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Why the EU Should Sanction Russia’s Patriarch

The Russian Orthodox Church’s sanctification of Russia’s war on Ukraine has met with little retort from Europe.

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.

Death of a Holocaust denier

Over decades, Iran proved itself adept at fertilizing the lies that reside at the heart of anti-Zionist ideology, turning them into common-sense notions among adherents.

Escalation Without Detonation: Russia’s Nuclear Threats

Fears of a renewed arms race are echoing around the world once again, ignited by last month’s expiration of New Start, the last treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenal deployment. This week,...

Marking Four Years of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Russia ‘Trying To Drag Out Negotiations’: No Breakthrough in Latest Geneva Talks To End Ukraine War

Latest Developments Second Day of Negotiations End: The second day of trilateral negotiations in Geneva on February 18 between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States, represented by envoys Steve Witkoff...

How Hollywood can combat Russian influence in Africa

Washington is preparing to “challenge Chinese and Russian economic coercion and exploitation of African countries,” the House Ways and Means Committee said...

Russian Orthodox Propaganda Takes Aim at Patriarch Bartholomew, Calling Him ‘Antichrist in Cassock’

In its ongoing attacks on religious organizations with the potential to erode Moscow’s sway in its former sphere of influence, Russian intelligence is now stooping to demonological name-calling.

Aldrich Ames and the Enemy Within

I had a friend, a Soviet-East Europe Division case officer in the Central Intelligence Agency who served in Moscow in the 1980s. He was extremely well-suited to operations behind the Iron Curtain: He had...

X’s Location Feature Exposes a Real Problem, but Does Not Fix It

A new location transparency feature on X is revealing foreign influence on American discourse just as federal agencies designed to deal with such threats are being dismantled. Toward the end...

Freedom for Iran: Learning From U.S. Support for Polish Anti-Communists in the 1980s

NATO Allies Join Poland in Downing Russian Drones That Entered Polish Airspace During Barrage Against Ukraine

NATO Allies Intercept Russian Drones: NATO forces intercepted more than a dozen armed Russian drones that entered Polish airspace on September 10 during an overnight attack on Ukraine...

Witkoff Meets With Putin as Trump Deadline Approaches, While Russia Withdraws From Missile Pledge It Never Upheld

Latest Developments Meeting With Putin Ahead of Deadline: U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for three hours. Yuri Ushakov, a top Putin aide, said...

Vladimir the Terrible

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

Serbian and Russian Orthodox Churches Unite Against West

As part of Russia’s plan to undermine cohesion in Europe, it hopes to pull Serbia away from its path toward the EU by emphasizing traditional Orthodox ties.

Trump should stop dancing to Putin’s nuclear waltz

Since retaking office, President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed concern that Russia’s war on Ukraine could spiral into World War III....

Obama and Biden’s failed Russia policies

The last thing Trump should do is adopt them

Pressure Putin

That’s what Trump must do to achieve a ceasefire

‘He is Not Going to Have a Country Left’: Trump Dispute With Ukrainian President Zelensky Escalates Following U.S.-Russia Talks

‘Disinformation Space’: A public feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, escalated on February 19, one day after American...

Trump must counter Vladimir Putin’s coming deception games — here’s how

Vladimir Putin’s regime is readying a new bag of diplomatic tricks for the second Trump administration, as the Kremlin angles to lure Trump’s incoming national-security team into helping...