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Julia Ioffe May 22, 2025
The Trump White House is belatedly recognizing what the foreign policy world has understood for years: Putin has no interest in ending the war in Ukraine until he gets exactly what he wants. And he’s prepared to out-suffer the West to get it.
Christopher Landau
Julia Ioffe May 15, 2025
Once upon a time, not long ago, Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau was a Harvard Law grad and former Scalia clerk who became a D.C. legal bigwig and then ambassador to Mexico. So how did he become the kind of guy welcoming white Afrikaner “refugees” at Dulles?
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Julia Ioffe May 11, 2025
A conversation with scholars, practitioners, and members of the Russian opposition about why Putin—despite sanctions, war, and isolation—keeps surviving and consolidating power.
obama trump
Julia Ioffe May 1, 2025
On questions of war, NATO, Russia, Ukraine, and Asia, the worldviews of the 44th and 47th presidents are more similar than either man would like to admit.


marco rubio
Julia Ioffe April 24, 2025
A draft executive order that would have gutted the State Department turned out to be, in Secretary Marco Rubio’s words, “fake news.” But a reorganization is coming, and no one is quite sure what it means.
Laura Loomer
Julia Ioffe April 10, 2025
Conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer largely took credit for inciting the purge of Trump’s National Security Council, a demonstration of the “services” she is now selling. Former intelligence officers looking for more to the story of General Timothy Haugh’s firing may be missing the point.
Pete Hegseth
Julia Ioffe April 4, 2025
Performing for the cameras as much as for the troops, the former Fox News host has engineered an unprecedented government-funded digital campaign designed to transform the secretary of Defense into a social media star.
JD Vance
Julia Ioffe March 27, 2025
Depending on whom you talk to, J.D. Vance is either a foreign policy naif or an embittered War on Terror vet driven by fear that the West’s foundational civilization is being washed away. The truth may be somewhere in between.


Volodymyr Zelensky
Julia Ioffe March 20, 2025
Trump’s ceasefire team is getting a crash course in Putin’s bad-faith diplomacy. With the slow pace of Europe rearmament, Zelensky can only hope the White House loses patience with Moscow before Ukraine’s stockpiles run out.
Vladimir Putin
Julia Ioffe March 13, 2025
Putin has responded to Washington and Kyiv’s ceasefire proposal by doing what he does best: dragging negotiators into diplomatic purgatory while continuing to fight.
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