Politics

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered us a masterclass in improvisational leadership. Time and again, especially since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022, he’s used his sophisticated skills as an actor to raise support for his country and to best his rivals. In the Oval Office on Friday, he showed us how to outperform a pair of bullies.

Since Trump’s second inauguration, I’ve been in an anxious and depressive spiral. Trump’s executive orders, and many yet-to-be-enacted proposals outlined in Project 2025, personally affect me and my family. As the child of immigrants from China, I am not sure which I’m more afraid of: the ending of birthright citizenship, or the increase in Sinophobic rhetoric across the political landscape resulting in violence or death.

Access to science education and safe living environments for all are my goals. Ted Cruz came for me.
It was just before 10 p.m. as I fumbled for my car key in the…