Michael D. Weiss

Weiss is the News Director at New Lines Magazine and coauthor of New York Times bestseller ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror. His forthcoming book is a history of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence service.

Recent Articles

Even If Russia Wins, It Won't Do So Easily

In the early hours of Feb. 23, Liubov Tsybulska, an adviser to Ukraine’s government and military, woke from a terrible dream. “I was screaming but my voice was gone,” she tells me over Signal. “When...

By Michael D. Weiss

How a Manufactured Migrant Crisis Showed That Europe's Last Dictator Can Rattle the EU

Perhaps the greatest success the sclerotic dictatorship of Alexander Lukashenko has racked up this week has been seeing a host of Western news reports refer to grim scenes at the Belarusian-Polish border as a “migration...

By Michael D. Weiss and Monika Richter

Russia Is Murdering Alexei Navalny in Plain Sight

“If you saw me now—maybe you would have a good laugh,” Alexei Navalny wrote on Facebook April 20. “Look at him! A skeleton walking, wobbling around his prison cell. In his hands he is holding...

By Michael D. Weiss

Navalny Is Succeeding Where Putin's Opponents Have Failed

It was minus-61 degrees Fahrenheit in Yakutsk, about 300 miles south of the Arctic Circle, on Saturday, but the people still came. The scene was like something out of a post-apocalyptic movie: a queue of...

By Michael D. Weiss

How Defiance in Belarus Became a Movement

Sviatlana Haluza broke down on June 9. As an employee of Belarus’s state-controlled media outlet SB.by, she’d grown used to rewriting boilerplate propaganda mined from other state-controlled media outlets. But now her boss instructed her...

By Michael D. Weiss
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