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Read the issue » Here’s a big urban problem: How do you speak to an entire city using only one loud voice? Most politicians can’t pull it off. The Post has an answer: make a daily billboard so neon in its message, so portable in its form, that citizens will volunteer—or, better, pay—to carry it around on your behalf. Maybe I’m simply interested in that voice, that loud, familiar sound—the demotic tone, the direct address, the sense of a great organ yelling into power’s ear and being overheard everywhere, from Dyckman to Dyker Heights. then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenueand the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre andcasually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a cartonof Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it “Paper of Wreckage: An Oral History of the New York Post, 1976-2024” (Atria Books), by the former Posties Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo, picks up at the end of the Schiff era. The book is a fun pile of quotations from Post employees and other voices on the paper’s past half century. By the end of Schiff’s tenure, the Post “needed a shot of adrenaline,” the former City Hall bureau chief David Seifman says. That adrenaline was injected in the form of Rupert Murdoch, who bought the paper in 1976. He was a big-spending, baldly ambitious Australian, and, like Schiff, an heir: his late father had bequeathed to him a newspaper, the beginnings of an empire. Then in London, cutting his teeth on quasi-journalistic acquisitions such as News of the World and the Sun, Murdoch developed a diabolical, swashbuckling tabloid style. Many of the Post’s current practices—a lax attitude toward accurate attribution, a habit of placing a scantily clad woman on page 3, an emphasis on photography over lengthy text—were imported from the U.K. Along with Murdoch came a cadre of troublemakers, Aussies and Englishmen who terrorized their female colleagues and, if the anecdotes in “Paper of Wreckage” can be trusted, drank their way through the seventies and eighties. he dies.”Cartoon by Sam GrossCopy link to cartoonCopy link to cartoonLink copied The change in sensibility made the Post more fun helping the conservative-leaning Democrat Ed Koch into Gracie Mansion before devoting its advocative energy to conservatives Its reporters covered the city ferociously and with an adversarial edge One of Murdoch’s first moves was ramping up the paper’s photos in both color and size the photographer Hal Goldenberg hoofed it up onto a roof in Brooklyn to get a shot of the gangster’s cooling corpse “There’s Carmine,” he says with evident glee in “Paper of Wreckage,” “with his cigar in his mouth and his eye blown out I start making pictures.” On the day of Galante’s funeral a reporter was “jostled and menaced” and a photographer punched The paper made big characters—the kinds that populate operas in the same swaggering It was those huge front-page pictures which first grabbed me as a kid scrutinizing with a sociological interest my fellow-riders’ reading material Guys in dress shoes and trenchcoats toted the Times often white guys in jeans frosted with grit and paint like many of the adults I knew—Black people who worked to live a way to make the future more free—joked about the Post being fodder for people with low literacy levels if you didn’t have much time and needed to skim she made a point of picking up the Sunday Times snickering at the wordplay of the headlines and the gruesome frankness of the pictures The Post addressed itself to the berserk and unreasonable city I was starting to love whose textures I couldn’t always feel in the Times reading the rag outdoors and then throwing it away At the Post’s old headquarters from 1970 to 1995 near the South Street Seaport—in its early days a time-forgotten area teeming with gang activity—interestingly malicious characters tended to wash up a subject of ambivalent fixation in “Paper of Wreckage,” is the columnist and editor Steve Dunleavy a favorite Murdoch lieutenant whose tactics Dunleavy pretended to be a grief counsellor in a ploy to get an exclusive interview with the mother of Stacy Moskowitz the final victim of the serial killer known as the Son of Sam Dunleavy dressed in his nice-boy best and insinuated himself with Moskowitz’s mom with whom he grew so close—even after admitting his dishonesty—that she refused to talk to reporters from the Daily News atop a snowdrift—with the fiancée of one of his colleagues Dunleavy was in many ways the true embodiment of the Murdoch regime He knew how to find a good story and stretch it across weeks His racism—like the consistent racism of the Murdoch Post—is well documented in “Paper of Wreckage.” Once aggrieved by attempts to diversify the reportorial ranks “there are too many niggers in the newsroom.” Another Black writer don’t!” I had cornered Dunleavy in the elevator and I guess it looked like I was getting ready to beat the shit out of him “I’ll say this about the Brits and Aussies,” Garnes says There was no smile in your face and stab you in the back.” Pamela Newkirk were not considered newsworthy.” Conversely if a Black person was so much as suspected of a crime the Post could turn its citywide volume up to a perilous decibel Following the