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Which Prospects Could the Phillies Trade at the Deadline?
The MLB Trade Deadline sits just a month away, and rumors are already beginning to swirl. From players who could be traded to what contending teams will be looking for, there’s lots of excitement this time of year. The Phillies are currently sitting three games behind the Braves for the NL East lead and half […] The post Which Prospects Could the Phillies Trade at the Deadline? appeared first on The Lead.
Atlanta Braves announce wave of roster moves during Mets series
The Atlanta Braves are doing a lot of roster shuffling during their series with the New York Mets.
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Mets play the Braves looking to end road slide
New York Mets (36-53, fifth in the NL East) vs. Atlanta Braves (52-35, first in the NL East) Atlanta; Sunday, 12:30 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Nolan McLean (5-5, 3.78 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, 113 strikeouts); Braves: Martin Perez (6-5, 3.27 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 61 strikeouts) LINE: Braves -198, Mets +161; over/under is 8 runs BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets will attempt to end their three-game road slide in a matchup with the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta has a 27-16 record in home games and a 52-35 record overall.
MLB All-Star rosters announced, with Dodgers, Braves and Phillies tied for most players named
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will start at first base despite having, so far, the worst season of his career.
Braves look for much-needed series win behind Chris Sale
The Braves will look to back Chris Sale to secure a series win, who they can expect another strong start from.
Taylor Swift fans turn out in small numbers for MSG wedding
Only a few brave Taylor Swift fans lined the hot NYC sidewalks outside the arena where she and Travis Kelce reportedly were tying the knot.
Former NL MVP will continue his career, signs with Braves
The Atlanta Braves have made a veteran addition as they look to stay atop the National League playoff race, signing former National League MVP Andrew McCutchen to bolster their organizational outfield depth. McCutchen, who began the season with the Texas…
Braves sign Andrew McCutchen to MiLB deal
It is a no-risk signing by Atlanta as they look to add options at the end of their roster.
Atlanta Braves See Multiple Key Developments in Win Over Cardinals
Ozzie Albies homered and Braves pitching held St. Louis to two hits as Atlanta evened the series with a 5-1 win Wednesday night.
Talking across Michigan's political divide
Braver Angels of Washtenaw County is helping Michiganders talk across politics, and their advice for healing starts small.
MLB Power Rankings: Are the Phillies ready to make a declaration on the NL East?
The Phillies have surged into the top five at the same time the Braves are struggling
Why Atlanta Braves are Suddenly in Trouble in NL East
Will the Braves still win the NL East?
NBC Announces Plans For Special 'Star-Spangled Sunday'
NBC is having a special "Star-Spangled Sunday" broadcast next weekend. Next Sunday is July 5, 2026. It's a very special Fourth of July weekend this year. It's America's 250th birthday. NBC and Peacock will be airing all 15 MLB games on Sunday, July 5. Two games - Mets-Braves and Padres-Dodgers - ...
Rafael Devers stays silent after loud night at plate in Giants' win vs. Braves
Rafael Devers is back to not talking, even after two majestic homers in the San Francisco Giants' win on Saturday at Oracle Park.
6/27 Gamethread: Giants vs. Braves
Logan Webb vs. Bryce Elder.
‘All My Children’ Alum’s Mysterious Health Crisis Prompts Plea From Friends and Costars
Marcy Walker is leaning on her All My Children and Santa Barbara family as she battles a private health issue. The 64-year-old former soap star’s friends, Melissa Braverman and Johanna Humphries, laun...
Braves blow another one in 7-6 loss to Padres
A wild night at Petco Park was capped off by a walk-off single by way of Manny Machado as the Braves fell to the Padres, 7-6, in 10 innings. This is a bad baseball team at the moment. The second inning was a doozy for both sides. The Braves loaded the bases and cashed in […]
Potential Atlanta Braves-Tarik Skubal Trade Gets Reality Check
Will the Braves trade for Tarik Skubal?
Atlanta Braves News: Tarik Skubal, Drake Baldwin, More
Frustrating results continue for the Braves.
TST Images: Padres defeat Braves, 1-0, at Petco Park
SAN DIEGO - The Padres defeated the Braves, 1-0, at Petco Park on June 22, 2026.
Machado homers, King dominates as Padres shutout Braves
The Sporting Tribune's Fernando Ramirez writes that pitcher Michael King has a bounce back outing while Manny Machado homers to beat a talented Atlanta Braves team.
