Preparing for Defeat  —  I'm writing this from Skopje, North Macedonia, where I've been for the last week teaching one of our Leadership Academy for Development courses.  Following the Ukraine war is no different here in terms of available information, except that I'm in an adjacent time zone …

The Weakness of the Despot  —  An expert on Stalin discusses Putin, Russia, and the West.  —  Stephen Kotkin is one of our most profound and prodigious scholars of Russian history.  His masterwork is a biography of Josef Stalin.  So far he has published two volumes—"Paradoxes of Power …

Bennett advises Zelensky to surrender to Russia, Zelensky refuses  —  Vladimir Putin made an offer to end the Russian war with Ukraine, but the offer includes many Ukrainian sacrifices.  —  Prime Minister Naftali Bennett told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy that he recommends Ukraine …

Putin's pre-war moves against U.S. tech giants laid groundwork for crackdown on free expression … Russian agents came to the home of Google's top executive in Moscow to deliver a frightening ultimatum last September: take down an app that had drawn the ire of Russian President Vladimir Putin within 24 hours or be taken to prison.

American Voters Now View Ukraine as Favorably as France, Germany and Japan  —  American voters' perceived friends and adversaries  —  As recently as a year ago, many Americans did not know what to make of Ukraine — if they knew anything about it at all.  One-third of voters couldn't say whether …

Russia threatens to attack western weapons shipments to Ukraine  —  Warning raises risk of direct confrontation between Moscow and Nato  —  Russia has warned that it will fire on western armaments shipments to Kyiv, raising the risk of a direct military confrontation between Moscow and Nato during the war in Ukraine.

House Democrats Push Biden to Build a Better Midterm Message  —  House Democrats have been pressing the president to come up with a bumper-sticker-worthy slogan.  The White House says it's sharpening its message.  —  WASHINGTON — After offering her customary lavish praise of President Biden …

Texas Court Halts Abuse Inquiries Into Parents of Transgender Children  —  A judge said the governor's order to consider medically accepted treatments for transgender youth as abuse had been improperly adopted and violated the State Constitution.  —  HOUSTON — Investigations of parents …

A Trump vs. Kemp proxy war deepens in Georgia after new endorsement  —  Donald Trump dipped deep down into Georgia's ballot to endorse a little-known GOP candidate for insurance commissioner who only entered the race against an incumbent backed by Gov. Brian Kemp this week.

Using a New Cyber Tool, Westerners Have Been Texting Russians About the War in Ukraine  —  Website developed by hackers is new initiative in West's battle to counter Russia's propaganda campaign  —  People around the world are using a new website to circumvent the Kremlin's propaganda machine …

Kinzinger: My ‘biggest regret’ was voting against first Trump impeachment  —  Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) on Friday expressed regret for failing to vote to impeach former President Trump the first time over his dealings with Ukraine in light of the recent Russian invasion.

The questions about the biolabs in Ukraine that everyone should be asking  —  There is an important story here, it's why the government is lying about it  —  Tucker: The Pentagon's Ukraine biolab talking points are an utter lie  —  Wednesday, we told you that the Biden administration …

American Officials Believe They Have Located Putin's Yacht  —  They say they have indications that the $700 million, 459-foot yacht, which is in dry dock in Italy, is associated with the Russian president, backing an earlier claim by a former crew member.  —  WASHINGTON — American officials …

Oleg Deripaska hints at legal action over UK's brutal sanctions on Russian oligarchs as he claims there is ‘not a single fact’ to support them  — Oleg Deripaska suggested UK's sanctioning of oligarchs may lead to court action  — He claimed there is ‘not a single fact in support’ of the crippling set of sanctions

Yacht justice: A new front in the war drags Russia's oligarchs into the spotlight … From the hillsides above Barcelona, the superyacht looked like a building.  The titanic vessel, christened Dilbar in 2016, was often docked at Port Vell, dwarfing the Barcelona aquarium next door …

U.S. explores sending Ukraine more advanced weapons after scuttling Polish jet deal  —  The Biden administration, under pressure to expand the arsenal of weapons that Ukraine has in its conflict with Russia, is working with European allies to expedite more sophisticated air-defense systems …

Roman Abramovich U.S. Hedge Fund Investments Are Frozen  —  Hedge funds told to freeze Russian oligarch's assets after he was sanctioned by the British government  —  A number of U.S. hedge-fund firms that have investments from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich have been told to freeze …

The Things I'm Afraid to Write About  —  Fear of professional exile has kept me from taking on certain topics.  What gets lost when a writer mutes herself?  —  One evening, I sat on the brown-leather couch of a younger man who admired me for my writing, and maybe other things, if the salty text messages were true.

Yes, voters ‘deserve to know’ this GOP plan would raise taxes by $1 trillion  —  Suppose, for a moment, that the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the group overseeing the 2022 campaigns of all Democratic senators and Senate candidates, announced that Democrats …

Russia concentrates military power for Kyiv assault  —  The operative lull in the battle for Kyiv over the last few days seems to be running to its end.  —  New indications suggest Russia is getting ready to relaunch a massive offensive in the region, the war's main goal.

Trump to rally in South Carolina, taking aim at two House Republicans  —  Former president holding a rally on Saturday in Florence, South Carolina  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for March 11  —  On the eve of his Saturday evening rally in Florence, South Carolina, former President Donald Trump …

Esther Byrd, QAnon-adjacent defender of Jan. 6 insurrection, appointed to Florida Board of Education … A.G. Gancarski  —  A.G. Gancarski has been a correspondent for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014.  In 2018, he was a finalist for an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies “best political column.”

Barr warns China is ‘biggest threat’ to US, warns of ‘highly aggressive’ tech plan  —  China aiming ‘to take control of all of the key technologies of the future, such as 5G communications, robotics, artificial intelligence,’ Barr says  —  Bill Barr hits the media for pushing the ‘lie’ of Russian collusion: ‘A feeding frenzy’