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“This is the big battle”: Jan Schakowsky on abortion in America

The US congresswoman explains how the threat to reproductive rights comes from the same place as the Republicans’ dismissal of…

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Leonid Volkov on how the war in Ukraine has given Russia’s opposition a new chance to shape the country’s future.

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America’s former ambassador to Ukraine on Donald Trump, the 6 January Capitol riot hearings and Russia’s invasion.

By Emily Tamkin

The pre-eminent historian discusses his new book on nuclear disasters, “atoms for peace” and the war in Ukraine.

By Alix Kroeger

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By Jeremy Cliffe

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By Megan Gibson

The Ukrainian-American poet on language, war and art in a time of crisis.

By Emily Tamkin

Andrei Kozyrev explains Vladimir Putin’s cruel rationality and the calculus of the war in Ukraine.

By Emily Tamkin