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There will be stories of the end of the Russo-Ukrainian war that will do justice to its wartime leader. Sadly it has yet to be written as not the biography of Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, but as histories of his presidency dominated by a war,...

Air National Guard airmen work clearing leaves and debris from McPherson Square Park in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2025. (Andrew Leyden/Getty Images)

Shocking as this moment is, none of us should pretend we weren’t warned. When Donald Trump installed Pete Hegseth — a television provocateur whose public record is soaked in belligerence, booze, and culture-war performance — as America’s Defense...

The recession of 2008 hit some states earlier than others, and the state we'd moved to seven years before was one of them. Oregon fell on hard times, my husband was laid off and he & I were struggling to juggle part-time jobs with caring for two young...

Trump’s “peace plan” for Ukraine, crafted by Witkoff and Dmitriev, has hit a dead end, The Atlantic reports. Vance bet Kyiv would cave after a corruption scandal, but Zelensky held firm. General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Operational...

Russian forces conducted a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of November 25 and 26. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched two Iskander-M ballistic missiles from Rostov Oblast and 90 Shahed-type,...

"I don't regard Putin as a bad guy." — U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff Rep. Jim Hines (D-CT) has called the latest Witkoff/Rubio kerfuffle a “Goat Rodeo” What does goat rodeo mean? A goat rodeo is a slang term for something going totally,...

Ukraine says it agrees with much of the provisions of the revised peace plan that Europeans have developed. Russia says Ни за что. It seems to me that Ukraine agreeing to limit the size of the armed forces to 800k is not much of a concession since...

Russian forces conducted a series of drone strikes against Ukraine on the night of November 23 to 24. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 162 Shahed-type, Gerbera-type, and other drones – of which roughly 80 were Shahed-type...

By Trenz Pruca (Your faithful chronicler of human folly, political taxonomy, and the occasional well-timed sigh.) If political systems were animals, the modern world would look like an overfunded zoo run by a particularly careless graduate student....