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Public Sphere

Luke Johnson, Claire Potter, Kenneth R. Rosen, Mark Leon Goldberg, Dave Keating, Hugo Dixon

A newsletter by Luke Johnson on democratic erosion in the U.S. and abroad with a special focus on Russia's war in Ukraine.

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Latest Issues

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How Drones are Reshaping Ukraine's Frontline -- and the Future of the War

Four years ago yesterday, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia began by rolling tanks into Ukraine and trying to capture the capital Kyiv, which it failed in doing. Now, the conflict has been transformed. Drones and un...

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4 Years Into the Ukraine War, the U.S. is Out

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Will the U.S. (and Israel) attack Iran?

President Donald Trump said Friday that he is considering limited military strikes to pressure Iran over its nuclear program, as the U.S. has undertaken the largest military buildup in the Middle East since the Iraq War in 2003. According t...

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Reflections: Munich Security Conference

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Authors

The writers behind this newsletter.

  • Luke Johnson
  • Claire Potter

    Historian | Author of "Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy" (Basic Books, 2020) | The New York Times, The New Republic, National Memo, DAME

  • Kenneth R. Rosen

    "Polar War: Submarines, Spies, and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic" (Simon & Schuster) out 1/6/2026 in the U.S. and U.K.

  • Mark Leon Goldberg

    Mark Leon Goldberg is a veteran international affairs journalist who writes the Global Dispatches Substack and hosts the Global Dispatches podcast. https://www.globaldispatches.org/

  • Dave Keating

    Dave Keating is an American-European journalist based in Brussels covering the European Union and the trials and tribulations of the wider European project.

  • Hugo Dixon

    Hugo Dixon is Commentator-at-Large for Reuters. He was previously the founding chair and editor-in-chief of Breakingviews and, before that, editor of the Financial Times’ Lex Column.

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