The New York Times Presents: Russia for Dummies

Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. Jonathan Mahler, a sportswriter who hit it big with his 2005 book Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City, has turned his attention to something that...

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Don’t Forget the Victims of Our Wars

Rozina Ali reports on some of the civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in Yemen: Hassan’s brothers were already there, digging through the rubble, searching for the remains of a family. “They were scattered and torn into pieces,” he said. Rescuers recovered...

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