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Jan 6, 2025 | 
msn.com | Mark Lawrence Schrad
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
slate.com | Mark Lawrence Schrad
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Jan. 20, 2025, will mark the second inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Coincidentally, it will also mark my 20th year of teaching international law.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Mark Lawrence Schrad
In the lead-up to Election Day 2024, like every election before it, disaffection with the two major-party presidential candidates is bubbling. Many thoughtful and idealistic Americans are considering casting a protest vote for a third-party alternative, wishing that, if enough voters follow suit, they will smash the duopoly of Democrats and Republicans.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
salon.com | Mark Lawrence Schrad
The one-two punch of hurricanes Helene and Milton to Florida’s Gulf Coast — along with the flooding and devastation in western North Carolina — have ignited partisan disagreement and outright misinformation about the scope and role of the federal government in disaster relief. Not long ago, appropriations for aid funding were among the least contentious bills in Congress, typically carried with unanimous bipartisan support.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
slate.com | Mark Lawrence Schrad
Skip to the content History “It’s a Urania Klein,” my friend said, as he lifted the shapely antique typewriter from his car trunk. “German-made portable. Nazi-era. Built in 1939.” It was a stunning machine—he certainly knew how to close a trade with a fellow typewriter collector. To the uninitiated, it looks quite like any of the countless outmoded typewriters that are gathering dust in antique malls across the country.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Tal Trachtman Alroy |Ravi Agrawal |David Shedd |Mark Lawrence Schrad
As Israel escalates its fight against Hamas, and amid fears of a broader conflict breaking out in the Middle East, Russia’s war in Ukraine continues to grind on. Now entering its 21st month, both sides have sustained heavy losses with no end in sight. While conventional wisdom suggests that Kyiv has underperformed in its ongoing counteroffensive, new analysis in Foreign Policy and elsewhere shows Ukraine has achieved significant wins in Crimea and the Black Sea.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Mark Lawrence Schrad
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May 5, 2023 | 
wiadomosci.onet.pl | Mark Lawrence Schrad
Żeby zrozumieć Rosję, trzeba zrozumieć zależność między wódką i władzą. Przeczytaj cz. 1 opowieści wódczanym imperium Putina W ponurych latach 90. Putin wrócił do St. Petersburga, gdzie był zdolnym — i co najważniejsze — lojalnym współpracownikiem liberalnego mera Anatolija Sobczaka. Putin stanął na czele miejskiego Komitetu ds. Stosunków Zewnętrznych, nadzorując lukratywne transakcje inwestycyjne z zagranicą i podobno sowicie na nich zarabiając.
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May 5, 2023 | 
wiadomosci.onet.pl | Mark Lawrence Schrad
Spośród dziesiątek fabryk wódki rozsianych po 11 strefach czasowych Rosji, klejnotem w koronie rosyjskiego przemysłu alkoholowego jest destylarnia Kristall w centrum Moskwy, miejsce narodzin znanej na całym świecie marki Stoliczna. Założona w 1901 r. jako Moskiewski Państwowy Magazyn Win nr 1, ikoniczna fabryka z czerwonej cegły, znajdująca się dwie mile na wschód od Kremla, napędzała monopol wódki cara Mikołaja II, stanowiąc największe źródło dochodów rosyjskiego imperium.
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May 5, 2023 | 
politico.com | Mark Lawrence Schrad
Russia Has a Vodka Addiction. So Does Vladimir Putin – But Not the Same Way. The Russian leader is famously sober. There’s a reason that his country isn’t. Illustration by Keith Alexander Lee for POLITICOMark Lawrence Schrad is professor of political science at Villanova University and the author of Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition (Oxford University Press, 2021).
