How America enfeebled Europe
Uncle Sam’s offer has not been tempting
Cold war
Friday
Will Putin give peace a chance?
He still demands huge chunks of Ukraine and other dramatic concessions
Monday
Europe learns the facts of MAGA life
Trump promotes American ends with bungled means
Friday
Panama celebrates a quarter-century’s ownership of its greatest asset
As tensions grow with China, the geostrategic implications of the canal may be even more significant than they were when Jimmy Carter signed it away
Friday
RNC ends on a high note
Plus: Is Biden facing his last days?
Wednesday
Why Russia is flaunting its ships in the Caribbean
It is all part of a decades-long ‘show the flag’ move, as Russia’s defense ministry puts it
Wednesday
The Americans who defected to North Korea
With the apparently quixotic exception of Travis King last year, defection to the country has all but ended
Thursday
The man who made Reagan
In the Nation’s Service provides a blow-by-blow account of George P. Shultz’s seven years serving Reagan as the nation’s top diplomat
Friday
How the CIA interfered in the Congo
Stuart Reid relates the whole convoluted tale lucidly, conveying the steadily growing atmosphere of confusion and fear
Saturday
Reminders of the Cold War in Vienna and Budapest
Apparently an acquaintance has dubbed me the ‘Kremlinologist of the right’
Following the seam of the Iron Curtain
I met people who risked their lives to escape from east to west
Tuesday
How to win the war that everyone is losing
Europe must be left to police Europe and Asia to police Asia
Wednesday
Why South Africa is cozying up to Russia and China
The country is at a crossroads and must choose between East or West
Wednesday
When the moon brought America together
For me, it all mattered. I saw something unfold, and I felt like a part of it
Friday
South Korea toys with developing nuclear weapons
It didn’t fly in the 1970s, and it won’t fly today
Friday
The myth that Hiroshima was necessary
The ‘we had no choice’ excuse has had twenty-first century consequences
Monday
Berlin as the unreal city
A new book makes you ask, somewhat apprehensively, what will happen there next
Monday
Springtime for Cold War nostalgics
Weariness with, and wariness of, the Cold War was very real and ought to give us pause
Monday
How to turn the tide against Russia
The West has no choice but to wage the new cold war that Putin has begun
Friday
No, China isn’t about to invade Taiwan
The idea that Putin’s incursion into Ukraine sends Beijing a signal simply doesn’t hold up
