![Leonid “Chaplan” Numerchuk gets on his knees to beg a woman to evacuate from the embattled Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in late January. She had requested an evacuation, but changed her mind when rescuers arrived, and ultimately stayed in her home.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Leonid_Knees.jpg)
A Priest Races to Rescue Civilians as Russian Forces Close In A Priest Races to Rescue Civilians as Russian Forces Close In
Meet Leonid Nomerchuk, the 39-year-old priest evacuating civilians from Ukrainian villages under Russian missile and drone attack.
Feb 12, 2025 / Jared Goyette and Milana Holovan
![A man carries an injured child, fleeing down a road in al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/gaza-child-1440x907px.jpg)
We Are Failing Children Around the World With Our War-Making We Are Failing Children Around the World With Our War-Making
What today’s conflicts are doing to the children trapped by them.
Oct 28, 2024 / Nick Turse
![A Study Reveals CNN and MSNBC’s Glaring Gaza Double Standard](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/VR_gaza-media-main-art.jpg)
A Study Reveals CNN and MSNBC’s Glaring Gaza Double Standard A Study Reveals CNN and MSNBC’s Glaring Gaza Double Standard
Palestinians received far less sympathetic and humanizing coverage than either Israelis or Ukrainians, a Nation analysis has found.
Oct 14, 2024 / Adam Johnson and Othman Ali
![Yemen Cluster Bomb](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Yemen_Cluster-bomb_2016_ap_img.jpg)
The Remnants of War Are Killing People in Times of Peace The Remnants of War Are Killing People in Times of Peace
Unexploded ordnance makes the terror of war linger after the wars themselves are in the history books.
Oct 2, 2024 / Andrea Mazzarino
![Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the White House on July 14, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-2162013530.jpg)
I Left Biden’s Campaign Over Gaza. Here’s How Harris Can Earn My Trust Again. I Left Biden’s Campaign Over Gaza. Here’s How Harris Can Earn My Trust Again.
The president’s foreign policy choices in the Middle East and Ukraine have been disasters. Harris needs to make a decisive break.
Aug 16, 2024 / Amed Khan
![Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Joe Biden hold a joint press conference at the Masseria San Domenico on the sidelines of the G7 Summit hosted by Italy on June 13, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2156801592-1.jpg)
10 Questions for the Candidates 10 Questions for the Candidates
On US foreign policy, the war in Ukraine, and US-Russia relations.
Jun 27, 2024 / James Carden and Katrina vanden Heuvel
![Smoke rises behind the Holy Sritenska church following a Russian missile strike in Odesa, Ukraine on June 24, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2158471931-1.jpg)
New Polling Shows Significant Ukrainian Support for Diplomacy to End the War New Polling Shows Significant Ukrainian Support for Diplomacy to End the War
There is more dissent from the Zelensky government’s war aims than may appear.
Jun 25, 2024 / Mark Episkopos
![First lady Jill Biden, President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Brigitte Macron arrive at Elysée Palace on June 8, 2024, in Paris, France.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2156080042.jpg)
What’s Old About Biden? (It Isn’t His Age.) What’s Old About Biden? (It Isn’t His Age.)
His foreign policy ideas are tired.
Jun 13, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
![People wave Polish and EU flags during a pro-EU rally organized by Prime Minister Donald Tusk ahead of European Parliament elections in Warsaw's Castle Square on June 4, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2155495614.jpg)
What Is at Stake as the European Union Swings Right? What Is at Stake as the European Union Swings Right?
The right’s normalization moves ahead.
Jun 6, 2024 / Marlene Laruelle
![A Ukrainian soldier waits for orders next to the artillery at his fighting position as the Russia-Ukraine war continues in the direction of Liman, Ukraine, on May 25, 2024.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ukraine-military-150KB-getty.jpg)
The Perils of Wider War in Eastern Europe The Perils of Wider War in Eastern Europe
We face a choice between a negotiated settlement in Ukraine and the possibility of a catastrophic war.
Jun 5, 2024 / Katrina vanden Heuvel, James Carden for The Nation