Braves offense lifeless again in loss to Padres
The Braves offense was lifeless against Michael King and the San Diego bullpen on Monday night, losing 1-0 to drop their second game in a row. It was more of the same for Grant Holmes, who labored through 4 2/3 innings. He hung a slider to struggling Manny Machado in the fourth inning that was […]
Palmetto Sports Daily: USA moving on in World Cup, Braves pick up big series win
On the latest episode of Palmetto Sports Daily, the crew talks about the latest happenings at the World Cup and recap a big series win for the Braves.
Brewers' Gasser 'definitely confident' he is ready for more success
Gasser gave up two runs in six innings in the 9-4 win over the Atlanta Braves.
Braves drop Brewers series finale
The Brewers won this battle, but the Braves won the war…for now
Ha-Seong Kim returns to Braves lineup in series finale
The Atlanta Braves are running it back for the sweep against the Milwaukee Brewers on this Father’s Day Sunday. The only batter on the Braves’ side who’s had experience against the Brewers’ Robert Gasser is Joey Bart, who’ll be batting seventh in the lineup. For the Brewers, Brice Turang has had his fair share of […]
Game Discussion: Milwaukee Brewers (45-29) @ Atlanta Braves (48-27)
Brewers look to avoid sweep on Father’s Day
Game Discussion: Milwaukee Brewers (45-28) @ Atlanta Braves (47-27)
Kyle Harrison and the Brewers look to bounce back against Chris Sale and the Braves
The Worst Trades The Braves Have Ever Made
The Atlanta Braves have a long and storied history. They franchise has won five World Series in five different decades. And they’ve made a lot of big trades. Some have worked wonders in the quest for a championship. Some have backfired miserably. Here are the four worst trades in Atlanta Braves ...
Where to watch Milwaukee Brewers vs. Atlanta Braves: Live stream, start time, TV channel, odds for Friday, June 19
Jacob Misiorowski and the Brewers start a three-game series against the Braves.
Braves come into matchup with the Brewers on losing streak
The Atlanta Braves will try to break their three-game skid when they take on the Milwaukee Brewers
PIRATES TRADE: Joey Bart to Braves for Hunter Stratton
The Pirates have swung a trade with the Braves, acquiring relief pitcher Hunter Stratton in exchange for catcher Joey Bart. […] The post PIRATES TRADE: Joey Bart to Braves for Hunter Stratton appeared first on Pittsburgh Baseball Now.
Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Atlanta Braves
Crew hits road to take on NL East-leading Braves
Braves vs. Giants June 17 Game 2: Chat and Discussion
JR Ritchie vs. Carson Whisenhunt to conclude a long day for the Braves
Braves' Ronald Acuña Jr. Faces Extended Recovery from Hamstring Injury
Atlanta Braves manager Walt Weiss shared an update on Ronald Acuña Jr.’s injury before Wednesday’s game against the San Francisco Giants.
Braves’ Ha-Seong Kim Facing Backlash During Giants Game
Atlanta Braves shortstop Ha-Seong Kim is facing backlash.
MLB power rankings: Dodgers, Braves and Brewers make up all-NL top 3, followed by Yankees and Rays
Drake Baldwin returns to the lineup as Braves face Giants
The Braves have had the worst catcher production in MLB since Baldwin was injured. His return is a huge boost.
What is looksmaxxing?
A Q&A with Dr. Bravender discussing what looksmaxxing is. Along with the true dangers of it, what parents should know, and when to intervene.
Braves receive exciting Drake Baldwin All-Star fan voting results
This is a great sign for Drake Baldwin's All-Star candidacy.
Braves reporter sounds alarm on worst-case scenario for Spencer Strider's elbow injury
The Atlanta Braves are now likely going to be without Spencer Strider for quite some time, maybe even the season. His doctor he will be seeing suggest elbow surgery is on the way.
