Navalny’s Death Sheds Light on the Moral Rot of the American Right

Alexei Navalny didn’t simply die. He wasn’t just murdered. He was tortured to death.

It didn’t happen on the rack or mid-beating, but Vladimir Putin—who had tried to eliminate him before—slowly killed Navalny all the same.

Putin sent the Russian dissident and anti-corruption activist to the gulag with the aim of grinding him down with hard labor, isolation, hunger, and shabby medical care until he died. Russia’s claims that he died from “sudden death syndrome,” even if true, change nothing, given that being poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent (2020) and thrown into an Arctic labor camp (2023) presumably increases one’s chances of falling prey to SDS.