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Illustration by Tyler Comrie The New Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.
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Photo-illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Sources: Sefa Karacan / … Clash of the Patriarchs
A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two.
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Photograph by Greg Kahn for The Atlantic The Woman Fighting Russia’s Carceral State
Evgenia Kara-Murza has traveled the world to speak out about her husband’s imprisonment and to advocate for the Kremlin’s countless other political prisoners.
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Danish Defence Command / Forsvaret Ritzau Scanpix / … The Most Consequential Act of Sabotage in Modern Times
The destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline curtailed Europe’s reliance on Russian gas. But who was responsible?
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Royal Navy Official Photographer / Imperial War Museums … Radio Atlantic: This Is Not Your Parents’ Cold War
It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues. How should we be thinking about what comes next?
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Getty; The Atlantic Sudden Russian Death Syndrome
It’s not a great time to be an oligarch who’s unenthusiastic about Putin’s war in Ukraine.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty How China Is Using Vladimir Putin
Xi Jinping said his country and Putin’s Russia are friends with “no limits.” The reality is more complicated.
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Sergei Bobylyov / Sputnik / AFP / Getty What Trump and Musk Don’t Get About Russia’s Nuclear Threats
Putin’s hollow rhetoric warrants no concessions from the West.
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Maxim Dondyuk The End of the New Peace
Vladimir Putin is pushing humanity toward an era of war that might be worse than anything we have seen before. It could threaten the very survival of our species.
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Danielle Del Plato The Russian Empire Must Die
A better future requires Putin’s defeat—and the end to imperial aspirations.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The New Stalin Era
For the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the Kremlin today is taking the country back to the authoritarian nightmare of the past.
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Getty; The Atlantic Putin’s Doomsday Scenario
The West cannot assume that the Russian leader will be a rational actor on nukes if he sees his nation and regime under existential threat.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The Nukes Never Went Away
We just forgot to fear them.
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Antonio Masiello / Getty; The Atlantic Will Putin Use Nuclear Weapons? Watch These Indicators.
I asked several experts to share the indicators they’re tracking most closely to determine whether Russian nuclear use in Ukraine is imminent—and to help us all separate the signal from the noise.
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AFP / Getty Putin’s Regime Faces the Fate of His Kerch Strait Bridge
The attack on the crucial link between Russia and Crimea matters less for its tactical significance and more for what it says about the course of the war.
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illustration by Vartika Sharma. Sources: Universal History Archive … Why Putin Made Peace With the Soviets’ Archenemies
Revisiting Russia’s brutal civil war
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Gavriil Grigorov / Sputnik / AP Russia’s Nuclear Bluster Is a Sign of Panic
Yielding to Putin’s blackmail would be folly.
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Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Trump, Putin, and the Assault of Anarchy
We must refuse to get used to it all.
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Getty Putin in the Bunker
The Russian president against the world
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Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Putin’s Newest Annexation Is Dire for Russia Too
His baldly illegitimate claim to four Ukrainian provinces shows contempt for the global order—and his own subjects.
