Madeleine Albright was an idealist overpowered by cynics
Her final judgment on Putin may well be proven correct
Ukraine
Wednesday
Volodymyr Zelensky’s sitcom is now as sad as it is funny
Future generations will view it as a historical artifact
How will the battlefield stalemate end in Ukraine?
The big fool here is Putin
Tuesday
What’s the difference between Yemen and Ukraine?
We’ve been brutal towards Russia and tepid towards the Saudis. Why?
Monday
Where Europe ends and the war begins
The violence in Ukraine might seem distant but the political implications for Hungary are very real
Saturday
Time for Turkey to align with the West
Doing business in unstable and undemocratic countries is a huge risk
The reporter who covered up the Ukrainian famine
Now is the time to de-Pulitzer Walter Duranty, who ran cover for the Soviets
Friday
Why the Ukraine war might not end
War never conforms to our desire for the good guys to defeat the bad guys
Thursday
Don’t cancel Russian culture
There’s all the difference in the world between Putin and Tchaikovsky
The problem with that ‘stalled’ Russian convoy
Supposedly it’s run out of gas, but we should beware disinformation in an active war
Angela Merkel’s legacy crumbles
She left Germany toothless and dependent on Russia
Tucker torments a Republican for eighteen minutes over Ukraine
‘Should we send the US military to the Mexican border?’
Make China pay for its quiet support of Putin’s war
Xi is vulnerable to economic pressure
Wednesday
Did the realists underestimate Putin?
Russia’s Ukraine invasion is George W. Bush in Iraq all over again
Zelensky basks in the world’s spotlight
The Ukrainian president folds his country’s struggle for independence into the American saga
Tuesday
The strange ideology that could be driving Putin
Eurasianism, as it’s called, sees a common historical destiny for all the non-Russian peoples of Russia
When the establishment cries treason
Mitt Romney calls Tulsi Gabbard ‘treasonous’ as war becomes an excuse for the lazy
Yes, Putin could use biochemical weapons in Ukraine
An army barbaric enough to ignore the rules of war will not much care what horrors it inflicts
Is Putin nuts?
History shows that labeling foreign leaders as crazy sends us down a slippery slope
Monday
Russia is the West’s great tragedy
We should have brought them in from the cold, not turned up the heat