In Retrospect: Poland, Russia, Europe
In April I spent a few days with Zryw, a Polish non-profit organization that recruits young people to enter politics and public life. Their aim is to build a new generation of civic leaders in Poland. I’ve followed their evolution from the beginning; my son is one of the founders. (“Zryw” means “impulse” or “burst of speed” in Polish). Julie Chmielewska, one of Zryw’s leaders, interviewed me at the event. Here is the conversation, lightly edited for grammar and context: Julia Chmielewska: Assuming that culture shapes institutions, could we conclude that some cultures are more prone to authoritarianism? Anne Applebaum: I don’t think so. Every culture, every nation, and every country has the potential for change. When we look at history, we can see that nations do change. Poland has changed, for example, from the 1980s to today. There’s a completely different mentality here than the one I encountered when I first visited, in 1988. The current generation sees the world through a different frame. So no, I don’t believe that certain nations are doomed to authoritarianism, or to anything. Of course, there are political and cultural traditions, but they can always be challenged. JC: So do you think there’s something intrinsic in human nature that pushes people to democracy, freedom? AA: I think there is something in human nature, a deep instinct, that pushes people towards freedom, yes. People who live in authoritarian countries – and I’ve heard this from them over and over again – sooner or later find themselves angered by a feeling of helplessness. They can see the unfairness of crooked courts, irrational political decisions. They naturally dislike the fact that somebody has all the power while they have none. In those circumstances, people who have no political background at all sometimes are politicized just by that frustration. I’m thinking of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, for example, who was a Belarusian housewife, until the circumstances of her husband’s arrest forced her to become a politician. I met a woman who is a Uyghur from China, and who had come to live in Turkey. After several of her family members were arrested, she too was propelled into a political role. These kinds of experiences make people interested in democracy or political reform, even if they thought they didn’t care. I also think that the opposite is true: some people instinctively prefer homogeneity, order, hierarchy. They don’t like the confrontation of opinions or the noise of debate, and they lean towards a single leader or a unified regime. I think that most of modern history is shaped by the clash between those two different sides of human nature. JC: Which force do you find more powerful today? AA: I think they both have a lot of power and there’s no way of predicting who wins. Even in countries that seem very shut off or stuck in an authoritarian system can change. We’ve seen that happen. And vice versa, I think democracies can also begin to fail and slide into authoritarianism. So it’s very important not to be complacent in either direction. JC: I want to go into your history and your experiences. You’ve lived in Russia during a time of incredible change in the late 80s, and then you came back to do research in post-Soviet Russia. AA: I was a student in Russia just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. I then traveled and worked there extensively in the 1990s, and I met people who really were full of hope. They hoped that Russia could become a democracy, or at least a place that guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of the press. These weren’t ideas that came from Washington. Although now the narrative in the Kremlin is different, I met many people who were working towards exactly that kind of transformation. A friend of mine ran a series of seminars – once a year, and then later several times a year, in cities all over Russia – designed to get people to discuss politics in new ways. She invited young politicians and journalists, as well as foreigners. I went to many of them, in Moscow as well as Volgograd and Novosibirsk. Over two decades, hundreds of people came to these seminars, and all of them wanted Russia to be different. I remain convinced that many Russians still want Russia to be different. It’s just that the old system, in the form of Putin, a representative of that system, returned. The KGB reimposed their power. And this wasn’t because of something to do with culture, this was to do with money and politics, and who was in charge. JC: You’ve partially answered my question... I wanted to ask whether that excitement of the 1990s was an exception from the Russian historical norm which has been rather authoritarian? AA: Of course, if you look at the history of Russia since the 18th century, there have always been liberal groups, reformers and revolutionaries. There were the Decembrists, in the early 19th century, and the rural populists later on, who tried to organize the peasantry. A significant group of liberal Russians appeared at the turn of the 20th century, people like the father of the writer Vladimir Nabokov, who was a Russian politician before the revolution. These groups were small in number, but sometimes had a broader significance. The Russian dissident movement in the 1950s and 1960s actually invented the modern human rights movement. It was their idea to hold the leaders of the Soviet Union accountable for the language they used, to remind them of the treaties they had signed and the promised they had made. They created the Helsinki group, for example, that held Soviet leadership to the language of the Helsinki Treaty, which formally ended the Second World War and which contained guarantees of human rights, at least on paper. That idea spread to Eastern Europe, and similar tactics were used here in Poland. (Benjamin Nathans recently wrote a great book about the Soviet dissidents, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause) JC: But seemingly, even if they do ever get power, they could never hold on to it. AA: We don’t