How an Army of Volunteers Has Welcomed Immigrants in Poland—After the Government Wouldn’t
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.She hadn’t even reached the border when she felt her teeth crack. Diana Kyrychyk had just finished getting a root canal in Ukraine the previous day, but she still had four temporary fillings that needed to…
The Agonizing Life of a College Student in Ukraine
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.A week before Russia invaded Ukraine, Azad Mamedov’s father, feeling the war could break out soon, had asked him to return home from college to be with the family. Azad, a 19-year-old second-year student of economics…
The Pope Calls for Peace in Ukraine
At the Vatican’s first major Easter service since the pandemic, Francis condemns nuclear weapons. Pope Francis leaving his Easter address.Alessandra Tarantino/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Pope Francis called for peace in Ukraine in an Easter address before a crowd of…
Russia’s New Motto: “We Are Not Ashamed”
Editor’s note: This essay’s author is anonymous to protect the writer from potential reprisals. There are relatives with whom one must talk because one is obligated to do so, and undeclared wars make this especially tedious. Some won’t be bothered to discuss “politics” because they think the “special military operation” is not really that big…
The White House Is Shifting Its Tone on Supplying Weapons to Ukraine
Damaged houses and Russian tanks in Bucha, a town recently recaptured by the Ukrainian forces .Daniel Ceng Shou-Yi/Zuma Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.President Joe Biden’s National Security Adviser said Sunday that the United States is giving Ukraine the “weapons it…
I Work With Refugees. After Fleeing Irpin, I’m Now Displaced Myself.
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In 2018, my partner and I—she is Ukrainian, I am American—put together a Google spreadsheet called “Home – Kyiv.” I was due to finish a mission with a humanitarian organization in western Africa and planned to…