Ukraine
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Did Mike Johnson Just Get Religion on Ukraine?
The Speaker’s sudden willingness to bring foreign-aid bills to the House floor risks his Speakership—and Trump’s wrath.
News Desk
How Will Putin Respond to the Terrorist Attack in Moscow?
The Russian President has a long history of spinning lapses in security for his own political gain.
The Weekend Essay
Has Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Improved His Standing in Russia?
As Russians go to the polls, the economy is booming and the public feels hopeful about the future. But the politics of Putinism still depend on the absence of any means to challenge it.
The Political Scene Podcast
How Gaza, Ukraine, and TikTok Are Influencing the Election
“Donald Trump’s vision, or lack of vision, of what the United States can be in the world is a risk of a kind we really haven’t had in any of our lifetimes,” Evan Osnos says.
The New Yorker Documentary
A Ukrainian TikTok Influencer Shares Her Life as a Refugee in “Following Valeria”
Nicola Fegg’s short documentary follows a young woman who becomes a social-media star during the war in Ukraine.
News Desk
The New Yorker’s Luke Mogelson and Masha Gessen Win Polk Awards
Mogelson received the Magazine Reporting prize for his work in the trenches in Ukraine, and Gessen was honored for their commentary on historical memory and the Israel-Hamas war.
Essay
Can Ukraine Still Win?
As Congress continues to delay aid and Volodymyr Zelensky replaces his top commander, military experts debate the possible outcomes.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
The Great Washington Meltdown of 2024 Has Begun
In the Senate, the House, and the White House, leaders are weak—at a time when leading is needed.
Annals of War
Was an Antiwar Russian Tricked Into Carrying Out an Assassination Plot?
Darya Trepova admits that a network of handlers in Ukraine recruited her to hand an explosive device to a far-right propagandist in St. Petersburg—but, she says, they never told her it was a bomb.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
The Senate’s False Hope of a Grand Bargain Meets Its Trumpy Demise
Whether folly, hubris, or denial, it was always going to end this way.
News Desk
What Could Tip the Balance in the War in Ukraine?
In 2024, the most decisive fight may also be the least visible: Russia and Ukraine will spend the next twelve months in a race to reconstitute and resupply their forces.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
A Congressional Christmas Gift to Putin
Biden’s signature support for Ukraine goes from “as long as it takes” to “as long as we can.”
2023 in Review
The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2023
The articles that sustained the longest hold on readers during a year when many avoided the news.
The Weekend Essay
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today.
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Letter from Biden’s Washington
The Capital Has a Bad Case of Year-End Panic
Worries about a second Trump term and the end of aid to Ukraine are entirely justified.
Q. & A.
Should U.S. Aid to Israel Be Contingent on Human Rights?
Senator Ben Cardin, the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, argues that humanitarian concerns should not hold up funding for Israel’s war effort.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
Not All of America’s National-Security Threats Are Overseas
Congress’s foreign-aid follies with Israel and Ukraine, and the fear of Trump in 2024.
Letter from Biden’s Washington
The Week When Biden Hugged Bibi
The President, fresh off a grim trip to the Middle East, makes the case for funding Israel’s war—and Ukraine’s, too.
Persons of Interest
A Russian Journalist’s Pained Love for Her Country
In a new book, Elena Kostyuchenko attempts to work through how she missed—or, rather, failed to adequately react to—Russia’s descent into fascism.
Q. & A.
Should the West Threaten the Putin Regime Over Ukraine?
The historian Stephen Kotkin on the state of the war and the dangers of a Russian Tet Offensive.