know, because they have never really had power. But in any case, we also don’t know what will happen in the future. There is no reason to assume that Russia will forever be condemned to totalitarianism. Even during the first fifteen years of Putin’s regime there was some form of democratic politics. Only when the full-scale war began did he bring everything to an end: he shut down all remaining independent organizations and killed his most important opponent, Alexi Navalny. But does that mean he is popular, that he enjoys legitimacy? Even now, we don’t really know what Russians think about him, or about the war. There is no way of doing real polling in Russia because nobody will answer an independent pollster over the phone. JC: Do you think that the flock of young people, especially young men, who fled Russia after the start of the war represent a continuation of liberal movements that refuse to partake in the authoritarian state, or do you think they are moving for the sake of self-preservation – “I don’t want to go to the army, so I leave”? AA: I’m sure it’s both. I actually know many people who left Russia for political reasons either in the very last years before the war, or else just after the war began. JC: And do you see a change in the young generation versus the old one that have fled? AA: It’s hard for me to say because the people who I know were mostly already politicized. I do know some younger people who left, but most of them were already either active in the opposition, or working as journalists. Many of them very self-consciously think of themselves as maintaining Russian culture abroad, just as in the 20th century the Soviet dissidents or the anti-communist White Russians once thought of themselves as people who maintained the true Russian culture, outside of Bolshevik Russia. JC: Let’s move on to Poland. One of your first experiences with Poland was reporting on Margaret Thatcher’s first state visit, in the autumn of 1988. You followed her around the farmers’ market. AA: She was making a symbolic gesture. She wanted to welcome free markets, but the only one she could really visit was the farmers’ market at Hala Mirowska. JC: And I want to talk about this area because today you can look out of any window in that district, Mirów, and see rows and rows of skyscrapers. How does it feel to see a country built from the ground in such a short time, both politically and economically? AA: You know, when you’re living in a period of dramatic change, it’s always hard to know whether the change is positive or negative. The transformation in Poland created winners and losers, as well as new classes of people, new political movements of different kinds. At the time, it sometimes just felt like turbulence. Now, we can look back at the 1990s and early 2000s in Poland and see in retrospect that the country was headed in towards prosperity and European integration. In around 2009 or 2010, I remember speaking to a woman who worked cleaning government offices, and who asked me if her daughter should study in Amsterdam or in London. This seemed to me to be a real transformation, and it happened very fast: within a few years, Poles stopped feeling like second-class Europeans, and a generation of younger Poles appeared who had no qualms about crossing borders. JC: We again live in turbulent times. Do you think we’re heading towards positive outcomes? AA: I can’t make predictions, because everything that happens tomorrow depends on what people do today. Also, history doesn’t have a trajectory. It doesn’t move in a particular direction. You only think it does afterwards. As I said, you can look afterwards at Poland in the 1990s and you could say this was a period of great progress. But not everybody at the time saw that. Sometimes people are very wrong about a given country’s trajectory. I remember people writing about Ukraine in the 1990s, about how dangerous it was that Ukraine was independent, that this was going to be an anti-semitic state, that Ukrainian nationalism was going to come back... and although you can say many bad things about Ukraine, the country made many bad choices, actually it became a pretty tolerant state which now has a Jewish president and until recently a Muslim defense minister. JC: In the 1990s Poland’s and Ukraine’s GDP were roughly similar. Ukraine was even a bit richer. So the starting point was similar for both of these countries, but they’ve turned out very, very differently. Even if we stop in 2014. Why do you think Ukraine “chose East”? Was it external influence? AA: No, I think Ukraine was in a different position. First of all, central and eastern Ukraine had been part of the Soviet Union since the 1920s, and had therefore experienced a longer period of occupation, repression, Sovietization and even Russification. Ukraine did not have, as Poland did, an alternative elite: a large cadre of economists and politicians, who already had some experience in opposition politics and in independent thinking. In Poland, the transformative finance minister, Leszek Balcerowicz, had already thought about how an economy might be decentralized before he took office. We can argue about how successful he was, but at least he was prepared to try something new. In Ukraine, people weren’t prepared. For one, there hadn’t been much space even for an illegal opposition in the previous couple of decades. Ukraine was also in many ways still emerging from colonial occupation. For the previous couple of centuries, many of the most capable Ukrainians had moved to Russia, and the first generation of leaders in independent Ukraine tended to be former Soviet apparatchiks. They didn’t immediately seek to become closer to western Europe. Instead, they looked for some kind of economic and political “third way” and an accomodation with Russia. Ukraine became stuck in this position, half-in, half-out and became pretty profoundly corrupt. JC: The Polish alternative elite had a vision of where they wanted the country to go. I think the general perception now is that this vision ends with the next election, right? Is this a natural process of gaining