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?
Stalinism
Targeting Iran’s agents of influence
The British government unveiled an important new measure to combat influence originating from Tehran. Now it has to get to work enforcing it.The British government unveiled an important new measure to combat influence originating from Tehran. Now it has to get to work enforcing it.
Op-eds
The Stalinist approach to peacemaking
It’s simple, homicidal logic: No Israel, no problem
Op-eds
Guess the new Human Rights Watch director’s first target. Yup: Israel
For the first time in 30 years, Human Rights Watch has a new executive director, Tirana Hassan. Within days of taking office, she turned her fire on Israel. “This is a government that’s...
Op-eds
Xi’s struggle
China’s Communist ruler isn’t just playing games
Op-eds
Xi Jinping in His Own Words
What China’s Leader Wants—and How to Stop Him From Getting It
Op-eds
Biden’s left banker
A nominee with a colorful story and ‘radical’ beliefs
Op-eds
Swiss miss
Biden blew a chance for a win in his meeting with Putin
Op-eds
North Korea
Are We Headed Toward an Ignoble End in Afghanistan?
The question is less about when to leave and more about how to do so without further emboldening the Taliban.
Op-eds
Killing Khashoggi
It must bring consequences – not including a break in U.S.-Saudi relations
Op-eds
Trump’s art of the nuclear deals
Donald Trump inherited two deadly serious national security crises, one in the Middle East, one in the Far East. Look closely and you’ll see that these crises are inseverable....
Op-eds
PFLP Celebrates Jubilee Year in Berlin
Supporters and a senior official of the internationally designated terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine held a celebration in Berlin of 50 years since the grou...
Op-eds
Came the revolution
My political orientation has evolved slowly over decades. With one exception: I became anti-Soviet and anti-Communist overnight. More quickly than that, actually. The year was 1972. I wa...
Op-eds
The proliferation problem from hell
On the surface, Iran and North Korea could hardly be...
Op-eds
Pyongyang’s Murder of U.S. Student Shows Negotiating is Pointless
The death of American student Otto Warmbier was nothing less than a callous murder at the hands of North Korea’s Stalinist dictatorship. This crime should serve as a potent reminder that th...
Policy Briefs
The German Left’s Undeclared War on Israel
The historian Jeffrey Herf's profound new book shows that German-animated left-wing terrorism targeting Israel was not a tactic but rather part of a long-war strategy to destroy the Jewish s...
Op-eds
The Chilcot Report
The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the fri...
Op-eds
Britain’s Corbyn Is No Laughing Matter
"Few people outside Britain have ever heard of Jeremy Corbyn," the British journalist Nick Cohen ...
Op-eds
Celebrating a Conservative Fourth of July
I am in Berlin, Germany. Independence Day carries the weight of America’s role in defeating Stalinism and Soviet Communism in continental Europe. With the disturbing rise of mainstr...