Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine was not even a week old when there was a backlash against Western ladies who thought Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was sexy. “Enough With the Zelensky Thirst,” scolded the feminist website Jezebel. Added The Forward: “It’s weird.” Weird, maybe; inexplicable, not at all. Sure, the comedic-actor-turned-president is charismatic and easy […]
Miami has announced an event for tomorrow: The City of Miami has set up a voluntary gun buyback program to assist in providing safety and defense equipment to Ukraine. Your donations will be used to assist the Ukraine support efforts. Receive a gift card starting at $50 for an old, unused, or found weapons, no questions […]
“The world is facing a global hunger crisis of unprecedented proportions in 2022 and we are at a critical crossroads,” observes the World Food Programme (WFP) in a recent statement. The WFP reports that 49 million people are currently at risk of succumbing to famine while 276 million others are facing acute food insecurity. That […]
Yesterday the Biden administration announced that it would send an additional $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine as the country continues to combat invading Russian forces. The new aid package comes on the heels of The Wall Street Journal reporting earlier this week that the U.S. is now “sending roughly $130 million a day […]
Honey’s, located in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, makes small-batch meads and sells them around the five boroughs. They source their grapes, sumac, juniper, and dandelion from the Hudson Valley and get honey from bees in the Fingerlakes region. They host community events, like ones held with food writer and Williams College professor Darra Goldstein to celebrate […]
Explanations for Russia’s 2022 war in Ukraine often go back to 2014, when the Revolution of Dignity replaced Kremlin ally Viktor Yanukovych with a pro-Western government and Vladimir Putin responded by annexing Crimea and sponsoring separatist enclaves in Eastern Ukraine. Others focus on 2005, when the Orange Revolution first brought a Western-oriented leadership to power […]
Maksim Pokrovsky, a prominent Russian musician who is now working in New York, has just released this song; it has been out for 15 hours on YouTube, and so far has been viewed 825K views. My sense is that Pokrovsky is fairly prominent, as the frontman of Nogu Svelo! (literally, “Leg Cramp!”), which has been […]
Early and unrealistic hopes for a quick victory by Ukraine’s forces over invading Russian troops have faded as the reality of an extended conflict sets in. That has a world already suffering the self-inflicted wounds of pandemic policy dreading the cost of continuing war in terms of poverty, hunger, and bloodshed. That’s stressful enough to […]
Free trade is under greater attack today than it has been in decades, especially in the United States. Despite continued public support for foreign trade and globalization generally (even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic), a bipartisan cadre of American politicians and pundits is increasingly skeptical of, or downright hostile to, the longstanding consensus […]
In late April, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the launch of a new private sponsorship program through which American citizens could support Ukrainians displaced by the Russian invasion. According to DHS data shared with CBS News last week, over 45,000 Americans have applied to help resettle Ukrainians in the United States since the […]