Evan Gershkovich Is Finally Coming Home

I have waited four hundred and ninety-one days to write this piece. On Thursday, after a year and a half in Russian jail, my friend Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was freed, along with fifteen other prisoners, in a multinational prisoner exchange with Russia, which received eight prisoners in return. It was the largest such deal since the end of the Cold War, and likely the first to include political dissidents since 1986, when Natan Sharansky, a Soviet human-rights activist who later became an Israeli politician,...