Putin has embarked on a war of regime change. He means not merely to slice off a chunk of eastern Ukraine but to overthrow the Ukrainian government—which seeks association with the European Union and (some day) membership in NATO—and to replace it with a pliant proxy who would bring the country back into Moscow’s orbit.

If Putin succeeds in undermining Ukraine, he is unlikely to stop there. His distrust of the West and expansive view of Russia’s destiny are by now deeply entrenched. Our policy must raise the cost of eroding the international order.

Mr. Putin’s attack is not primarily about NATO or security. It’s all about his xenophobic, imperial and misguided notion that Ukraine was inherently an appendage of Russia, its independence a historical fluke and its rulers usurpers.

For the first time in decades, citizens in the West face the prospect of a threat to the geopolitical order that may require a material sacrifice on our part—not somebody else’s. Do ordinary people have the will, unity, or belief in this order to make that sacrifice?

Reducing reliance on Russian gas will require substantial investment and political will. Europe needs to replace as much Russian gas as possible with liquefied natural gas, ideally with long-term contracts to buy gas from allied countries such as the U.S.

On a more strategic level, the United States should try to build some distance between China and Russia. That won’t happen overnight, but the Biden administration should step up its private diplomacy with China, highlighting the economic and strategic risks — including financial punishment and increasing anti-China sentiment in the West — of it being closely associated with an aggressive Russia.

A grateful administration (so the Israeli government hopes) will provide Israel with more means to deal with the consequences of the agreement. And forgive me for being a little suspicious about this possibility. The administration is going to want to make sure that the compensation for Israel would not allow Israel to take steps that would undermine the agreement.

The Bennett-Lapid-Gantz government’s strategy regarding an Iranian nuclear agreement has failed. It had been guided by the following concept: We’ll try to prevent the signing of the agreement and if there’s no alternative, we’ll have an impact on a new agreement.

Worrying that a deal with Iran won’t be able to stop the country from developing a nuclear weapon, Israel already signaled its readiness to strike Iran.

The coalition parties are increasingly looking at what the other parties are getting at their expense, rather than what the country gains by having a government in which the parties put to the side for a few years the 30% of what they disagree on, and focus on the 70% of the things that they do agree upon.

…with its razor-thin majority, even such seemingly banal policy questions can lead a party that refuses to vote along coalition lines to obstruct the government’s entire agenda.

Of course, these statements have no grip on reality, and that’s a good thing. Tragically, a reality in which the leadership cries wolf and rushed to embrace the real wolf for political benefit poses just as much danger.

The new study shows that, for girls in particular, the correlation between mental health and social media use is larger than that between mental health and binge drinking, early sexual activity, hard drug use, being suspended from school, marijuana use, lack of exercise, being stopped by police, and carrying a weapon.

Congress should also require that all social media and online accounts offer parents and guardians administrator-level privileges over a minor’s account. Parents could then monitor a much larger share of their children’s online activity and, if need be, revoke user privileges…

A number of the bills pending before Congress offer worthy ideas that would require social media companies to disclose more about how they moderate content; other legislation would make it easier to hold platforms accountable via lawsuits. Unfortunately, most of the bills are too fragmentary to get the job done.

The left should not be happy about corporations co-opting their serious concerns for initiatives like these that just end up giving Tucker Carlson fodder for his show.

Representation matters in every aspect of life including digital assistants. I appreciate how Apple is continuing to take steps to make Siri more inclusive from dropping gender classifiers and using numbers instead to dropping the default voice & now adding a less-gendered voice

I’ve long used a male voice on my devices. It’s been funny over the years who was surprised when they heard male Siri. It’s easy to forget the implicit biases in much of our technology. I’m glad a gender-neutral Siri will be available soon.