Julia Ioffe

MOTHERLAND is finally out today! And she's a finalist for the National Book Award. Get your copy today! bookshop.org/p/books/moth...

One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

If America isn't a one-party state by the time the midterms are over, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Always love talking to my partner in Puck @PeterHamby, especially when it's about Pete Hegseth's purge of the military. (And props to our team for choosing these thumbnails lol) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oUR...

Foggy Bottom is quietly hiring again—including for the very roles that thousands of career diplomats lost last year. My latest. puck.news/the-state-de...

Back in April, I reported that Dan Driscoll, secretary of the Army, was going to leave the job by the end of summer. Today, on August 31, he did just that. puck.news/hegseths-pen....

As Dan Driscoll prepares to leave his job as Army Secretary, I'm told acting chief of staff Gen. Chris LaNeve has stopped reporting to him and goes right to Sec. Hegseth instead. My latest. puck.news/inside-dan-d...

“When is Pete Hegseth leaving?” said a source familiar with the situation. “What makes you think he’s ever going to leave? That’s the only conclusion I can come to.” My latest. puck.news/inside-dan-d...

I am so excited to show you the cover of the forthcoming Russian translation of MOTHERLAND, which is being published by Yulia Navalnaya's One Book Publishing with a cover designed by artist Anna Samoylova.

When Trump was first elected in 2016, the Gulf states were, as one former Trump admin official told me, "like kids in a candy store." These days, they just want him to get out of the way. My latest. puck.news/the-gulf-sta...

The right-wing Ben Franklin Fellowship is now handing out awards—and cash prizes—with the State Dept to its diplomats, including the MLK Jr prize for "meritocracy" & Dwight Eisenhower award for "creative diplomacy" in deporting the undocumented. My latest. puck.news/the-state-de...

Why is the Trump administration blocking the next French ambassador and revoking the visa of the current Brazilian ambassador? My latest. puck.news/why-trump-pu...

NEW: The Treasury Dept. will be going after leftie NGOs to make them disclose all the smaller NGOs they fiscally sponsor. “It will have an asymmetrical impact on the left, just because the right is organized differently,” a source familiar told me. My latest. puck.news/inside-trump...