As desirable vacation destinations go, war-torn Ukraine must surely rate low. But in the first month of Russia’s invasion, Airbnb bookings in Ukraine boomed, as people...
As someone who teaches Russian literature, I can’t help but process the world through the country’s novels, stories, poems and plays, even at a time when...
“Oil and gas companies are feeding off humanitarian disaster and consumer suffering in order to reward Wall Street,” said Lukas Ross at Friends of the Earth....
Russian intelligence chief Sergey Beseda and his deputy, Anatoly Bolyukh, were placed under house arrest on March 9. Beseda and Bolyukh oversaw the foreign intelligence branch...
A very real problem vividly illustrated for the rest of us In a new video from Robert Reich, former secretary of labor and accomplished author, an extremely timely, entertaining...
The remarks, though later walked back by the White House, are the most explicit yet from the U.S. president that he sees no future for Putin...
“Instead of hitting the brakes on the decarbonization of the global economy” amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, “now is the time to put the pedal to...
How do things really get done (or more often not) in Washington D.C.? In a new video from Robert Reich, former secretary of labor and accomplished...
“They have moved to a new stage of terror in which they are trying to physically eliminate representatives of legitimate local Ukrainian authorities,” said the Ukrainian...
In addition to protests in Berlin and London, people also took to the streets in occupied Ukrainian cities and in Moscow, despite the threat of arrest....
“We hope that the government will support our amendments which seek to strengthen our ability to hit Russian oligarchs as quickly and effectively as possible,” said...
“We are not part of this conflict, and we have a responsibility to ensure it does not escalate and spread beyond Ukraine,” said NATO Secretary-General Jens...
The West has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by imposing harsh economic sanctions. Most consequentially, key Russian banks have been cut out of the SWIFT...
“Peace is the only way to halt this tragedy,” said the U.N. high commissioner for refugees. The United Nations Refugee Agency said late Wednesday that Russia’s deadly...
Russia’s Defense Ministry announced plans for a bombing campaign in the Ukrainian capital. This is a developing news story… Check back for possible updates… The Russian Defense...
Sergiy Kyslytsya also denounced the Russian president’s decision to put nuclear forces on special alert as “madness.” Amid rapidly escalating fears of global nuclear war, Ukraine’s ambassador to...
More than 5,500 peace advocates have been detained across the country since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war on Ukraine, according to a human rights...
The ICC prosecutor, who is following the invasion “with increasing concern,” signals the court may launch an investigation. Amnesty International declared Friday that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “has been...
“This money belongs to the people of Afghanistan, not to the United States,” said an Afghan protest organizer in Kabul over the weekend. With the people...
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Jan. 19, 2022, that he thinks Russia will invade Ukraine, and cautioned Russian president Vladimir Putin that he “will regret...
Kurt Thigpen clenched his hands around the edge of the table because if he couldn’t feel the sharp edges digging into his palms, he would have...
Better than the blame game: learn and try to help There are many ways, in hindsight, to explain the seemingly sudden collapse of the local, US...