These are the key events on day 1,176 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is where things stand on Thursday, May 15: Fighting A Russian missile strike targeted Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy, killing at least three people, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday. Governor of Kherson, Oleksandr Prokudin, said that on Wednesday until early Thursday, about 35 areas, including the city of Kherson, were under Russian drone “terror”...

In 2014, I was teaching English to undergraduate freshers at a university in Massachusetts. A student in class, behind on his work, grew angry with a new assignment we were working on. He picked up a chair and threw it past an aisle of students and across the room. He then sat down as if nothing had happened. The chair did not strike anyone, but several students had...