"Every person eventually realizes that time is the most valuable resource on the planet — not oil, or uranium, not lithium, or anything else, but time. Time,” he said.
Polish state media and affiliated propagandists, echoed by waves of anti-Semites on Twitter, spent past couple of days attacking me for something I didn't say. Seems like a good moment to repost things I *did* say. 1. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Here on the use of anti-gay rhetoric in the presidential campaign (will sound familiar to many) theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
We went to the Kherson region and discovered a Ukrainian army that is simultaneously very high tech, using the most modern military software ever invented, and very low tech, operating like a partisan army at times. That's why we keep misunderstanding what it can do
Ukrainians have thought a lot about what it would mean for Crimea to fall, and how it could be transformed afterwards. Usually our imagination doesn't stretch that far. Maybe it should
There is a story unfolding in Poland now so awful I can hardly write it. It concerns a young boy who was the victim of a pedophile. The pedophile was convicted; the boy's name was kept anonymous, as the law requires. Unfortunately, the boy's mother is an opposition politician.
In order to take revenge on the mother, Polish state media, with help from the prosecutors office - both now controlled by the extremist far-right - decided to reveal details of the boy's case. He was identified. He committed suicide.
Similar attacks, similarly coordinated, have been launched against adults in Poland, as I have written before and personally experienced. But this is the first to result in the death of a child. The name of the ruling party, "Law and Justice,' has truly descended into farce.
Greetings to all from an extraordinary march in Mexico city - tens of thousands of people chanting the name of...the National Electoral Institute. Which is under threat, from the president. Beginning to be a familiar story
The American Vice President and the Secretary of State have both recognised that Russia commits war crimes in Ukraine. Here is the evidence: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…