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“On the second day of the war, Tanya quit her job as a tax accountant in Massachusetts and told her husband that she had to go home to Ukraine,” writes @fstockman, who traveled to the Ukrainian border with Tanya.https://nyti.ms/3wFz9jY 

“Many in the West are hoping for Mr. Putin’s overthrow,” writes Eileen O’Connor, the former Moscow bureau chief for CNN. “They do not understand Russia or the attitudes that people there have toward power.”https://nyti.ms/3Dm8Ss3 

War blends with entertainment on social media, writes Hayley Phelan: “Before we know it, we have an American billionaire challenging the Russian president to a brawl, as if they were in a high school locker room. And the crowd cheers them on.”https://nyti.ms/3NjXdyJ 

"Too often, we take terminology proposals from academics and journalists as if we will henceforth be penalized — even if only socially — for going against their prescriptions," writes @JohnHMcWhorter.https://nyti.ms/3iDy7ww 

Madeleine Albright would have been thrilled by Biden’s announcement that the U.S. will welcome up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine, and "she would encourage us to do more to respond to this unfolding humanitarian nightmare,” writes @HillaryClinton.https://nyti.ms/3DeBBz0 

“For Hawley, Cotton and Cruz, whose presidential ambitions were clear from the moment they entered office, playing the QAnon game is a no-brainer,” writes @jbouie. “It is also a travesty, a wicked and immoral use of the power of public office.”https://nyti.ms/3IH43uu 

Even when Hollywood tries to conjure the old magic, the public isn’t there for it anymore, writes @DouthatNYT.https://nyti.ms/3JKHrui 

“No matter who you are on this planet, you can’t ignore that bombing children’s hospitals is not a good thing. If there’s anything you can do to condemn the people that are doing that, you should do that,” @JeffSonnenfeld says of companies still in Russia.https://nyti.ms/3iFsHB8 

"Madeleine was 10 years ahead of me at Wellesley, and for decades we used to address and sign our notes to each other 'Dear ’59' and 'Love, ’69,'” writes @HillaryClinton.https://nyti.ms/3qDA5l1 

“BIPOC” has “become part of a burgeoning register of English favored primarily by certain professors and political activists,” writes @JohnHMcWhorter.https://nyti.ms/36KFXSi 

On the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson's first task "will be to figure out how to wield influence without wielding power," writes @jamalgreene. Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan model two different approaches she might consider.https://nyti.ms/3DbotKP 

In the face of Covid uncertainty, it’s “reckless for the government to reduce its efforts to minimize new cases and help those who fall ill,” says the Times editorial board. Yet Congress seems to have lost interest in funding public health efforts. https://nyti.ms/3uv94RD 

The economist Clifford Winston argues that “lawyers shouldn’t need to graduate from accredited law schools to practice, and bar exams should be optional,” reports @petercoy.https://nyti.ms/3IGkLdl 

On social media, Hayley Phelan writes, images and news from the Ukraine war blend with celebrity gossip and pet videos, so that “the trivial follows the dire, the personal appears alongside the public. War starts to blend with entertainment.”https://nyti.ms/3uyQBDI 

“What is needed now is the recognition across the ideological spectrum that frenzied intolerance of speech with which we differ is ultimately destructive of us all.” #NYTLettershttps://nyti.ms/3usdOYh 

A no-fly zone over Ukraine "would have unclear humanitarian benefits while increasing, rather than lowering, the risk of war between the world’s two largest nuclear powers," write @OlyaOliker and @BCFinucane.https://nyti.ms/3LkGYj7