Security Alert  —  Event: According to media sources, there have been threats of attacks against shopping centers, railway and metro stations, and other public gathering places in major urban areas, including Moscow and St. Petersburg as well as in areas of heightened tension along the Russian border with Ukraine.

Alexander Gabuev writes from Moscow on why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war  —  Elites have hijacked Russia and conflated the country's interests with their own  —  ANYWHERE YOU turn in Moscow, it's easy to find members of the Russian elite who wonder why the West thinks that war …

Vast Leak Exposes How Credit Suisse Served Strongmen and Spies  —  Leaked data on more than 18,000 accounts shows that the Swiss bank missed or ignored red flags.  —  The client rosters of Swiss banks are among the world's most closely guarded secrets, protecting the identities …

The C.D.C. Isn't Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects  —  The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.  —  For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations …

Russian generals pray for peace at burial sites of Chabad rebbes  —  15 Russian military men arrived to pray after hearing all prayers are answered at a Jewish cemetery in the small town of Lyubavichi.  —  Some 15 Russian generals prayed for peace last week at the Jewish cemetery in Lyubavichi …

The President of the Republic spoke with the President of the United States, Mr. Joe BIDEN and the President of the Russian Federation, Mr. Vladimir PUTIN.  —  He proposed a summit to be held between President BIDEN and President PUTIN and then with relevant stakeholders to discuss security and strategic stability in Europe.

The Atlantic published 10X more articles lamenting school Covid protocols than it did on the sunsetting of a Tax Credit that threw 3.7M children back into poverty.  —  Despite their constant consternation over covid protocols and their effects on “the children”, The Atlantic has a limited framework for what harms to children matter.

Florida governor: school districts that defied no-mask mandate to lose $200m  —  Ron DeSantis is backing a bill that would strip education funding from Democratic counties that retained Covid precautions  —  Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, is backing a controversial proposal …

POLITICO Playbook: Harris declares ‘unity,’ while Zelenskyy accuses ‘appeasement’  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  DIVISIONS BETWEEN U.S. AND UKRAINE — At the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY delivered a speech peppered with criticism about the West's response …

Republicans wince at Wisconsin GOP crack-up  —  MILWAUKEE — Timothy Ramthun's entry into Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary last weekend was the car wreck no one could look away from.  —  His campaign is built around the preposterous idea the 2020 election could still be overturned …

Can Nancy Mace overcome the Trump factor in SC's GOP primary  —  Tonight Nancy Mace is not on TV.  —  The South Carolina congresswoman is back home, sitting on the gray plush sectional in her living room, sipping Trader Joe's sparkling red wine from a simple stemless glass.