• Join Puck

    Directly Supporting Authors

    A new economic model in which writers are also partners in the business.

    Personalized Subscriptions

    Customize your settings to receive the newsletters you want from the authors you follow.

    Stay in the Know

    Connect directly with Puck talent through email and exclusive events.

  • What is puck? Newsletters Authors Podcasts Events Gift Puck Careers

Julia Ioffe

One of America’s foremost voices on Russia-U.S. relations, covering national security, foreign relations, and domestic politics from Washington and Europe.

THE LATEST ARTICLES
NEWSLETTERS
Administration officials say that Moscow appears to be in absolutely no mood to negotiate.
Julia Ioffe • May 3, 2023
Inside the Gershkovich Prisoner Swap Crisis
Despite Biden’s public commitment to bring Evan home, the people tasked with making it happen worry privately that Moscow hasn’t made clear what it wants in return for his freedom.
The Kremlin media is rending its clothes for Carlson.
Julia Ioffe • April 26, 2023
“Dear Tucker”: Kremlin TV Pours One Out for Carlson
In the days since he was fired from Fox News, Carlson has been hailed as a hero and a truth-teller in Russian state media—a testament to his utility in Putin’s wartime campaign.
General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Julia Ioffe • April 26, 2023
The Milley Doctrine
Onboard a flight to Ramstein Air Base, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs shares his “realist” view of war in Ukraine, Russia’s military failures, and the challenges still to come.
The emerging consensus seems to be that Airman Jack Teixeira’s leak, while plenty damaging, could have been far worse.
Julia Ioffe • April 18, 2023
Intelligence Gossip & A Leak Postmortem
Two weeks after a stunning and embarrassing intelligence breach, official Washington is finally coming to terms with the reality of what got out, what might follow, and why this keeps happening.
Virginia Senator Mark Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and seasoned veteran on issues of national security.
Julia Ioffe • April 11, 2023
Mark Warner’s Anti-TikTok Algorithm
A candid conversation with the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Ukraine leak, his proposed social media legislation, Putin, Xi, and Elon Musk.
This morning, a Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
Julia Ioffe • March 30, 2023
The Abduction of Evan Gershkovich
There is something uniquely stomach-turning about the arrest of Gershkovich, a journalist and U.S. citizen of Soviet Jewish extraction—a provocation without precedent since 1986. It’s not just that Russia is “banking hostages,” a common F.S.B. tactic. It’s that Putin is out for revenge.
It turns out that Washington’s foreign policy set has grown increasingly frustrated with the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy.
Julia Ioffe • March 28, 2023
Biden’s Private Ukraine Deadline
The D.C. foreign policy establishment is growing restless as the Biden White House resists calls to articulate a more specific strategy if Ukraine fails to make significant gains by the fall.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during the signing ceremony at the Grand Kremlin Palace.
Julia Ioffe • March 22, 2023
Xi Jinping, Superstar
An ecstatic reception for the Chinese president in Moscow revealed the dearth of diplomatic and military options before Russia, and just how few friends Vladimir Putin has left.
Kremlin state media has been elated at Ron DeSantis’s statement on Ukraine.
Julia Ioffe • March 14, 2023
Putin’s Boy from Tallahassee
In the zero-sum world of rightward Republicanism, politicians are using a yearning to confront China as a veil to abandon Ukraine.
Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, imprisoned since January 2021, is the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary ’Navalny.’
Julia Ioffe • March 7, 2023
Surviving Putin
A gripping conversation with Christo Grozev, lead Russia investigator for Bellingcat, about his role in the Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Navalny,’ sleeper agents in Europe, and why he can’t go home again.
1 … 13 14 15 16 17 … 25