In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. As with many developments here in the early stages of […]
A shootout between Ukraine’s two most powerful intelligence services left three military intelligence officers wounded on Wednesday. The gun battle in a Kyiv residential neighborhood brought a long-running feud into public view. One Ukrainian intelligence source described it to me as an internal dispute between the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the country’s military […]
After yet another murder committed by a mentally ill person with a history of police contact, it has become undeniable that our country has an issue with letting mentally damaged people roam the streets until they violently snap. Police said Erin Piancetti, a new mother, was recently murdered in New York City, apparently stabbed to […]
On Sunday afternoon, I was at a picnic with the other parents in our homeschool co-op. One new couple was almost comically typical of our beautiful little Catholic bubble: She had been a third-grade teacher at a classical Catholic school. He worked in the military-industrial complex. As toddlers toddled around us, our grade-school daughters walked […]
History illuminates the present. I’ve been reading Stephen Kotkin’s widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Josef Stalin and have encountered many passages that illuminate the present. I learned, for example, that Stalin met the exiled Vladimir Lenin more than a decade before the October 1917 revolution, and that by the early 1920s until his […]
The difference between surviving an overdose and dying from the next one often comes down to what happens in the hours and days afterward. A person overdoses at work. A colleague reaches for naloxone and knows how to use it. The overdose is reversed, and that person never enters the national death count. What happens […]
