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Illustration by Tyler Comrie The New Propaganda War
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world.
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Photo-illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Sources: Sefa Karacan / … Clash of the Patriarchs
A hard-line Russian bishop backed by the political might of the Kremlin could split the Orthodox Church in two.
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William Keo / Magnum A Looming Disaster at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
At the facility, occupied by Russia for the past two years, employees describe a regime of torture and abuse—and a growing threat of disaster.
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Photograph by Greg Kahn for The Atlantic The Woman Fighting Russia’s Carceral State
Evgenia Kara-Murza has traveled the world to speak out about her husband’s imprisonment and to advocate for the Kremlin’s countless other political prisoners.
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Tyler Hicks / The New York Times / … The War Is Not Here to Entertain You
The war in Ukraine is reaching a crucial moment. Will it recapture the world’s flagging attention?
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Royal Navy Official Photographer / Imperial War Museums … Radio Atlantic: This Is Not Your Parents’ Cold War
It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues. How should we be thinking about what comes next?
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Getty; The Atlantic Sudden Russian Death Syndrome
It’s not a great time to be an oligarch who’s unenthusiastic about Putin’s war in Ukraine.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty How China Is Using Vladimir Putin
Xi Jinping said his country and Putin’s Russia are friends with “no limits.” The reality is more complicated.
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Maxim Dondyuk The End of the New Peace
Vladimir Putin is pushing humanity toward an era of war that might be worse than anything we have seen before. It could threaten the very survival of our species.
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Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty How Politics Compounded a Hostage Family’s Grief
This week, Paul Whelan’s sister watched as politicians and pundits weaponized the imprisoned American’s plight.
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Barneo AG Arctic Adventurers Have a Russia Problem
The war has made it very hard to build a floating-ice camp.
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Metin Aktas / Anadolu Agency / Getty Russia’s Vindictive Rage
Ukraine is winning, but at a high cost in reprisals on civilians.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters What Really Caused the Missile Explosion in Poland
The disturbing incident was the direct consequence of Russian aggression.
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Danielle Del Plato The Russian Empire Must Die
A better future requires Putin’s defeat—and the end to imperial aspirations.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The New Stalin Era
For the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, the Kremlin today is taking the country back to the authoritarian nightmare of the past.
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Wojtek Laski / Getty When the Soviets Voted
Americans could learn something from the care that people of the U.S.S.R. took with a privilege they would hold only briefly.
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NASA The Russian Space Program Is Falling Back to Earth
The storied space superpower was already stalling. Then came the Ukraine war.
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Getty / The Atlantic Biden’s Loose Lips Make the Nuclear Threat Worse
The president’s rhetoric will encourage Putin to test American resolve.
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Serhii Mykhalchuk / AFP / Getty Russia Just Showed Why It’s Floundering in Ukraine
Indiscriminate violence reveals Putin’s powerlessness to overcome Ukrainian resistance.
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AFP / Getty Putin’s Regime Faces the Fate of His Kerch Strait Bridge
The attack on the crucial link between Russia and Crimea matters less for its tactical significance and more for what it says about the course of the war.
