Joseph Stalin

America Should Rediscover the Soft Power Potential of Its Music

What made jazz – the quintessential American music – dangerous was not the sound, but the idea behind it: improvisation, spontaneity, individual voice.

In Russian-Occupied Ukraine, You’re Free to Worship Vladimir Putin

The Kremlin’s religious registration rules in occupied Ukraine are intended to snuff out freedom of religion.

Marking Four Years of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Putin Demands Believers in Ukraine Pray His Way

astor Vladimir Ryitkov was leading Sunday mass in Russian-occupied Luhansk, Ukraine when Russian military and police officers burst into his small Baptist church. Armed with assault rifles, “they brusquely...

Letter to the POTUS

Careful, Sir, Putin wants to out-negotiate you like Stalin out-negotiated Roosevelt  

Northern exposure

The Alaska summit revealed Putin’s neo-Soviet goals

Trump’s narrow road to Ukraine peace has three milestones for success — or failure

When it comes to peace in Ukraine, President Donald Trump has said it takes “two to tango” — but while Vladimir Putin continues Russia’s attacks, only Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky looks...

Vladimir the Terrible

Trump needs to make Putin recalculate the costs and benefits of his war

Stalin in the subway

What a statue tells us – and should tell President Trump – about Vladimir Putin

Putin’s love of Stalin should terrify us all

Britain must counteract Kremlin propaganda by portraying the Russian president as a weak leader

Stalin Lives, Truth Dies: Putin Weaponizes History

As statues of Stalin s return to Russia, Putin is rewriting Soviet history to legitimize his war in Ukraine. Can satire expose the truth behind authoritarian mythmaking?

Countering the Oct. 7 deniers

A new report on Hamas’s atrocities offers an impressive counterweight for undecided readers who will encounter the deniers as they seek the truth.

Our Foes Would Fill Doran’s Mideast Vacuum

Michael Doran might be jumping the gun in claiming that Donald Trump is channeling Ronald Reagan in the Middle East (Letters, March 10). We don’t know yet whether the president...

Memo to Trump: Beware the ‘Reverse Teddy’

I was proud to serve the president in his first term. But Trump’s strength in the Western Hemisphere could portend weakness in Europe and Asia in his second, writes Matt Pottinger.

The Great Lie Behind Russia’s Victory Day

Russians believe their nation contributed more than any other to winning World War II. The uncomfortable truth is that Moscow actually started the war in 1939 as Nazi Germany’s ally.

Replacing America

China’s Communists rulers intend to establish a new world order

Murder in the Gulag

Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s only serious rival, has been eliminated

America cannot ignore the Middle East

Despite calls to refocus American grand strategy towards Europe and Asia, events in Israel show that the United States cannot abandon its commitments in the Middle East.

Reading the UNGA tea leaves

America’s enemies and adversaries reveal their intentions

Will the Russia-Ukraine War lead to World War III?

So far, the conflict has remained within manageable bounds for the international community, but the prospect of further conflagration is not far off.