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Puck’s daily political newsletter from Washington—featuring Leigh Ann Caldwell, Peter Hamby, Marianna Sotomayor, Julia Ioffe, John Heilemann, and Abby Livingston—on what’s really happening in this town, from the White House to the Pentagon to Capitol Hill, K Street, the campaign trail, and beyond.
THE LATEST ARTICLES
Julia Ioffe
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December 6, 2022
Putin’s Shadow Fleet
The West’s blunt new economic policy, designed to starve the Russian petrostate of its lifeblood, could be the end of the global oil market as we know it. The battle of wills is just beginning.
Julia Ioffe
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November 30, 2022
Inside Putin’s War of Attrition
Munitions are running low on both sides of the Ukraine conflict as military suppliers race to keep pace with Russia’s furious, WWI-like shelling. The artillery-heavy strategy is forcing the Pentagon to rethink its very notion of modern war.
Julia Ioffe
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November 23, 2022
Biden’s Price of Peace
Strategic differences between the Pentagon and the White House over the war in Ukraine illuminate the paradox of its endgame: How do you negotiate a peace that neither side can afford to win?
Julia Ioffe
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November 16, 2022
Putin’s Retreat & Kyiv’s Dangerous Hope
If there had been hope in Washington that the capture of Kherson would allow the Ukrainians to return to the negotiating table from a position of strength, that seems unrealistic now. From the Ukrainian vantage point, after all, what would they have to gain, when they still have so much to lose?
Julia Ioffe
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November 9, 2022
How Russia’s Kardashian Came in the from the Cold
The curious case of Ksenia Sobchak illustrates a profound truth about modern Russia, a society where Moscow’s elite are always playing a game of musical chairs for favor, status, wealth, and their very survival. In the context of an imperial war gone terribly wrong, the stakes have never been higher.
Julia Ioffe
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November 1, 2022
The Party of Marjorie Taylor Greene
A bracing conversation with Robert Draper, the “Weapons of Mass Delusion” author and longtime Trumpworld chronicler, about the rise of the far right, McCarthy’s next moves, and the dawn of the M.T.G. era.
Julia Ioffe
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October 25, 2022
The Moscow-Tehran Axis of Evil
An illuminating conversation with Jason Rezaian, the Iranian-American journalist and former hostage of the Rouhani regime, about the hijab revolution, the response in Bidenworld, and the deepening alliance between Tehran and the Kremlin.
Julia Ioffe
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October 18, 2022
Putin’s New Tools of Terror
Russia, which sees itself as an unjustly deposed military superpower reclaiming its rightful place on the world stage, views Iran as a small regional power that can be used as it sees fit. Ironic, then, that Russia has turned to a junior partner for basic weapons as it runs out of its own.
Julia Ioffe
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October 12, 2022
“General Armageddon” & Putin’s Bridge to Nowhere
The strategic and psychological impact of the latest dark turn in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Julia Ioffe
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October 4, 2022
Putin’s Shadow Recruits
Ramzan Kadyrov has long ruled Chechnya with the aid of Kremlin money and firepower. But if the war in Ukraine is putting some cracks in Putin’s image, it hasn’t spared his viceroy, either.