Tag: mental health

A few days ago, Ukrainian activist and soldier Roman Ratushniy was laid to rest in the city of my birth, Kyiv. Roman and I didn’t know each other, but my father knew him and spoke admiringly of his...

The story of Michael Lowe — held in a filthy jail for 17 days after someone at American Airlines misidentified him as a shoplifter — should shock you and make you angry, but it should also serve...

The latest jerk to claim that Ukraine should give up territory in exchange for peace is noted war criminal Henry Kissinger — invited to speak at Davos for some reason, in a long and noble tradition...

A Swedish-Russian woman, Eugenia Karlsson, became the internet’s latest target for public shaming after she was captured unleashing a horrific tirade on a Ukrainian in Stockholm: I don’t believe...

This week, I did a panel at George Washington University, hosted by the Organization of Slavic Studies. My co-panelists were career Ukrainian diplomat Kateryna Smagliy and prominent Ukrainian...

Roman Hrybov, the Ukrainian border guard who famously told a Russian warship “go fuck yourself” on the first day of Russia’s shameful invasion of Ukraine is alive — and has received a medal....

The rapturious admiration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — who has more than risen to the occasion as Russia invaded his country — was always bound to inspire a backlash. The whole...

I have good news and bad news. The bad news is as follows: we are in a new and so far very shitty period of history. Russians are bombing Ukraine, my native homeland, and making threats about...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is exhausting Whenever I write this on social media, a cadre of paid troll accounts and a few useful idiots inevitably show up to tell me what a bad person I am. In...

Someone I’m close to recently told me to “harden the fuck up.” In the internet communities I’ve been part of over the years, this would basically constitute a war crime. After all, I have...