The Biden-Putin summit was a diplomatic nothingburger
There were no breakthroughs — but at least, by Putin’s account at least, there was ‘no hostility’ between the two sides
Russia
Wednesday
Can Joe Biden get real about Russia?
US hostility to Putin may be hardwired. But a little American humility could go a long way
Tuesday
Joe Biden’s summer vacation
He’s going for a nice ride across the big, big ocean in a very shiny airplane. Weeee!
Monday
Two spies, an explosion, and the new Czech rift with Russia
‘Putin is a murderer,’ read the signs carried by protestors outside the Russian Embassy in Prague on Sunday. On Saturday night, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš stunned the Czech Republic by stating that evidence now links Russian GRU secret agents to a massive explosion which killed two people at an arms depot near the Moravian village of Vrbětice in 2014. Czech Minister of the Interior and acting Foreign Minister Jan Hamáček gave 18 diplomats known to be linked to Russian foreign intelligence 48 hours to leave the country, and compared the situation to the Salisbury poisoning in 2018. The Salisbury parallel was underlined by the announcement of a manhunt for Alexandr
Friday
A tale of two Afghanistan withdrawals
The media has mastered the art of the thinly sourced bombshell — soon followed by the subtle retraction
Monday
Biden is wrong on Putin
Denying that your political enemy has a soul is nothing less than a regression to vulgar racism
Friday
REVEALED: the Pentagon’s amazingly silly anti-Russia meme
‘The graphics may not be shaping adversary behavior’
Saturday
The fight for liberalism
American hegemony in the service of a liberal world order no longer protects our civilization
Thursday
Biden’s Brezhnev vibes
Is the presumptive President-elect the candidate of American stagnation?
Tuesday
Look east, old man
To the Lake is the right kind of Russian interference
Friday
Can you really blame Trump supporters for refusing to accept the election result?
Every institution has been against the President at every turn
Tuesday
Czar quality
Under the czars and the communists, Georgia was where Russians went to party
Monday
Putin needs Xi more than China needs Russia
A special relationship
Tuesday
The Russia probe was mishandled worse than anyone could have imagined
Newly declassified documents tell more of the story
Friday
Back in the USSR
Foraging for mushrooms and the taste of freedom in eastern Europe, 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Friday
China and Russia win from America’s wars
Their strategic aim is to displace the United States from Eurasia
Monday
The ‘Russians’ of Brighton Beach
The attitude of Jewish ‘Russians’ in America toward Russia is goodbye and good luck. But mostly goodbye
Monday
The Russian attempt to swing 2020 for Trump
Election interference produces extraordinary value
Tuesday
Is this the only Catherine the Great review to mention the age gap?
Helen Mirren is 74 years old while the character she plays — at least at the start of the mini-series — is 33 years old
Monday
The age of invective
Nasty, illiberal rhetoric threatens liberal democracy
