In a brand new episode of “The Day by day” podcast, Michael Crowley, a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Occasions, discusses the case of Brittney Griner, the American W.N.B.A. megastar who has been detained in Russia since February.

“I’m terrified I may well be right here without end,” she wrote in a contemporary letter to President Biden.

The White Space vowed to make use of “each and every instrument” to carry Ms. Griner again to the US, however organizing her liberate is a difficult proposition, difficult no longer least through Washington’s smash with Moscow over the battle in Ukraine.