Russian President Vladimir Putin is damaged goods. He may have survived this weekend’s mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group of mercenaries. In reacting as he did, though, Putin not only made himself even weaker but planted the idea of his impotence in the minds of Russians and the world.
There’s a great way the U.S. and the European Union could together address two huge challenges in one policy sweep. It’s to create a transatlantic “carbon club,” which I’ll describe in a moment.
In the U.S., the national rate of anxiety tripled in the second quarter compared to the same period in 2019 and depression almost quadrupled.
