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Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your daily political newsletter from the wildlands of Washington, D.C. brought to you by the ladies of Puck—Tara Palmeri, Tina Nguyen, and yours truly—with the occasional cameo from our very own Peter Hamby.
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Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your daily political newsletter from the wildlands of Washington, D.C. brought to you by the ladies of Puck—Tara Palmeri, Tina Nguyen, and yours truly—with the occasional cameo from our very own Peter Hamby. (Peter also hosts our amazing podcast The Powers That Be.)

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The Putin Poison Pill
The Putin Poison Pill
As the war in Ukraine grinds on, pressure is building on all sides for the Biden administration to begin negotiations with the Russians, if only to prove what everyone inside the White House, State Department, and Pentagon already knows: the Russians have absolutely zero interest in negotiating.
Dylan Byers JULIA IOFFE
There comes a moment that can pierce even the muddy, bloody monotony of 21st century trench warfare and capture what nearly a year of war has meant for the Ukrainian people. On Saturday, a Russian cruise missile landed on a residential highrise in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The missile took out an entire nine-story entryway of the building, on the Victory Embankment, leaving a giant hole in the middle and killing—as of this writing—at least 45 people, one of the deadliest attacks on Ukrainian civilians in this horrific war.

The stories that came out of that building were like something off of a grotesque New Yorker cover, or a modern Bosch painting. On one floor there was a 24-year-old woman, who had somehow survived in her bedroom on a middle floor, while her parents and cat disappeared with their...

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