Julia Ioffe

1 week ago | puck.news | Julia Ioffe

It’s been 100 days of Trump, and the administration is, as another strongman of history once wrote, “dizzy with success.” The U.S. government is now deporting American citizen children with cancer; American universities are losing multibillion-dollar grants for life-saving research under the threadbare guise of fighting antisemitism; measles are back and burning through the country; the stock market has had its worst 100 days of any presidency since Gerald Ford took office; and G.D.P., ruddy...

2 weeks ago | puck.news | Julia Ioffe

All last weekend, Staties past and present hyperventilated over a PDF bouncing around Washington: a 16-page draft of an executive order that would radically transform the State Department. The document was breathtaking in its sweep and vindictiveness: The two bureaus overseeing democracy, human rights, labor, and refugees would be entirely eliminated, as would the Office of Global Criminal Justice and the special envoy for climate, John Kerry’s old position.

2 months ago | bookshop.org | Julia Ioffe

DescriptionAward-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy. In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow—only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America.

2 months ago | open.substack.com | Charlie Sykes |Julia Ioffe

Really, what could go wrong? The Sykes household is under the weather today, so today’s survey of the omnishambles is somewhat abbreviated. The TL;DR:Trump’s "rare-earth” deal with Ukraine is not a peace plan; it’s extortion. And it’s not the first time Trump has tried to extort Volodymir Zelensky. The first time got Trump impeached. The non-confirmation of Ed Martin should be the easiest vote any senator has ever taken. But that assumes they care about the rule of the law, which they don’t.

2 months ago | puck.news | Julia Ioffe

It's been three years since Vladimir Putin sent nearly 200,000 troops across the border into Ukraine to finish what he'd started in 2014: ending Ukraine's drift toward the West. In the months directly preceding the full-scale invasion in 2022, very few people thought it would actually happen.