The right-wing embrace of Vladimir Putin as a dictator and enemy of the freedoms Americans hold dear is a stunning rebuke to decades of struggle against Soviet tyranny
Mike BurkeApril 25, 2025
Most of the world still looks to the United States for global leadership, particularly compared with China and Russia
Simon MaassApril 5, 2025
Putin invaded Ukraine not out of any material reason like economic interest or force projection, but of the spiritual conviction that Russia cannot be whole without Kyiv
Jozef Andrew KoscMarch 25, 2025
Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine as soon as possible and on his terms. Will Putin accept an American-brokered peace or continue fighting?
Jong Eun LeeMarch 21, 2025
Harry Truman sought to end the Korean War years before it settled into a bloody stalemate characterized by attritional warfare. Could Trump be attempting something similar with Ukraine?
Tim MiloschMarch 12, 2025
A new novel (and movie) about Vladimir Putin’s chief spin-doctor explain how the true battle between Ukraine and Russia is not one of warring armies, but of competing narratives
Steven TuckerMarch 4, 2025
The United States never legally recognized the Soviet occupation of the Baltics, and neither should America recognize Russia’s annexation of eastern Ukraine
Michael C. DiCiannaMarch 3, 2025
A “peace at all costs” attitude belies that an unjust, strategically unsound peace that just kicks the can down the road will be no peace at all
J. Daryl CharlesFebruary 28, 2025
Ending conflicts is all well and good, but only if the peace is durable, reasonable, and within the national interest
Mike CotéFebruary 27, 2025