A warrant is out for a diver – but Vladimir Putin can breathe easy, it isn’t for him. Alexey Druzhinin/RIA NOVOSTI/AFP via Getty Images)

Treating Nord Stream blasts as a whodunit misses the point – and plays into Russia’s plan to distract and divide

Since saboteurs blew up the Russia-Germany gas pipelines in September 2022, theories have swirled about who was responsible. German prosecutors recently issued a warrant for a Ukrainian.
Police officers push back demonstrators next to St. John’s Episcopal Church outside of the White House, June 1, 2020 in Washington D.C. Jose Luis Magana/AFP via Getty Images

From Macedonia to America: Civics lessons from the former Yugoslavia

Demonstrations by Macedonian villagers in the 1980s, which helped spark the end of Communist rule in the former Yugoslavia, hold vital lessons for Americans peacefully protesting for police reform.
New York police officers at the Time Warner Center, Oct. 25, 2018, in New York after report of a suspicious package at CNN. AP/Craig Ruttle

Bombs are part of American political history

Bombs have long been a tool for devotees of the range of fringe American political thought. From anarchists to racists, their methods have wrought havoc – but also have created backlash.
Presidents Trump and Putin in Helsinki. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Vladimir Putin’s lying game

Donald Trump admires Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Putin’s track record over his career reveals a serial liar, and presents damning evidence of complicity in multiple critics’ violent deaths.

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