In the 1980s, serious people feared World War III and acted to prevent it. Today, our slouch toward World War III is being orchestrated by egotistical sociopaths.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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The Price of a Lost Russia: A Correspondent’s Eulogy
More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the promise of a democratic Russia has given way to something much darker—and far more durable.
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Russia Through a Feminist Lens
Julia Ioffe’s “Motherland,” a much-anticipated memoir and history of Russia, offers an original take on America’s long-time adversary.
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The Courage and Compromises of George P. Shultz
When he died, at the age of 100, in 2021, George P. Shultz was widely hailed as a consummate pragmatist who represented a type of sober conservatism that has been almost entirely eradicated in the modern Republican Party. A charter member of the foreign policy establishment, he occupied four cabinet positions, including secretary of labor […]
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Can the Unity and Sanctions Against Russia Last?
The world has banded together to defend Ukraine. But will we keep the pressure on Putin—and live with higher gas prices—once the shock of the invasion wanes?
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How to Make Russia Bleed
Vladimir Putin must pay a heavy price for his invasion of Ukraine. Here’s how we did that to the Soviets in the 1980s.
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Russia’s Founding Father
A new, definitive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev tells the story of the man most responsible for ending the Cold War.
