Julia Ioffe

He was a senior CIA official tasked with getting tough on Russia. Then, one night in Moscow, Marc Polymeropoulos's life changed forever. He says he was hit with a mysterious weapon, joining dozens of American diplomats and spies who believe they’ve been targeted with this secret device all over the world—and even at home, on U.S. soil. Now, as a CIA investigation points the blame at Russia, the victims are left wondering why so little is being done by the Trump administration.

She's been sick for over a month with what doctors long-ago diagnosed as COVID. So why has Julia Ioffe repeatedly tested negative—and what does her search for answers tell us about the faith we invest in a testing system that's trickier than we think?

Americans like to think we believe in democracy and in challenging authoritarianism. But, based on what's happening here and in Eastern Europe, do we still care?

After his news-making primary win against a powerful party old-timer, Jamaal Bowman’s election to Congress is all but assured. But the Justice Democrat isn’t waiting until his arrival in Washington to start pushing from the left. “I am part of The Squad,” he tells GQ.

New data from one of New York's largest coronavirus testing providers suggests things are far from improving. Julia Ioffe on the shape of the pandemic inside what one doctor is calling the "epicenter of the epicenter."

Julia Ioffe on what happens when a president's response makes a crisis worse—and why, from a management perspective, this disaster is beginning to resemble America's tumble into the Depression.

How one young doctor at a Seattle lab tried to get out in front of the coronavirus crisis by inventing his own test. And why the absurdity of his struggle should make us all afraid.

Is Trump flaunting health guidelines to make some tough-guy point? If he is, he's not alone. Julia Ioffe on why in the age of coronavirus, gritty American impulses need to take a backseat to science.

Julia Ioffe on how hollowing out the government has endangered America. 

“Our candidate is chaos,” says a former Putin advisor. Julia Ioffe on what Moscow sees in Bernie Sanders.

The rising-star Democrat talks with Julia Ioffe about the future of the party, the beef between Hillary and Bernie, and his own battles with Mike Bloomberg over stop-and-frisk.

He's done it again. Exactly what you might have expected. Yet somehow, Putin manages to shock us still. 

The White House says the conflict with Iran is about protecting America. How does making the case for war crimes do that?

Julia Ioffe on the president’s grim calculus for risking a war with Iran.

The Republican congressman talks with Julia Ioffe about why he dashed the hopes of Democrats who thought he might join them to impeach Trump. 

And the impeachment inquiry is only making things worse. With new figures and fresh horror stories, Julia Ioffe reports on how the president is politicizing our embassies, alienating our allies, and decimating the ranks of the foreign service.

The rapper is now a small sideshow in the impeachment of the president—which is strange. And meaningful. Julia Ioffe on how the Trump White House has honed the modern art of political diversion.

Julia Ioffe on how the respected Russian scholar got dragged down in the Trump administration.

Julia Ioffe on the making of a decorated U.S. military officer, and the immigrant experience of Soviet Jews.

Julia Ioffe on what it means when the president waxes historical—and the lone upside to all this on-the-job learning.

On a pair of calls this summer, two notorious Russian pranksters fooled the senator into thinking he was working toward a deal with the Turkish defense minister. 

Julia Ioffe explains why the same small country is increasingly involved in America’s political chaos.

GQ’s Julia Ioffe talks with the surging senator about Hillary's trailblazing, Trump's tactics, and Warren’s biggest pitch of all: herself.

She’s dealing with doubters, bigotry, and Bernie believers—and telling us a lot about a changing political landscape in the process.