1. Sanctions have backed Vladimir Putin into a corner – and that’s where he is most dangerous.
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2. The new vanguard of journalism entrepreneurs won’t destroy media; they’ll probably save it.
By Ann Friedman in Columbia Journalism Review
3. Can Congress rein in the spies?
By David Cole in the New York Review of Books
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