On the Supremes’ Greenlighting of Virginia’s Removal of Aliens from Voter Rolls

The social safety net is being shredded, we’re losing our edge in arts and science and have squandered our standing as a beacon of hope. But we’ve survived worse.

Speak plainly! Russian President Vladimir Putin snapped at his foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, at a televised security council meeting on the eve of his shambolic full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Naryshkin was visibly nervous. Once he had finally stammered out his support for recognizing the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states-the words Putin was waiting for-he was abruptly told to sit down, like an unprepared pupil flubbing an oral exam.

Can’t we all just get along?