power? AA: Their vision, and it was shared by the time by politicians who now call themselves both left and right, was that Poland should join the EU and NATO, as fast as possible. My husband (Radek Sikorski) was in the very first government that said it wanted to join NATO. At the time this was taken very badly in Washington: the demand for NATO membership absolutely came from Poland, not from the US. But even then, in the early 1990s, many Poles already understood that the Russian sphere of influence would grow once again, that it was important to become part of the transatlantic alliance and an integrated Europe as fast as possible: NATO, the EU, the Council of Europe, all of the trading and security alliances. That consensus lasted through several different governments and over many years, even governments containing former communists. For twenty years, right, left and center disagreed about many things, but they all agreed on the direction that the country should go. In retrospect, that consensus created the basis for prosperity in Poland. JC: And regarding the Polish-Ukrainian relations. We know that antagonisms, e.g. the myth of Wołyń [a massacre of Poles that took place in what is now Western Ukraine, in 1943] are increasingly used in Polish political discourse today. In Ukraine, nationalist historians make heroes out of UPA, the Ukrainian revolutionary army, which is held responsible for this tragedy. Where do you see a start for burying the hatchet? Is the reconciliation of our nations possible? AA: So here’s a strange thing: For more than a decade after they both gained independence, Poland and Ukraine participated in a number of projects that were designed to solve exactly these kinds of Polish-Ukrainian differences. Books were published that were jointly written by Polish and Ukrainian historians, monuments were built. These projects were successful: If you’d asked me this question in 2010, I would have said that there are no real historical issues between Poland and Ukraine, that the two countries had mostly reconciled. For a number of reasons, this began to shift. In Poland, children and grandchildren of victims of the Wołyń massacre felt their tragedy hadn’t been fully recognized. In Ukraine, nationalist groups wanted the UPA partisans who had fought against the Soviet Union recognized for their heroism, despite the fact that some in this broad and not well-defined group were also linked to Wołyń. In both eastern Poland and western Ukraine, the memory of the ethnic cleansing that took place there in the late 1940s - Poles were moved West, Ukrainians East - to accomodate new borders has left feelings of displacement and bitterness. The wave of Ukrainian immigration, which started before the war, may have provoked some of this. But don’t underestimate the role played by Russia, which has always wanted to create discord between Poland and Ukraine, and pumps out propaganda to that effect in both countries. Vandalism on both sides of the border, damage done to cemeteries and monuments, is sometimes carried out by provacateurs working for Russia, just to create bad feelings. The Polish-Ukrainian conflict also hides a different reality: although there are real grievances and bad memories, the truth is that the biggest tragedies both nations experienced in the twentieth century were inflicted by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. That should unite these two countries, not divide them. JC: This week (19.04.2026 – Ed.) in Hungary we saw that using historical narratives to create grievance has no longer worked. Are you optimistic about the direction after Orban’s loss? AA: The Hungarian election was really important because it shows that people can actually resist powerful, dominant propaganda. The ruling party Fidesz controlled all of the TV, 90% of the newspapers, the constitutional court, the bureaucracy... and yet people had the nerve to vote against it and resist it. It’s also an important election because Hungary created a huge network of well-funded think tanks and foundations that were funding other far right groups and projects. So that loss is going to have a knock-on effect in other places too, maybe even in Poland. JC: What you’ve said about resisting propaganda reminds me of one of the interviews you did about talking to Russians in the post-Soviet era who claimed that people knew that the system was lying. Why do people choose to believe in these regimes anyway? AA: Because it’s useful. Stephen Kotkin, an American historian, once described how people would learn how to “speak Bolshevik”: It was just a language that you needed to use in order to get by in society. If you didn’t talk the way the regime wanted you to talk, then you might have problems, or lose your job, or your kids would not get into university. It was a way of getting along. Communist Poland was similar, at least in the early years. When I was writing a book about the Sovietization of Eastern Europe after World War II, I met a lot of people who wanted to talk a lot about the war, when many of them had done really heroic things. But almost nobody wanted to talk about the decade afterwards, between 1945 and 1956. This was when you had the short period of terror, violence and Polish Stalinism. To stay safe, people felt the need to just go along with what others were saying, or stay out of politics, or use communist jargon without necessarily believing it. I don’t judge them for it, and I wouldn’t describe all of those people as collaborators. It’s easy to feel moral certainty in retrospect, because we know that communism ended. But if you were living in 1949, it might not have been clear to you that communism was going to end. In very repressive societies, maybe about 10% of people who are really evil – collaborators, torturers. Maybe 10% of people are really brave and who find ways to resist. And then around 80% of people have kids, they have parents, they have to have jobs and they’ve had to get through it somehow. Strange though it may sound, I’ve found that the work I did on that book is now very useful in explaining some of