At a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, several convicts stand assembled under barbed wire to hear an army recruiter offer them a shot at parole. In return, they must join the grueling fight against Russia. Ukraine is expanding the draft to cope with acute battlefield shortages more than two years into fighting against Russia’s full-scale invasion.
On April 17, Amazon removed one of the most cited books of our current cultural moment because it's just too offensive to suggest that importing a billion migrants might destroy your civilization:...