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Puck’s daily political newsletter from Washington—featuring Leigh Ann Caldwell, Julia Ioffe, Peter Hamby, Abby Livingston, and John Heilemann—on what’s really happening in this town, from the White House to the Pentagon to Capitol Hill, K Street, and the campaign trail.
THE LATEST ARTICLES
Julia Ioffe
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March 3, 2025
Après Zelensky
While Democrats rush to express support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following his Oval Office thrashing, even some supporters are whispering that he “stepped in it.”
Julia Ioffe
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February 25, 2025
The Fallacy of the Trump-Putin Pact
Precisely three years into Russia’s war on Ukraine, we’re right back where we started in many ways. “At some point, American ambitions will collide with Russian realities,” one Republican foreign policy insider told me, “which is to say, the same story we have watched about a half-dozen times before.”
Julia Ioffe
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October 9, 2024
Tomorrow Will Be Worse
Of all the worst-case scenarios I imagined for Israel, the cruel reality of the present moment—with tens of thousands dead and Israel fighting two wars, one in Gaza and one in Lebanon—has exceeded even my eternal pessimism. Will Israel, which was created as a safe haven for Jews, always be like this?
Julia Ioffe
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October 2, 2024
Biden’s Election Cop Tells All
A timely conversation with Matt Olsen, head of the Justice Department’s national security division, about Russia’s ’24 election meddling efforts, Iran’s aggressive hacking of the Trump campaign, and why declassifying information about these attacks may be the best antidote.
Julia Ioffe
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September 25, 2024
Blinken Contempt & Havana Syndrome, Revisited
News and notes from Washington, on Mike McCaul’s ulterior motive for subpoenaing Anthony Blinken, and a new development in the endlessly curious case of the C.I.A. and the “Anomalous Health Incidents” it has struggled to explain.
Julia Ioffe
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September 18, 2024
The Madness of Ryan Routh
A close reading of the wannabe Trump assassin’s self-published memoir, documenting his time in Ukraine, reveals a mentally ill man grappling with the existential comedown from his delusions of grandeur.
Julia Ioffe
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September 5, 2024
A Game of Telegram
Ever since his arrest in Paris, Telegram founder Pavel Durov has become an unlikely free speech martyr, somehow uniting both Navalny supporters and the Kremlin in their praise of him. And yet, the truth about Durov’s actions appears to be at odds with the legend.
Julia Ioffe
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August 28, 2024
The Durov Delusion
The billionaire Telegram founder, now a cause célèbre among the Russian opposition following his arrest in France, is not quite the free speech hero he is made out to be.
Julia Ioffe
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August 20, 2024
Our Man in Rappahannock
Dimitri Simes, the Kremlin TV host and Russian-American political analyst now living in Moscow, opens up about the mysterious F.B.I. raid on his Virginia home.
Julia Ioffe
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August 20, 2024
Casting Kamala’s Fantasy Cabinet
Despite Harris’s lack of a national security platform, Democrats are entering a new phase of feverish speculation surrounding who might be tapped to create, and execute, her foreign policy agenda.
