Pathos and Panic: Russians Are Mobilized for an Undeclared War
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: This essay is anonymous in order to protect the writer from potential reprisals. Russia is not at war, despite what you may have heard. Despite the mobilization of reservists, the stories and images of destruction and death,…
CPAC Hastily Deletes a Pro-Russia Tweet
The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC), Matt Schlapp, delivers the welcome speech at the CPAC conference in Budapest, Hungary, this May.Szilard Koszticsak/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s mostly surprising that it took this long. CPAC has deleted a tweet that…
The Atrocities I Saw Outside Kyiv Hint at Monstrous Discoveries Yet to Be Made
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Bucha was known as Ukraine’s Switzerland. Now it is synonymous with unimaginable horror. I first traveled to the town five years ago to film a documentary about the country’s struggle to build a democracy enshrined in human…
Pelosi Vows Unwavering Support for Ukraine in Unannounced Meeting With Zelenskyy
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on April 30 in Kyiv, Ukraine.The Presidential Office of Ukraine/AP Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday led a congressional delegation in an unannounced visit to…
Pelosi Vows Unwavering Support for Ukraine in Unannounced Meeting With Zelensky
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zlenskyy on April 30 in Kyiv, Ukraine.The Presidential Office of Ukraine/AP Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday led a congressional delegation in an unannounced visit to…
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…