Vladimir Putin appoints another desk-murderer commander — After hammering out the sundry details of sending 11 million Jews to their death at an elegant lakeside villa at Wannsee, Berlin, and thereby organizing the ‘Final Solution to the Jewish question’ in Europe, three of the men who led this extraordinary meeting took a moment for themselves. According to…

The West gives Ukraine serious new weapons to bleed Russia — As the New Years rolled into a battered but undefeated Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was expressing interest in a ceasefire, dismissed out of hand by the government in Kyiv as a tactical feint. Instead, Ukraine sent several HIMARS guided missiles screaming into a school packed with Russian conscripts, who were sleeping…

The Republican Party reaps what it sows — If you’ve been watching the Republican Party’s orgy of imbecility in the last few days, as far right Freedom Caucus arsonists block Kevin McCarthy’s assent to the speakership and hold Congress hostage in the process, you will have seen George Santos flitting in and out of your television screen, a…

The battle for the soul of the Republican Party continues — If you were expecting the far right to crawl back into its hidey hole, and desist from being partisan arsonists and political suicide bombers, you were mistaken. …

The trials and tribulations of Kevin McCarthy — If Kevin McCarthy thought he was owed the House speakership, after long years of bending himself into an ideological and ethical pretzel, and shedding his spine in the process, he was incorrect. …

Ukraine’s military destroys hundreds of Russian troops — The war in Ukraine is not going well for the Kremlin, and it’s unclear how Vladimir Putin might change his declining fortunes on the battlefield, short of an unthinkable nuclear escalation. …

From the Soviet Gulag to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine — If there exists a single origin point for all the misery and death now enveloping Ukraine, it might be the gray stone edifice of the Lubyanka, that notorious Moscow address that served as the KGB’s headquarters and pretrial detention, and which is now the home of the FSB, formerly Vladimir…

Setbacks haven’t dampened his bloodstained grandiosity — As the New York Times recently phrased it in a groundbreaking investigation into Russia’s catastrophically failed invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has led his country into the “greatest human and strategic calamity since the collapse of the Soviet Union.” …

Fentanyl takes a devastating toll on America — On Monday, the Washington Post published a major 7-part exposé detailing the cataclysmic toll of fentanyl in the United States and Mexico, and Washington’s fumbling efforts to regain some semblance of control over what is easily the most lethal chapter so far in America’s torturous love affair with narcotics. …