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.

In retrospect, it seems like changing the department's name to Department of War was a strong signal of what this administration wanted to do, huh

Still trying to imagine what would happen if a President Biden—or a President Harris—started a war with Iran with no clear objective or timeline, said American troops were going to die because hey, that's war! and that they didn't rule out putting American boots on the ground...

If you don’t define your goals before you start, no one will know if you’ve failed to achieve them. My latest. puck.news/is-trump-hea...

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Glad we got rid of waste fraud and abuse

Rubio's Munich speech told a very specific story of American immigration: white and Christian. “That occurred to me too,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who is Jewish, confided after. “I’m not a part of this?” puck.news/newsletter_c...

Holy shit! MOTHERLAND has won a National Jewish Book Award!!!

On Saturday, Sen. Lindsey Graham unloaded on the PMs of Greenland and Denmark, telling them that if Trump wanted to take Greenland, they'd just have to deal with it. “Lots of F-bombs,” said one person in attendance. My latest. puck.news/inside-linds...

Nicki Minaj's timing is impeccable.

I'm trying to formulate my thoughts about Don Lemon's arrest in terms other than "I told you so" and "it's only going to get worse, buckle up."