The January 6 Committee sent a letter to Ivanka Trump asking her to testify. It’s eight pages, with snippets from documents and testimony they have. But there’s more than that to it. There are any number of juicy quotes, although most of them have shown...
Author: Cheryl Rofer
Swedish fighter jet and a Russian landing craft in the Baltic Sea. Swedish Defense Forces via Helsingin Sanomat. As Russia threatens Ukraine and intervenes in Kazakhstan, its other neighbors are.
Nobody knows. End of blogpost. Or I could go on. I follow a great many Russia experts on Twitter, and they don’t know. Some tilt one way or the other,.
I made a sorta New Year’s resolution to post about stuff other than covid, but covid takes up a lot of everyone’s mental space, and I am particularly angry about this latest surge. Maybe the next post will be about Russia. This morning, one of...
Kevin Drum offers some suggestions as a conversation starter on “living with covid.” Far too many people using that phrase actually mean “Shut up and sit down because I’m tired.
Demonstrations in western Kazakhstan, the oil-producing region, against a sharp increase in the price of automotive fuel, have spread across the country to the former capital, Almaty, and the current.
Here’s some good news to start the year! The P5 – the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, all of which have nuclear weapons – have released a statement against nuclear war. France, the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation, the United...
Over the last few days, I have thought of at least six posts I might write on the pandemic and started three of them, now trashed by events. I am.
If you, like me, are puzzled by the wide variety of mask manufacturers you’ve never heard of and have also heard that not all masks being sold as N95s actually.
Russia has released a text of a proposed treaty with NATO for security assurances in Europe. It’s short. It’s also not going to happen. The short version is that Vladimir Putin, as he has been saying, wants a sphere of influence in which smaller countries...
With so many people still contracting covid, filling up the hospitals, the fourth wave now, and vaccinations too, we must be getting to a point where there will be no.
My colleague at Balloon Juice, Adam Silverman, makes an excellent observation: This contempt hearing is not just intended to hold Meadows in contempt, it is intended to disturb the network.