By The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — For much of the past year, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps in the Pacific have trained for a conflict with the Pentagon’s most powerful potential adversary, China. Now the invasion of Ukraine by Russia — another “near peer” nation and newly aligned partner of China — has […]
By Isabella Zou, Texas Tribune HOUSTON — As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensifies, the former Soviet power announced on Saturday that it detained an American basketball player from Houston last month, the latest in the quickly worsening relations between Russia and the United States. Brittney Griner, a Baylor University graduate and seven-time WNBA All-Star center […]
By Melanie McFarland, Salon One emergent piece of trivia about Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy that may have conquered more hearts and minds than any video propaganda ever could is that he provided the voice for Ukraine’s versions of 2014’s “Paddington” and 2017’s “Paddington 2.” Politicians playing roles in movies stopped being novel decades go, but […]