Julia Ioffe joins Peter Hamby for a close reading of Putin’s fifth inauguration speech, and what the Russian president’s undisguised embrace of fascism portends for the future of his country, Ukraine, and more. Then they dissect the overly tidy interpretations of the Israel-Hamas war popping up on college campuses.

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