Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson  —  On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a request: Use more Tucker Carlson.

Brent Renaud, an American Journalist, Is Killed in Ukraine  —  Brent Renaud, an award-winning American filmmaker and journalist, was killed in Ukraine on Sunday while reporting in a suburb of the capital, Kyiv, according to Ukraine's Interior Ministry.  —  Mr. Renaud, 50, had worked …

US claims Russia has asked China for military help in invasion of Ukraine  —  White House fears move is sign of increasingly close ties between Beijing and Moscow  —  Russia has asked China for military equipment to support its invasion of Ukraine, according to US officials …

TV coverage amplifies the GOP's false claims about gas prices  —  Unsurprisingly, the most egregious examples of the media regurgitating right-wing talking points on gas prices often come from Fox News.  White House reporter Peter Doocy has parroted oil industry talking points at White House briefings …

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russian strike on military site near Poland kills at least 35, injures 134  —  Ukrainian officials say an American journalist was shot and killed while reporting on the outskirts of Kyiv, where there has been heavy fighting.

‘His act is wearing thin’: North Carolina Republicans gripe about Madison Cawthorn  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn is stumbling at home and abroad as his bid to play Republican kingmaker falls flat with voters and alienates colleagues.  —  The 26-year-old, first-term North Carolina Republican saw …

Trump Says He ‘May Have To’ Run in 2024 During Rambling, Lie-Filled South Carolina Rally Speech  —  “In 2024 we are going to take back that beautiful, beautiful White House,” the former president said.  “I wonder who will do that.  I wonder.  I wonder.”  —  Donald Trump didn't even speak …

Orwell Was Right  —  From free speech to “spheres of influence” to our passion for endless war, we've become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted  —  This weekend I re-read 1984, a book I tend to reach for when I get Defcon-1 depressed about the state of the world.

On Russia, Trump's greatest Republican allies drastically misread the signs  —  In late January, as Russia's troops amassed along Ukraine's borders, many of the GOP's most Trump-friendly figures preached caution over confrontation.  According to Axios' reporting, the GOP's up-and-comers feared they would …

Missiles target US consulate in north Iraq, no casualties  —  BAGHDAD (AP) — As many as 12 missiles were fired Sunday toward the U.S. consulate in Iraq's northern city of Irbil, Iraqi security officials said.  A U.S. defense official said missiles had been launched at the city from neighboring Iran.

Could Putin actually fall?  —  What history teaches us about how autocrats lose power — and how Putin might hang on.  —  As Russia's war in Ukraine looks increasingly disastrous, speculation has mounted that President Vladimir Putin's misstep could prove to be his downfall.

Democrats' Hispanic peril  —  Top Democratic operatives see expanding defections by Hispanic voters to the GOP, worsening Democrats' outlook for November's midterms. … But new polling shows it accelerating, worrying party strategists about the top of the ticket in 2024.

Fox News host: ‘If I was Zelenskyy right now, I would think, I wish Trump was in charge’  —  Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday asserted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would rather be fighting a war while Donald Trump was president even though the former American leader …

The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers  —  Some are exquisite condemnations from learned and accomplished men who escaped their enslavement.  Some are brief queries, shots in the dark, dictated by illiterate women.

At Least 35 Reported Dead, More Than 100 Injured in Base Attack  —  More than 100 were injured after missiles hit a base used to ferry weapons and train foreign fighters.  Russia had warned that arms shipments were “legitimate targets.”  —  Russia's air assault on a Ukrainian base brings the war closer to the Polish border.