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Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Getty The Russian Invasion Touches Outer Space
The long-held idea that earthly conflict can’t tarnish something as lofty as space travel is only a platitude, not a certainty.
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Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg / Getty Who is Vladimir Putin’s Revisionist History For?
Nationalist leaders often weaponize the past to justify their present aims. But the Russian president’s narrative appears to be directed at an audience of one.
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Daniel Leal / AFP / Getty Calamity Again
No nation is forced to repeat its past. But something familiar is taking place in Ukraine.
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Chris McGrath / Getty The Russian Incursion No One Is Talking About
While the world watches Ukraine, Moscow is making moves in neighboring Belarus, too.
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Alexey Nikolsky / Sputnik / AFP Putin Chooses a Forever War
His partition of Ukraine is an attack on global peace.
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Sasha Mordovets / Getty Vladimir Putin’s Hall of Mirrors
The Russian president sees the world through the lens of maskirovka and provokatsiia.
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Associated Press Why the West’s Diplomacy With Russia Keeps Failing
American and European leaders’ profound lack of imagination has brought the world to the brink of war.
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Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty The U.S. Is Naive About Russia. Ukraine Can’t Afford to Be.
Putin is right about one thing: A free, prosperous, democratic neighbor is a threat to his autocratic regime.
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Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine Is Backfiring
Putin’s military moves are rallying Ukrainians and unifying NATO.
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Getty; The Atlantic Falsifying Russia’s History Is a Step Toward More Violence
By attacking the past, Putin and his supporters are also attacking the future.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty It Wasn’t a Hoax
People with scant illusions about Trump are volunteering to help him execute one of his Big Lies.
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Illustration by Oliver Munday. Sources: Sven Creutzmann / … The Bad Guys Are Winning
If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse.
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Karen Minasyan / AFP / Getty Russia Took Advantage While the West Slept
By failing to offer realistic alternatives, the U.S. and Europe have left another region to the tender mercies of a predatory power.
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Illustration by Celina Pereira; BStU; Ulrich Hässler / … A KGB Man to the End
The origins of Putin’s worldview—and the rise of Russia’s new ruling class
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Andrew Harnik / AP Is OAN the Leading Edge of Russian Misinformation?
The Biden campaign says Trump’s favorite TV network is peddling the Kremlin’s lies.
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Mikhail Svetlov / Joe Raedle / Drew Angerer … The Russian Trolls’ Next Favorite Candidate
Americans don’t need Russia’s polarizing influence operations. They are plenty good enough at dividing themselves.
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KRIVONISCHENKO'S CAMERA / ARSH RAZIUDDIN / THE ATLANTIC The Russian Conspiracy Theory That Won’t Die
A decades-old mystery surrounding the death of nine skiers has spawned a raft of explanations, each more outlandish than the last.
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Jerry Cooke / Corbis via Getty The False Romance of Russia
American conservatives who find themselves identifying with Putin’s regime refuse to see the country for what it actually is.
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Russia’s Twin Nostalgias
Vladimir Putin has a fondness for the Soviet era. So do many Russians—but often not for the same reasons.
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Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Getty Putin’s Crackdown on Dissent Is Working
A new law criminalizing “disrespect” for Russian society and institutions might mark the end of the country’s few remaining legal forms of protests.
