WATCHING TODAY:

What I am watching today:

1. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine plants a bomb under the Russian state: Tatiana Stanovaya writes an aggressive foreign policy combined with tighter repression at home will fuel public discontent.

2. Office occupancy rates across the country are creeping up after a January dip: Across 10 major US cities, it was an average of 31 percent of pre-Covid levels earlier this month, up from 23 percent in early January, according to the security firm Kastle Systems.

3. How to beat Putin with natural gas: Kenneth C. Griffin + Niall Ferguson write America and its allies can wean Europe off its dependence on energy imported from Russia.

4. Marie Colvin death ten years on: 'Terrible things may be happening and they go unreported.'

5. Phil Mickelson and the bleak truth of ‘sportswashing’: Jason Gay writes a golf star brazenly acknowledges the moral trade-off with a problematic partner, and the sports world roils.