
Zack Beauchamp
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Zack Beauchamp


Why even many wealthy people in China’s richest city can’t reliably get food — and what it says about the country’s political system.

There is little doubt Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine. Do they amount to genocide?


While Putin batters Ukraine, his ally Viktor Orbán just strengthened his hold on Hungary.


The ridiculous theory that Russia’s war is going according to plan, debunked.

Addressing some of the most pressing questions of the whole war, from how it started to how it might end.


Russia’s offensive is stalled. It has taken massive casualties. We are, according to one expert, “seeing a country militarily implode.”


Zelenskyy’s moving appeal to Congress papered over a difficult fact: Ukraine’s interest may not be America’s.

What history teaches us about how autocrats lose power — and how Putin might hang on.


There’s a new idea for a Ukraine no-fly zone. It doesn’t work any better than the old one.


It’s a very tough needle to thread, but there’s a way to make the West’s Ukraine strategy work.