what’s going on in the United States today. There are plenty of members of the Republican Party in Congress who know perfectly well that Donald Trump says many things that aren’t true. But they avoid criticizing him because it’s inconvenient, because they would get in trouble, because someone would attack them on the internet. So actually you don’t even need mass terror to get people to conform. JC: Is Gen Z reinventing agency? AA: We’ll see. In any generation you can find groups of people who want agency. If you live in a society that’s unfair, for example where a tiny number of people have captured most of the wealth, then at a certain point people rebel. This is always easier for younger people, who have you have less to lose. The question now is how the internet will affect the relationships between citizens and the state, and how it will change organizations. The “Twitter revolutions” people spoke about as early as 2008-9, mass protests organized online, have often proved to be very superficial. Although you can easily join something just by clicking, the work of creating a real movement requires physical participation. Successful mass movements of the past, for example the Civil Rights movement in the United States, were built by people who had spent many years together. They had participated in non-violent workshops together. They practiced and prepared. Just using the you can get everybody to show up at a certain moment, but then when the protest is broken up, nothing happens. It’s also true that the repressive regimes have more recently learned how to use the internet to undermine leaders and movements. Most of all, they now understand how to make people cynical. The form of propaganda that most modern authoritarians use - and I think the Russians really pioneered this - deploys sneering cynicism. Instead of praising the rulers, the regime propagandists mock the opposition movement leadership for being supposedly corrupt or sexually degenerate, with the goal of undermining any kind of idealism. JC: MAGA grew on the internet? AA: MAGA is a real grassroots movement. They had symbols, red hats, they showed up at rallies. But you’re right that the cynicism, the sarcasm and the distrust that the movement embodies came originally from the internet, and this is different. Fifty years ago, most European political parties had a social base in real organizations, in trade unions for Social Democrats, in church groups for Christian Democrats. As people stopped going to church and as the trade unions became smaller, the social base of these parties disappeared. Now people who wouldn’t have known one another in the past meet on the internet and create new movements, many of which don’t last. JC: Is history ending? Going in stale circles? AA: History never ends. In truth, human beings want contradictory things at the same time: order and freedom, stability and change. These things are never resolved, and when a society swings too far in one direction, people always push it the other way. But each time that happens, the result is different. Certainly it is true that we are now in a period when old philosophers and ideas from the 1930s are undergoing a revival. Carl Schmitt, who was a philosopher who was very influential on the Nazis, is back as an influence on both the far left and the far right, once again inspiring people to think that all politics has to be existential, that all politics is about defining and defeating enemies. In the US, some are also bringing back dominionism, the idea that we need a Christian and not a secular state. It’s also true that we are living through a more fundamental shift. The old left-right divide, which was mostly about the size of the state, is much less important now. Instead, we are arguing about more fundamental things: what are our rights, what protects our freedom. Or how much power do we want to give small elites, versus how much power to give ordinary people. In America a small group of very wealthy people now control information, because they control the social media platforms and AI, which means they determine what people will read and learn. Finding a way to preserve preserve zones of autonomy and independent thinking, this is going to be the main task for the next generation. JC: What is the one book that a person interested in Central Europe should read? AA: You could read my book “Iron Curtain: the Crushing of Eastern Europe” which tells the story of how the Soviet Union imposed its culture on the region. Or read Tim Snyder’s history of the region, “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus 1569-1999.” And everyone should read “The Captive Mind” by Czesław Miłosz, which describes exactly the phenomenon we were talking about: why do people collaborate? I joined Scott Galloway and the brilliant Fiona Hill in a discussion about the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the future of global power, and what these conflicts reveal about America's role in the world. Scott told us that this was the 400th edition of his podcast, which is quite a number: My friend Francesco Chiamulera runs a brilliant series of literary events, Una Colline di Libri, A Hill of Books, in the Prosecco Hills, a region of vineyards and elegant hill towns in the Veneto, north of Venice. We did an event in Vittorio Veneto and also drove and biked around the countryside. Buy Autocracy Inc Buy Iron Curtain Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe
Braves look to stop slide in game against the Mets
Atlanta Braves (45-24, first in the NL East) vs. New York Mets (31-38, fifth in the NL East) New York; Saturday, 4:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Martin Perez (4-3, 3.02 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 47 strikeouts); Mets: Sean Manaea (1-1, 5.02 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 45 strikeouts) LINE: Mets -113, Braves -106; over/under is 8 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves head into the matchup with the New York Mets as losers of three straight games. New York has gone 17-17 in home games and 31-38 overall.
