Westerners who seek only to be left in peace are courting an even more deadly war

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

A Q&A with geostrategist and Pentagon guru Edward Luttwak

The administration’s willing dependence on the Kremlin for its Iran policy sealed Ukraine’s fate

Their extreme wealth and generous giving to Jewish causes speak to a precarious balancing act that the war in Ukraine may have permanently undone

The admiration of religious traditionalism and hatred of cosmopolitan liberalism is part of the Kremlin’s fascist ideology

Unlike official Russia, Ukraine is an example of mourning and redemption done right

President Zelensky’s soaring optimism has given way to the reality that America isn’t coming to help, Ukraine is on its own, and Vladimir Putin is only getting started

Boycotting Russian food, art, people, and animals is not just misguided. It’s immoral.

The legendary Soviet political prisoner and Israeli government minister on the war in Ukraine, the two Vladimirs, and the implications for the Middle East

The absurdities of this historical moment, as embodied by President Zelensky, point us to the deeper truths of Ukraine’s messy identity, which is proving to be a more powerful construction than Putin’s authoritarian nostalgia

The Russian leader’s actions express essential and unalterable truths about human nature, which we ignore at our peril

But it will take more than a war to undo decades of emotional and economic investment in the Russian state

Even in the face of certain death, Ukrainians are displaying heroism worthy of the darkest days of World War II

By tying itself to a reckless and dangerous America, the Ukrainians made a blunder that client states will study for years to come