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LVIV, Ukraine — Before the war there were so many ways to travel in this country. There were sleeper trains that crawled across the country in the dead of night, rocking passengers in bunks before sidling up to stations in new cities as dawn broke. There were express trains that …

UPDATE (4/7): McDonald’s plans to permanently leave Russia after more than 30 years and has started to sell its restaurants. The company said that “continued ownership of the business in Russia is no longer tenable, nor is it consistent with McDonald’s values” due to the “humanitarian crisis” caused by the …

MOSCOW — In that moment, it hit me just how quickly things had gone wrong. Karen Shainyan, my most optimistic friend, whose eyes always reflected confidence and courage, had stayed optimistic on the darkest days—when members of the Chechen LGBT community were rounded up and tortured, when the authorities designated …

Republican politicians and conservative media pundits have been a little confused about how to respond to Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine. The GOP, once known for its hawkishness toward Russia, softened its stance toward the murderous authoritarian as Donald Trump praised him incessantly throughout his time in office. He continued to …

In the ongoing furor over the pilfered data on 50 million Americans taken from Facebook by Cambridge Analytica and weaponized during the 2016 election campaign on behalf of Donald Trump, attention has focused primarily on CA’s slick and fast-talking CEO, Alexander Nix, who’s been suspended from his job over the …

Putin loves you; therefore, you love Putin. The enemy re-tweets you, therefore, you’re in league with the enemy. We’re at war with them, therefore we’re at war with you. One of the first rules of a shunning campaign is that it doesn’t have to make sense. It just has to …

Capitol Hill is still reeling from this week’s bombshell announcement that two senior Trump campaign officials have been indicted and another one has pleaded guilty in the independent investigation into whether there was collusion with Russian officials in the 2016 election. While many Democrats are now clamoring to take legislative …