Belarusian authorities say more than half of the country’s voters approved constitutional reforms that would allow its authoritarian leader to stay in power until 2035 and open the way for stronger military co-operation with Russia, while the Belarusian opposition denounced the vote as a sham.Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko casts his ballot in Minsk on Sunday.…Continue Reading
Hundreds of steel bollards have sat unused since construction on Donald Trump’s wall stopped in the Guadalupe Canyon, Arizona. (Adriana Zehbrauskas for The Atlantic)Worth at least a quarter billion dollars, the steel bollards are a relic of the Trump era.Tens of thousands of heavy steel slats, once destined to become part of former President Donald Trump’s…Continue Reading
Good morning.Russia is not showing any signs of easing up its attack on Ukraine. More than 70 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the eastern city of Okhtyrka after a Russian missile strike on a military base, in what is thought to be the biggest loss of life in a single incident in Moscow’s invasion.The…Continue Reading
The world is frighteningly locked in a battle to the death between democracy and authoritarianism. On Sunday Vladimir Putin issued a new threat to the west – telling his defense minister and his top military commander to place Russia’s nuclear forces on alert.It is a new cold war.The biggest difference between the old cold war…Continue Reading
Texas voters are heading to the polls on Tuesday in the first primary contest of the US 2022 midterm elections.The state attorney general, Ken Paxton, a staunch Donald Trump ally who has the former president’s endorsement, is seeking the Republican nomination for a third term in office.Paxton, who has been under indictment since 2015 and…Continue Reading
Fast food workers in California are fighting to pass a first of its kind bill that would provide employees with the power to negotiate wages and possibly improve working condition standards across the industry.The Fast Recovery Act, or AB 257, would create a statewide fast food sector council that would include workers, state regulators, franchises…Continue Reading
In 2017, Alexander Ovechkin, inarguably the best Russian hockey player alive or dead and the country’s most famous male athlete, started something called PutinTeam.“I have never hidden my attitude towards our president, always supporting him,” the Muscovite and captain of the NHL’s Washington Capitals wrote, three years after Russia annexed Crimea. “I am confident that…Continue Reading
Skip to main contentListen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts.Photograph by Leonardo Cendamo / GettyGish Jen joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “Friends,” by Grace Paley, which was published in The New Yorker in 1979. Jen is…Continue Reading
Last Thursday, as Russian tanks and helicopters stormed across the border into Ukraine, European politicians haggled over sanctions propositions, eager to give the impression that they were taking a moral stand—while quietly hoping that no one would notice how little they were willing to risk. Belgium wanted a carve-out for diamonds, Italy for “luxury goods.”…Continue Reading
When Vladimir Putin was a schoolboy, one of his biographers tells us, he spent a lot of time reading the works of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, all of whom regarded economics as the driving force of history, and political forces as secondary. Evidently, the future Russian leader took these lessons to heart. In ordering an…Continue Reading
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