War of Words
In 2014, Russell Bonner Bentley was a middle-aged arborist living in Austin. Now he’s a local celebrity in a war-torn region of Ukraine—and a foot soldier in Russia’s information war.
Ukraine
The Killers of Kiev
If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.
The Patriot and the Correspondent
A pro-Ukraine activist goes silent in separatist-held Donetsk. A foreign correspondent goes looking for him.
If You Don't Think Paul Manafort Can Get Trump Elected, You Don't Know Paul Manafort
Trump’s key adviser is a lobbyist known for reinventing tyrants.
The Cops That Would Save a Country
Creating a new, clean police force in the Ukraine.
Inside the Kremlin’s Hall of Mirrors
Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls.
The Search for Petr Khokhlov
A Russian soldier vanishes in Ukraine.
Why Not Kill Them All?
A dispatch from Donetsk.
"Then I Saw Them Everywhere. Children’s Belongings Were Everywhere.”
How the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 rippled around the world, from the battlefield of Ukraine to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to the White House.
Interview: I Was A Separatist Fighter In Ukraine
A conversation with one of Russia’s “little green men”: a 24-year-old recruited to fight in Eastern Ukraine.
"This Is Not a Barbie Doll. This Is an Actual Human Being."
A profile of Valeria Lukyanova, otherwise known as the “Human Barbie.”
Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine
On the dueling propagandists of Kiev and Moscow.
