ARTS
22 Books
How work came to take
over our lives
23 Author of the week
Amanda Gorman on
becoming a superstar poet
24 Art & Music
Painter
Salman Toor’s
explorations of
identity
25 Film &
Home
Media
Divine
devilry in the
horror movie
Saint MaudNEWS
4 Main stories
Doubts over President
Biden’s push for “unity”;
the new administration’s
plan to boost vaccine
production
6 Controversy of the week
Will Trumpism triumph
in the GOP’s civil war?
7 The U.S. at a glance
Biden’s fi rst phone call
with Vladimir Putin;
Rudy Giuliani hit with
$1.3 billion lawsuit
8 The world at a glance
Mexico’s president
catches Covid-19; “Asia’s
El Chapo” arrested
10 People
Dua Lipa’s life as a
refugee; a property mogul’s
“interdimensional” quest
11 Briefi ng
What Britain has gained
and lost from Brexit
12 Best U.S. columns
Fix social media by
ending anonymity; why
we must champion
foreign dissidents
15 Best international
columns
Mass protests in Russia
after opposition leader
Alexei Navalny arrested
16 Talking points
QAnon’s disappointed
devotees; Biden’s
executive order on
LGBTQ rights; is it time
to scrap the fi libuster?LEISURE
27 Food & Drink
How to make egg foo
yung at home; a Michelin-
starred vegan chef
28 Coping
What Covid vaccines mean
for travel in 2021; why you
should be double maskingBUSINESS
32 News at a glance
The nonsensical GameStop
stock surge; a new climate
goal from BlackRock boss
33 Making money
What Biden’s tax plans
mean for your fi nances; the
rising cost of fi tness apps
34 Best columns
Real U.S.-China tensions
at virtual Davos; Miami
lures the tech brosPolice clash with Navalny supporters in St. Petersburg, Russia. (p.15)Dua Lipa
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It’s rare that a news week hands over an example of courage as
admirable as that of Alexei Navalny. Poisoned in the summer by
a Russian nerve agent—a favorite and increasingly brazen tool of
Vladimir Putin’s state—Navalny barely survived that assassina-
tion attempt after treatment in Germany. Then, last week, he re-
turned to Russia, where he was immediately arrested, as he knew
he would be. So, too, were more than 3,000 other Russians, who
came out to support him in the bitter cold, knowing what the out-
come would be (see Best Columns: International). Incredibly, the
day after his arrest, Navalny’s foundation released an investigation
into Putin’s billion-dollar Black Sea palace, knowing that in Russia
(as in other dictatorships), the leader’s personal corruption is ab-
solutely the most radioactive of all possible subjects. Navalny un-
derstands where this leads: Boris Nemtsov, once Russia’s leading
opposition politician, was gunned down on a Moscow street in- Navalny is more than tempting fate. He is defying it.
In The New York Times this week, Bret Stephens called for the
U.S. to put support for dissidents such as Navalny and Hong
Kong’s Joshua Wong at the center of American foreign policy (see
Best Columns: U.S.). As a Russian immigrant who marched as a
child for the release of Soviet-era dissidents, I support that whole-
heartedly and viscerally. Yet I worry about how at the moment
autocrats are gloating over the scenes at the Capitol, happily tell-
ing their citizens, “See, now Washington has its own ‘color rev-
olution.’” Authoritarians have peddled this kind of false equiva-
lence for years, but a democratic crisis at home and several years
of cozy ing up to dictators abroad make it harder for the U.S. to
brush it off. Our credibility has been tarnished, and we need to
clearly align ourselves with democrats around the globe to restore
it. Dissidents worldwide have long looked to the United States for
inspiration. Now we must look to them.Editor’s letter
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