infamous case of the Central Park jogger in which a twenty-eight-year-old woman was brutally raped and beaten into a coma the Post published the confessions—later confirmed forced—and the names and addresses of the young men known today as the Exonerated Five exhorting on a daily basis that they be found guilty of the crime who now serves on the New York City Council has summed up his experience with the paper with more sang-froid than it deserves: “The Post has been one of the most unforgiving in terms of its negative coverage of the Black community.” Other disgraces abounded at the Post’s office We talk a lot these days about the follies of the contemporary H.R but any one of these stories ought to give a sensitivity trainer an on-the-spot stroke who “wore devil horns and sent panties to female staffers through interoffice mail.” “Psycho” is one of the Post’s favorite words for villains “Paper of Wreckage” details how the Post’s reporters often came from reputable local outfits such as Newsday but the tabloid’s reputation made it hard for them to get jobs in “straight” journalism after their tour of duty at the Seaport even though more upscale publications often mined the Post for ideas “The glossy magazines at Condé Nast would get a gossip pack,” one reporter says “where the interns would Xerox tabloid stories and distribute that to all the editors in the morning so that the editors could steal the stories and assign think pieces.” It’s easy to understand the allure of those grubby items “Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America” (1992) persuasively argues that the economy and the power of Lincoln’s language was partly a reflection of the rising technologies of his time: “the railroad repetitive strands of simple syntax—“we cannot dedicate we cannot hallow this ground”—had something to do with his society’s new fetish for speed borrows from the sonics of violence: it sounds like weaponry mowing down its targets with unmerciful percussion The nonagenarian gossip writer Cindy Adams’s syntactically demented Borscht Belt prose is the perfect distillation of the Post’s style Here’s a recent Adams reverie—equal parts nostalgia and reactionary sneer—about old New York: To scrub a shmatta cost the scrubee 11 cents Fernando Wood whom nobody remembers except maybe Mrs Also maybe if their marital loins produced any Wood splinters Magazine editors weren’t the only highfalutin New Yorkers who fetishized the Post the much heralded editor of Knopf in the late eighties and never missed a day of the Post.” And the finance crowd philanthropist crowd,” the reporter Jennifer Fermino says “That’s their base in a lot of ways.” Spike Lee has joined protests against the paper’s racist cartoons and refused to talk to reporters affiliated with the outfit The enterprising newsboy used to be a trope the reformist photographer Lewis Hine captured an exhausted boy in Harlem photographed a Black kid in a rough flannel jacket with an ad for an article about “The Negro on the Home Front” behind him Besides the weakened Daily News and the negligent Times the Village Voice—which covered the New York counterculture of the sixties and seventies and the hip-hop-fuelled youth Zeitgeist of the eighties and nineties with an unrivalled vigor—has been desiccated Its website is a sloppy bin of its archives filling space emptied out by more ethical actors It’s just one example of a larger American problem The people who insist on making sense speak in small trusting their listeners to understand subtleties of tone everybody’s off carving out his own personal city and—by the evidence of our last national election in which almost every demographic in the city veered right in Murdoch’s pages—New York keeps hearing it out shows me a more complete picture of where I and people like me really stand maybe it’s because the paper plucks at a string of violence—or nihilism—that runs through the quiet places in my personality Maybe I just like to be scandalized or gossiped to and I’ll stop to hear out any old body who’ll stoop to scratch the itch It certainly helps me see the city I was born in more clearly One of my favorite relationships is the one I share with a certain man at a little storefront in Brooklyn near the intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues letting me skip the line of sixtysomethings waiting to play their lottery numbers A long-ago crime, suddenly remembered A limousine driver watches her passengers transform The day Muhammad Ali punched me What is it like to be keenly intelligent but deeply alienated from simple emotions? Temple Grandin knows The harsh realm of “gentle parenting.”  Retirement the Margaritaville way Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Thank You for the Light.”  Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker. Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker OBITUARY: Remembering the life and career of the ‘tough and popular’ Jochen Mass Ocon vows Haas will 'keep at it’ as he laments bad luck during Miami Grand Prix Antonelli's 'seismic moment' and why Williams were faster than Ferrari – it’s our Miami GP review Gasly admits Alpine ‘need answers’ after difficult weekend in Miami as Doohan reflects on Lap 1 collision with Lawson Audi announce organisational restructure ahead of F1 arrival in 2026 not a bad result considering most of the weekend you felt you haven't really got to grips with the car around Miami really happy to come away with P3 because I've been struggling this weekend But well done to the McLarens – they're just down the road you lucked in a little bit on the Safety Car but at the end of the race you had to keep Max behind you But I was pretty calm and I felt really good with the car to keep him behind me I think Lando's a bit upset with me because we had a bit of a crash on the Lego race this morning so I don't know if he's going to complain at me for something what was your favourite race of the day here in Miami without a doubt the race this morning – the Lego race It’s a P2 – a formidable job by the whole team to get both cars 30 seconds in front of the rest of the field I mean it's never the best feeling but Q: So was it too inviting to go around the outside of Max in Turn 2 But it's the way it is with Max – it's crash or don't pass Unless you get it really right and you put him in the perfect position But I paid the price for not doing a good enough job today Q: The important thing is that you did what was right for you but qualifying was probably one of my trickiest sessions of the year And to come away with a win still on Sunday is an impressive result obviously there was a bit of argy-bargy at Turn 1 [inaudible]… but we had a pace advantage and clearly the car was unbelievable today the big difference I see from you from last year to now is the race pace – how you control a race It seems that when we put Oscar in the lead of the Grand Prix You can control the pace from the time you get into the lead until the chequered flag So it was a good thing that I built that gap in the first stint I think towards the end I started to get things a bit more back under control But there’s still definitely some things to work on from this afternoon very happy with the points – but constantly got to keep learning Have you got any comments about the team – they’ve given you this absolute weapon it’s just incredible the hard work that’s gone in remember two years ago here in Miami we were genuinely the slowest team – I think we got lapped twice – and to now have won the Grand Prix by over 35 seconds to third is an unbelievable result And the hard work of every single person – firstly the people here at the track what’s with the little dance in parc fermé OP: I knew that was going to be the question who has essentially made the Griddy world famous and stupidly made a bet with him that if I won the race I didn’t practice because I thought that was definitely not going to be needed that was my first attempt at a Griddy live on world TV but that’s the one and only time you’ll be seeing me do that You had to fight hard in those early laps and then demonstrated phenomenal pace in clean air Just how much did you enjoy yourself out there today It was tough at the beginning trying to get past Max It was not easy but I picked my moments when I needed to I could tell that we had a lot of pace from the get-go today and it was going to be a matter of when I got past But I wanted to do it as efficiently as I could because I knew once Lando got back behind me I wanted to get through quickly but cleanly I felt like I did a pretty good job of that Maybe not the strongest second half of the race of my life but I think building that gap and being quick at the right times was what I needed Q: You were clinical dispatching Kimi Antonelli Just how tough was it to get past Max Verstappen Kimi was very nice to me and didn’t make life very tough which is nice when you race against people who identify when someone’s quicker and don’t make the race more difficult for both of us I knew I had to try and build a gap while Lando was behind him you were 37 seconds ahead of the first non-McLaren car When you reflect on the weekend as a whole OP: Celebrations – that’s definitely top of the list at the moment but yesterday I was pretty frustrated with my performance but I think the likelihood of winning many races [after] qualifying fourth is pretty low but there was definitely some good fortune there as well I don’t want to rely on that every single Sunday this is the exception to the pace we’ve had this year but the pace we had today from lap one it felt like was unexpected I’ll definitely take the performance and we’ll try and work out how to do that every weekend but there’s still definitely things to work on from a personal side and from a team point of view Q: What part of the racetrack was the car particularly strong on here In qualifying we were not the quickest in the high-speed corners I think generally in the low-speed corners is where we seemed quite good this weekend and looking after the tyres becomes more important That’s probably been a strength of ours so far this year This has been the first very hot race we’ve had in terms of track temperature but the track temperature today was the highest we’ve had all year How difficult was it to work your way through from P6 I never wanted to let Oscar get too far out of my sights but I had to put up a good challenge in the first quarter or third of the race trying to get past the Mercedes but I made my way through reasonably quickly I think Q: And can we get your thoughts on the battle with Verstappen today Q: (Ticiano Figueiredo – Diário do Rio Claro) Oscar thinking about this race and the whole season what do you think is going to be harder: to overtake Max or to keep Lando behind you our two cars were clearly the best in the field by some margin being his teammate now for a couple of years it’s clearly going to be a strong fight between Lando and I Q: (Holly Cain – Palm Beach Post) Two years ago How does it feel palpably different to a year ago The determination and the hard work has always been there we knew that things were in the pipeline to help us come back to the front So while we got lapped twice that day in Miami two years ago that was nice for the whole team in terms of finally having a car capable of winning a race again There was obviously the 1-2 in Monza a few years ago but Miami last season was the turning point in winning races because we could be the quickest on track The determination and hard work are still identical just the joy and the celebrations are a bit more frequent Being first now means we have less tunnel time That’s something we’ve enjoyed over our competitors for the last few years So there are going to be challenges with being at the front Q: (Graham Harris (Motorsport Monday) Question for both of you: winning a race with a 35-second lead when should the team stop focusing on this year’s car and shift to next year it will take the others quite some time to catch up There are a lot of other smarter people than me who calculate when it’s time to switch to next year we do have a strong advantage at the moment but not every weekend has looked like this but I don’t expect every weekend to look like this I think we have the advantage everywhere we go We want to make sure we win both championships this year and put ourselves in a good spot for next year Q: (David Neal – Miami Herald) For Lando: After you got into second place I gave it a good shot from when I got into second I probably only stopped pushing the last 4-5 laps The gap went from almost 10 to four or three I tried the whole race basically until the very end To catch from 10 seconds was always pretty much going to be impossible Q: (Ticiano Figueiredo – Diário do Rio Claro) For both drivers: it’s always tempting to imagine an internal battle between teammates Could we witness something like Lewis vs Nico this year We clearly know that we have our strengths There will be weekends where Lando is stronger We’re very aware of the fact that we want this success for as long as we’re at McLaren But we don’t just want one opportunity at this success We want it for the next however many years and that’s an important and an easy thing to keep in mind for us and the whole team Q: (Holly Cain – Palm Beach Post) A follow-up to that Is it tougher racing for a championship against your teammate We know pretty much exactly how one another drives So from that side you have more information But there are other complications with having the same car You can have the same strengths and weaknesses on track whoever’s in front at the start is probably going to be in front at the end Then there’s the pit strategies and whatever that become a factor when you’re in the same team MONDAY MORNING DEBRIEF: How Leclerc and Hamilton’s opposing Miami strategies culminated in fractious Ferrari radio exchanges Antonelli taking plenty of positives from Miami weekend despite struggles on way to P6 in the Grand Prix 'It was frustrating' – Hamilton opens up on tense Miami radio messages during Ferrari strategy debate MIAMI LOWDOWN: All the key moments as McLaren and Antonelli shine © 2003-2025 Formula One World Championship Limited playWhy Marcus Spears likes Bears' rebuild (2:00)Marcus Spears and Jason McCourty praise the Bears' offseason and state that it's time for Caleb Williams to step up to the plate NFL Nation reporters picked out the most improved position for the team they cover These changes aren't specifically related to the draft but also free agent signings that could lead to significant improvements in 2025 There weren't any changes in our top two spots but there were changes in the ranking from there editors and TV personalities evaluates how NFL teams stack up against one another See the previous ranking: Post-free agency Kansas City also added speed and run-after-the-catch ability on the outside but Philadelphia will have plenty of options at linebacker once he is healthy the Bills have overhauled a 2024 group that was a part of the worst passing defense and third-down defense (44% conversion rate) of Sean McDermott's eight-year tenure who has thrived in the NFL due to his positional versatility Both will immediately make an impact on a Baltimore pass defense that allowed 244.1 yards per game in 2024 the franchise's third worst over the past 25 seasons Baltimore believes Starks' speed will reduce explosive plays while Green's explosiveness will disrupt quarterbacks This combination should help finish off games for the Ravens who allowed a league-worst 14 touchdown passes in the fourth quarter last season play2:05Matt LaFleur shares how Matthew Golden will fit around Jordan LovePackers head coach Matt LaFleur joins "The Pat McAfee Show" and talks about adding Matthew Golden to his roster Most improved position: Interior offensive line Harris and Hampton should give the Chargers the rushing offense Harbaugh envisioned