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I looked at Putin and was terrified from the very beginning. That makes me look very prescient because he actually turned out to be exactly the monster that I thought he was.

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Masha Gessen

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There’s something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

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We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.

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May 14, 2024

We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.

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May 14, 2024

There’s something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

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