Observing Israel’s moves in the Middle East, Kyiv gambles on an American power vacuum

The Biden administration’s recent approval for hitting targets inside Russia is still constrained by misguided fears of a Russian defeat

The murder of his most popular political opponent is a sign of Putin’s confidence, not weakness

Natan Sharansky and others question whether the Jewish state is botching the chance to rescue and integrate a potentially valuable new wave of Russian Jewish olim fleeing repression at home

A dispatch from the Russia of the recent past

The warlord’s abortive rebellion has exposed the hollowness of the Putin regime

Kyiv is fighting three wars, not one—and time likely favors Moscow

The passing of Ilya Kabakov, 1933-2023, reminds us how the movement he pioneered under totalitarian rule paved the way for post-Soviet Russian art

By taking an American journalist hostage, Putin’s Russia announces its transformation into a full-blown terrorist state

Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar on the moral and historical responsibility for maintaining Jewish communal life in a harsh environment

With a new Cold War emerging, can Israel continue to sit on the fence?

Sanctions have failed to break Putin, and the West is running out of missiles and bullets

Hopes that post-Soviet Russia would join the ranks of prosperous liberal democracies have proven to be a chimera

The Latvian American financier and quasi-counterfeit ‘Pentagon analyst’ Dan Rapoport led the kind of life that makes any cause of his recent death—assassination, suicide, or pseudocide—all equally plausible

Why is Joe Biden alternately ignoring and funding the ever-closer alliance between Iran and Putin?