when he came to Los Angeles Walker notched 31 sacks and 191 tackles at Central Arkansas Roberts had 17.5 sacks in two seasons at SMU and the 278-pounder can line up on the edge or inside Houston's 2024 unit combined for 14 interceptions and ranked sixth in passing yards allowed Gardner-Johnson could turn this promising unit into the best in the league giving the 49ers some much-needed juice at a position group they've long prioritized He can immediately make an impact in specialty run packages while he develops as a passer play0:22Seahawks draft Jalen Milroe with the No 92 pickThe Seahawks select Alabama QB Jalen Milroe with the 92nd pick in the 2025 NFL draft who coaches said can play nose tackle but will likely be a 4-technique That leaves the Steelers with a crowded defensive line room as they struggled to stop the run last season Ebiketie led Atlanta with six sacks last season And they brought in defensive line coach Aaron Whitecotton who carries a reputation as a developer of talent he is big enough to turn into a force at nose tackle Miami's defensive line required immediate improvement entering the draft who was sacked a league-high 68 times as a rookie Arizona bolstered its starting lineup and added depth to a front that has become formidable and they traded up to pick him in the fourth round How do the Seahawks, Patriots and 49ers stack up after their offseason moves? ESPN All but one of the newcomers (Milum) have played multiple positions either in college or in the NFL That versatility was a priority for Jaguars general manager James Gladstone to weather the inevitable injuries is a big-play threat who ran a 4.42-second 40-yard dash at the combine The Jets will miss Moses' experience and savviness the offensive line -- under 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If you’re interested in experiencing a ride for yourself, download the Waymo One app today. you have to break some eggs to make an omelet So some of us have been watching the price of eggs On Friday, our Vice President JD Vance posted an op-ed in the Washington Post which could have been headlined Which is the kind of message we need to hear But the Vice President didn’t use that headline a reference to things that have already happened What President Trump achieved in his first 100 days So I’ve decided to use the headline that he could have used use that very phrase in the conclusion of his op-ed the Trump administration has begun to tear down the barriers standing between our nation’s working class and the American Dream and the forgotten men and women of our country are leading its comeback This is more than a recovery from the Biden years; it’s the revival of the spirit that led our ancestors to build the greatest nation on Earth There have certainly been barriers standing between me as a member of America’s forgotten working class Not that I’ve ever wanted to work in a factory now that factories are reopening — but apparently some people used to work in factories So the best that’s yet to come will mean happy people carrying their lunch buckets through the reopened factory doors to take their places on innumerable assembly lines And what will come off the end of those innumerable assembly lines because we all have a slightly different image of the American Dream because Vice President Vance clearly wrote “the American Dream.” He didn’t write “the American Dreams.” It’s quite possible there’s really only one American Dream Not that it’s going to be a direct path Or that it’s going to happen overnight you somehow find yourself on a crowded street with no clothes on One of those unexpected turns took place recently economy took a nosedive during President Trump’s first 100 days Soon after the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its dismal GDP report White House trade adviser Peter Navarro announced that the report “really should be very positive news for America” and was the best negative growth report “I have ever seen in my life… very very good and quite encouraging… huge strong news … we felt really good about that number.” but there are obviously different ways to interpret it that an economic recession was not an aspect of “The Best is Yet to Come” I’ve been thinking about all of those thousands of federal workers who lost their jobs recently thanks to President Trump’s financial acumen four years to get a new factory up and running But at least those terminated federal employees aren’t standing naked on a crowded street Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. 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Read our Privacy notice Donald Trump has been called “a clown” for posting an image of himself as the pope The AI-generated picture caused anger ahead of this week’s gathering of cardinals at the Vatican to choose a new leader of the 1.4-billion-strong Catholic Church president joked that he would “like to be pope” Trump, who is not a Catholic and does not attend church regularly, posted the image on his Truth Social platform late on Friday, less than a week after attending the funeral of Pope Francis The White House then reposted it on its official X account The image shows an unsmiling Trump seated in an ornate chair dressed in white papal vestments and headdress with right forefinger raised towards Heaven a group that describes itself as “pro-democracy conservative Republicans fighting Trump & Trumpism.” calling it “a blatant insult to Catholics and a mockery of their faith.” Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni declined to comment on the image during a briefing with journalists about the process of electing a new pope Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi wrote on X: “This is an image that offends believers insults institutions and shows that the leader of the global right enjoys being a clown the American economy risks recession and the dollar loses value.” the Catholic bishops of New York state also expressed their displeasure “There is nothing clever or funny about this image “We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St Peter Trump on Tuesday had jokingly said he would be his own first choice to become the next pope before adding that there was a “very good” candidate in New York Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, is not on the shortlist of possible contenders, but it does include another American, Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey. There has never been a pope from the United States. Reacting to the meme in West Palm Beach on Saturday morning as she waited for Trump’s motorcade to arrive at his golf club, local resident Debbie Macchia, 60, said: “He was clearly joking. Clearly joking. “But I wouldn’t want to see them do anything sacrilegious with the pope, or anything.” In mid-February, both Trump and the official White House social media accounts posted a different AI-generated image of the president that drew criticism because it depicted him wearing a crown, widely interpreted as implying he believed he enjoyed the powers of a king. “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED,” it was captioned. “LONG LIVE THE KING!” Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies Sign up for free newsletters and get more CNBC delivered to your inbox and more info about our products and services © 2025 CNBC LLC. All Rights Reserved. A Division of NBCUniversal Data also provided by Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets including the Daily Express You can get in touch with Isabel by emailing i.vanbrugen@newsweek.com or by following her on X @isabelvanbrugen either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content A Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet targeted a Russian battalion command post in a high-precision strike in the Donetsk region The strike by the Ukrainian Air Force destroyed the battalion command post and a group of drone operators in the city of Novohrodivka in Donetsk, said the Sonyashnyk Telegram channel which is associated with the Ukrainian military Newsweek has contacted Russia's Foreign Ministry for comment by email The Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet used a high-precision Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)-guided aerial bomb to strike the Russian battalion command post and a drone operators The JDAM is a guidance kit that converts existing unguided bombs into precision-guided "smart" munitions and improves the accuracy of unguided bombs It published a 12-second video of the strike causing huge explosion and clouds of smoke to rise into the air It also shows the aftermath of the attack—a destroyed building and rubble strewed across the ground "Aviation continues to operate across all fronts Su-27 destroys battalion command post and a group of UAVs in Novohrodivka," the Telegram channel said "The JDAM doesn't wait for negotiations—it simply splits the occupiers into atoms Reports suggest several noncommissioned officers and UAV operators went missing following the strike." There are mounting obstacles to Trump's efforts to end the conflict as Putin appears to be conditioning Russian society for a prolonged war in Ukraine—and possible future confrontations with the West In a documentary published on state TV channel Russia-1 by Kremlin journalist Pavel Zarubin, Putin appeared to be trying to "convince the Russian domestic audience that Russia cannot negotiate with the West and needs to continue the war," the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in its latest analysis of the conflict in Ukraine on Sunday "Putin's statements throughout the documentary indicate that Putin likely does not intend to slow offensive operations or transition to defensive operations in Ukraine and instead is attempting to ideologically prepare domestic Russian society for a long war," the think tank said President Donald Trump told NBC's Meet the Press in an interview with host Kristen Welker that aired Sunday: "I do believe we're closer with one party "There's tremendous hatred. Just so you understand, Kristen, we're talking tremendous hatred between these two men [Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky] and between between the generals; they've been fighting hard for three years I think we have a very good chance of doing it." could abandon peace talks with Ukraine and Russia if the two countries can't progress toward ending the conflict Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsweek is committed to journalism that's factual and fair Hold us accountable and submit your rating of this article on the meter. 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