Our correspondent finds Ukraine’s capital already accustomed to an eerie war footing. People are getting married and playing music, even as medicine runs out and a new volunteer army braces for fighting.
Australia’s barely fathomable floods show freakish weather is becoming increasingly common there. And the case for reforming how grammar is taught.
Russian missiles falling on Ukraine’s far West raise fears that a new front in the war has been opened. The Biden administration may be considering another extension of the federal student loan payment freeze. Will former President Donald Trump’s endorsements and rallies sway the outcome of GOP congressional primaries?
Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé and our panellists on the weekend’s defining stories. Plus: we check in with our friends and contributors in London, Hong Kong, Antalya and Ukraine.
Georgina Godwin with the weekend’s top stories: the latest in Ukraine, Vincent McAviney on the weekend’s papers and Andrew Mueller on what we learnt this week.
Russia has bombed a children’s hospital in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol. Election professionals cite threats, stress, and political attacks on the voting system among the forces pushing them from their jobs. And how eager will parents of the youngest kids in the U.S. be to have their children vaccinated against COVID?
The latest from Ukraine, with an update on humanitarian corridors and the refugee situation. Plus: the official French presidential-election candidate list is released, and how does China and Russia’s relationship swing the balance of global power?
The West’s co-ordinated financial weaponry is starting to bite, opening a new age of economic conflict; once-unthinkable oil embargoes seem now to be on the table.
Taiwan is another democratic country with a big, bullying neighbour; we examine how the war has sparked introspection. And celebrating Pier Paolo Pasolini, a polymathic auteur unjustly known only for his most controversial film.
We take a look at the latest from Ukraine with Olga Tokariuk and discuss what it means that Russia has been referred to the International Criminal Court. Plus: what’s the impact of the conflict on global energy markets?
We hear the latest from Ukraine as Russia’s invasion continues and discuss the situation on the country’s border as thousands flee.
Plus: the view from Taipei and Beijing, the use of misinformation in the conflict and the impact on aviation.
A.M. Edition for March 1. Russia intensifies its war in Ukraine, pummeling civilian centers and setting the stage for a major assault on the capital, Kyiv.
WSJ national-security reporter Brett Forrest is in Lviv in western Ukraine and he says we may be seeing a regression to more traditional tactics from Moscow, as Russian forces struggle with fierce Ukrainian resistance. Luke Vargas hosts.
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