JOSHUA YAFFA is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, where his reporting centers on Russian politics and society. He has been a fellow at New America and taught at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. In 2021, his book Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia won the Orwell Prize.
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