Replacements Come for Some Exhausted Chernobyl Workers  —  Here are the latest developments in Ukraine.  —  Firing rockets and bombs from the land, air and sea, Russian forces continued to bombard the besieged coastal city of Mariupol on Sunday and were also deporting thousands of residents …

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 19  —  Frederick W. Kagan, George Barros, and Kateryna Stepanenko  —  March 19, 3 pm ET  —  Ukrainian forces have defeated the initial Russian campaign of this war.  That campaign aimed to conduct airborne and mechanized operations to seize Kyiv …

Who's Unhappy With Schools?  The Answer Surprised Me.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Tucked into a New Yorker article by Jill Lepore about the spate of school board fights over just about everything was a statistic that caught my eye.  Despite all the ink spilled lately …

The Senate's Supreme Court peacekeeper prepares for his moment  —  Dick Durbin is a patient senator.  And his restraint will be tested during this week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.  —  Republicans telegraphed for weeks that they wouldn't put …

How the GOP's dirtiest slur got a new life  —  In speeches, ads and on social media, it is fast becoming the defining smear of the 2022 primary campaign season: RINO.  —  The acronym — short for ‘Republican-In-Name-Only’ — is hardly new.  But former President Donald Trump's frequent use …

Pentagon's Work With Ukraine's Biological Facilities Becomes Flashpoint in Russia's Information War  —  Moscow falsely accuses U.S. of funding biowarfare in Ukraine despite Kremlin once benefiting from Pentagon program  —  On his first official visit abroad, the new senator from Illinois …

The Russians Fleeing Putin's Wartime Crackdown  —  Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster it vanishes. … In the world as it existed before Russia invaded Ukraine, on February 24th …

War in Ukraine: Anti-war opinions can cost Russians their jobs  —  For 28-year-old geography teacher Kamran Manafly, it all began with an Instagram post.  —  “I don't want to be a reflection of state propaganda,” he wrote on the social media site, just a few days before it was restricted in Russia.

Fierce fighting engulfs Mariupol as Russian forces tighten grip on devastated city  —  Kyiv and western allies sceptical of Moscow's motives for engaging in peace talks  —  Fierce fighting engulfed Mariupol on Sunday as Russian forces tightened their grip on the besieged Ukrainian city …

America has a New York Times-doesn't-get-the-First Amendment problem  —  It may be the most classic bit during the nine-season run of the iconic TV sitcom Seinfeld: The time that Jerry shows up at the airport car rental place with his reservation, only to be told there aren't any cars.

Russia's war for Ukraine could be headed toward stalemate … Russia's attempt to conquer Ukraine could be headed to a stalemate as heavy casualties and equipment losses take a toll on unprepared Russian forces that have failed so far to achieve any of their initial objectives, Western officials and military experts say.

New Details Flesh Out How Project Veritas Acquired Ashley Biden's Diary  —  The right-wing group placed a deceptive call to the president's daughter a month before Election Day, weeks after her stolen diary was shown around at a Trump fund-raiser.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

No entry: Ukrainian Americans struggle to get fleeing relatives into United States  —  Every morning and every night, from her home in Falls Church, Va., Nadiia Khomaziuk messages her sister Lidiia in her hideaway in western Ukraine.  —  Is Lidiia still okay?  How about her kids, who are 7 and 11?

Demand for This Toad's Psychedelic Venom Is Booming.  Some Warn That's Bad for the Toad.  —  In a sign of unintended consequences of the psychedelic resurgence, scientists say that the Sonoran desert toad is at risk of population collapse.  — Give this article- - - Read in app