Braves Make Spencer Strider Announcement After Leaving Mets Game
Atlanta Braves right-hander Spencer Strider left Friday's game against the New York Mets.
Mauricio Dubon leading off for Braves’ opener at Mets
Another leadoff hitter tryout with Ronnie sidelined
Enthusiastic reviews for Broadway’s first Entertainment Zone
Those who braved Thursday’s heat say Redwood City’s new downtown experience is worth a visit
Drake Baldwin Set to Begin Minor League Rehab Assignment
The Atlanta Braves announce update on their injured catcher.
Braves' Martin Perez: Game postponed due to weather
Braves' Martin Perez: Game postponed due to weather
Braves versus White Sox rain delay updates
It’s raining in Chicago, y’all. The weather has not been conducive to playing baseball most of the afternoon in Chicago. Here’s a forecast. Looks decent at 10pm and it appears that MLB wants this game to happen and happen in front of 25 people. Stay tuned for updates.
Switch 2 is accidentally getting the best looking Final Fantasy game
Final Fantasy Resonance goes full Octopath Traveler in a new Switch game that's excitingly being compared to Brave Exvius
We're getting our first HD-2D Final Fantasy game, and it's based on the now-shuttered mobile title Brave Exvius
Rain on your parade.
Atlanta Braves News: Trade Thoughts, 2026 Draft Prospect Rankings, More
Plenty of Trade Talks Ahead
Political group launches anti-Trump ad campaign in Nebraska
“Home of the Brave” launched the ad campaign Monday, featuring video and billboard advertisements on how President Donald Trump’s policies hurt affordability.
Offense can't find clutch hit as Pirates get swept by Braves
ATLANTA — Pitching only more than an hour from where he attended high school at North Oconee, Bubba Chandler was cruising. He retired 13...
Pirates eager to continue power streak in clash vs. Braves
Pirates eager to continue power streak in clash vs. Braves
Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place
Pay more to get less.
Braves' Chris Sale: Takes fourth loss Thursday
Braves' Chris Sale: Takes fourth loss Thursday
The Braves Should Avoid the Tarik Skubal Deadline Trap
Tarik Skubal is the kind of pitcher who makes a perfectly reasonable front office start spouting bad ideas. Which, honestly, makes sense. Skubal is one of Major League Baseball’s best left-handed aces, a two-time reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, and one of the few starters in baseball who could make a great team …
Braves linked to trade idea for Giants' $90M Cy Young finalist, Gold Glover to pair with Chris Sale
The Atlanta Braves are looking to add a starter and have been since the offseason. This deal would give them someone who would make their rotation better for now and October.
Braves' Matt Olson: Three hits in win
Braves' Matt Olson: Three hits in win
Braves Minor League Recap: Tate Southisene, Conor Essenburg Flex Power
Southisene’s OPS rises to .949 after homering and hitting a triple
Reds star Elly De La Cruz exits with hamstring pain
Cincinnati Reds star shortstop Elly De La Cruz left Sunday's game against the Braves with right hamstring tightness.
Braves ace Chris Sale handled his business in win over Red Sox
With Sale pitching five solid innings without his best command, the Braves slammed the reeling Sox, in a Fenway Park matinee on Thursday.
MLB two-month grades for every NL team: Mets among two F's, top three separate themselves
The Dodgers, Braves and Brewers have all earned A's one-third of the way into the season, but some should-be contenders have struggled
'Lost World' of Gravitational Waves Reveals The Origins of Black Holes
A brave new world of black hole science.
