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China isn’t arming Russia, at least not yet, but it’s happily buying Russian oil and helping Russia bypass Western sanctions.
Julia Ioffe May 23, 2023
As the White House (and the White House adjacent) ponder whether Xi can intervene to forge a peace plan in Ukraine, a little healthy Washington skepticism emerges behind closed doors.
New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen.
Julia Ioffe May 16, 2023
The New Hampshire senator opens up about the gendered confirmation process, the upper chamber’s support for Ukraine, and the Tommy Tuberville fiasco.
Moscow and Beijing have been hard at work spinning the debt ceiling standoff into domestic propaganda.
Julia Ioffe May 9, 2023
The Russians and Chinese are loving—just loving—Congress’s latest debt budgetary hostage crisis. But how much can they really leverage it in their long economic war to replace the dollar as the world’s denominator?
Administration officials say that Moscow appears to be in absolutely no mood to negotiate.
Julia Ioffe May 3, 2023
Despite Biden’s public commitment to bring Evan home, the people tasked with making it happen worry privately that Moscow hasn’t made clear what it wants in return for his freedom.


The Kremlin media is rending its clothes for Carlson.
Julia Ioffe April 26, 2023
In the days since he was fired from Fox News, Carlson has been hailed as a hero and a truth-teller in Russian state media—a testament to his utility in Putin’s wartime campaign.
General Mark A. Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Julia Ioffe April 26, 2023
Onboard a flight to Ramstein Air Base, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs shares his “realist” view of war in Ukraine, Russia’s military failures, and the challenges still to come.
The emerging consensus seems to be that Airman Jack Teixeira’s leak, while plenty damaging, could have been far worse.
Julia Ioffe April 18, 2023
Two weeks after a stunning and embarrassing intelligence breach, official Washington is finally coming to terms with the reality of what got out, what might follow, and why this keeps happening.
Virginia Senator Mark Warner, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and seasoned veteran on issues of national security.
Julia Ioffe April 11, 2023
A candid conversation with the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Ukraine leak, his proposed social media legislation, Putin, Xi, and Elon Musk.


This morning, a Wall Street Journal reporter, Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
Julia Ioffe March 30, 2023
There is something uniquely stomach-turning about the arrest of Gershkovich, a journalist and U.S. citizen of Soviet Jewish extraction—a provocation without precedent since 1986. It’s not just that Russia is “banking hostages,” a common F.S.B. tactic. It’s that Putin is out for revenge.
It turns out that Washington’s foreign policy set has grown increasingly frustrated with the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy.
Julia Ioffe March 28, 2023
The D.C. foreign policy establishment is growing restless as the Biden White House resists calls to articulate a more specific strategy if Ukraine fails to make significant gains by the fall.
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