‘Hell on earth’: survivors recount Mariupol's annihilation under Russian bombs |  Free to read  —  Residents who escaped from besieged Ukrainian port depict harrowing conditions for civilians  —  In the besieged city of Mariupol, scene of the heaviest fighting in Russia's three-week war on Ukraine …

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

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.

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 …

On Eve of Confirmation Hearings, G.O.P. Steps Up Attacks on Jackson  —  The White House and Democrats have pushed back hard against new claims that the judge was overly lenient in certain cases, calling them a smear.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

'Why won't Israel give Ukraine weapons?'  Zelensky criticizes Knesset  —  Zelensky praised the Iron Dome as the best missile defense system, asking why Israel was not supplying Ukraine with defensive weapons.  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used his address to MKs and cabinet ministers …

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 …

First look: Lincoln Project sponsors pro-democracy coalition  —  The founders of The Lincoln Project are helping unite over two dozen political groups as “The Union,” aiming to mobilize tens of thousands of volunteers in legal, tech and communications capacities ahead of the midterms and 2024 election, Axios has learned.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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