Bob Horner, College Baseball Hall of Famer who starred for Braves, dies at 68
Horner made a name for himself at Arizona State and then instantly translated that success to the majors in Atlanta.
Former Braves star Bob Horner passes away at age 68
Another influential Braves figure passes away in 2026
A ruse, a brave gamble or a fantasy? Why Trump’s most puzzling Iran move yet is unlikely to work
If Donald Trump’s search for a way out of the Iran war was not difficult enough, he’s added a new goal that threatens to vastly complicate the Middle East’s already splintered politics.
Nats rely on biggest weakness to beat greatest foe
At 27-27, the Washington Nationals are a third of the way through the 2026 season, and the team has to be feeling good about where they are after taking two of three from the division-leading Atlanta Braves. The Nats offense has carried the team for the majority of the year, but the series turned ...
Ronald Acuña Jr. DHing for Braves-Nationals series finale
A day of relative rest for Ronnie.
Atlanta Braves’ Walt Weiss Shares AJ Smith-Shawver Injury Update
Atlanta Braves manager Walt Weiss had an update on AJ Smith-Shawver's injury.
Last Night In Baseball: Brewers Take Game 1 Of 3-Game Series Against Dodgers
The Brewers took Game 1 of a three-game series against the Dodgers, the Guardians beat the Phillies on one swing, the Braves walked it off and plenty more from Friday's MLB action.
Washington Nationals vs Atlanta Braves Game Thread
Follow along as the Nats kick off a series in Atlanta that could be complicated by weather
Drivers Remember Kyle Busch For His Bravery, Kindness and Tenacity
Drivers from NASCAR and INDYCAR detailed their memories of Kyle Busch.
Big science and uncanny prescience: Laurie Anderson’s greatest songs
Forty years since her pioneering concert film Home of the Brave, and ahead of a European tour, we count down the best of a surprisingly poppy avant garde catalogue
Will the Braves regret parting ways with Jonah Heim?
Battle of the probably negative fWARs!
Braves eager to see Ronald Acuna Jr. hit against Marlins
Ronald Acuna Jr. will return to the Atlanta starting lineup on Tuesday when the visiting Braves play the Miami Marlins in the second game of a four-game series.
The Adventures of Elliot’s development team has quietly been mastering the modern minigame, and its latest action-RPG once again shows us how it’s done
Coming from Square Enix's Team Asano, The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales carries on a trend we saw in Bravely Default, Octopath Traveler, and beyond
MLB Power Rankings: Why disappointing teams seem to be the story of the year
Meanwhile, the Braves won't let go of No. 1 and the White Sox won't stop winning
Story to be placed on injured list by Red Sox (report)
Trevor Story is expected to be placed on the injured list before the Red Sox's game against the Braves on Saturday night, according to a report from MassLive.com's Chris Cotillo. The club has not confirmed the news. The 33-year-old shortstop is believed to have been dealing with a groin issue
Will Mauricio Dubon be a Brave in 2027?
Though he’s only been in games for a few weeks, it’d already feel weird without him
Atlanta Braves first team to reach 30 wins this season
The Braves improved MLB’s top record to 30-13 with another thrilling win Wednesday night, scoring three runs in the eighth inning to beat the Chicago Cubs 4-1.
IAM District 725 Business Representative Honored for Military Bravery
The USO (United Service Organizations Inc.) has recognized U.S. Air National Guard Master Sgt. Jon Osterhout, an IAM District 725 Business Representative, for his extraordinary service and bravery. Osterhout was honored for voluntarily accepting a high-risk, short-notice deployment to Saudi Arabia in 2025, demonstrating exceptional dedication to his country.
‘Brave Knight’: Animated Musical Pic Sets Five; Lookbook Entertainment Selling At Cannes
EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Agudong (Lilo & Stitch, Ripple), Skylar Astin (Pitch Perfect, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist), Meg Donnelly (Zombies, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series), Jordan Fisher (Had...
TST Images: Braves defeat Dodgers, 7-2, at Dodgers Stadium
LOS ANGELES - Atlanta Braves defeat The Los Angeles Dodgers, 7-2, on May 10th, 2026 at Dodger Stadium and The Sporting Tribune's Jordan Carroll was there to capture the following images.
Dodgers Drop Series Against Braves
Justin Wrobleski did everything to keep the Los Angeles Dodgers afloat, but it was no use. Atlanta Braves beat Dodgers 7-2.