia’s way.

Amid the chaos in Washington, the President’s phone call with Putin has Moscow filled with glee.

The President’s various foreign-policy “personas” vacillate between a desire for domination and withdrawal.

Donald Trump has promised to bring a swift end to the war in Ukraine, but Russian troops have already booby-trapped the country with thousands of mines that will take years to remove.

A group of sociologists found that few Russians were steadfast supporters of the war. Most had something more complicated to say.

As the Biden Administration approves new weaponry for Ukrainian forces, Putin has invoked Russia’s nuclear arsenal, but neither move is likely to significantly alter the trajectory of the war.

Any deal will likely be favorable to the Russians, though the clock on Putin’s ability to sustain a wartime economy may be running out.

The Trump Administration will likely take the lead in any negotiations to end the war—a development that Vladimir Putin would welcome.

In and around Kyiv, war has become part of daily life, even as the public grows weary of its costs.

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Dahlias,” by Didi Jackson, and her poem “This Living.”

The Ukrainian President on how to end the war with Russia, the empty rhetoric of Vladimir Putin, and what the U.S. election could mean for the fate of his country.