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What to Celebrate—and Mourn—This International Women’s Day What to Celebrate—and Mourn—This International Women’s Day

Over the last year, women’s rights took one step back, and two steps forward.

Mar 8, 2019 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Russian women demonstrators

Russian Women Against Militarism: Act II Russian Women Against Militarism: Act II

Feminists are once again on the front lines of a generations-old struggle for peace.  

Mar 8, 2019 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Toward a Global History of the Communist Party

Toward a Global History of the Communist Party Toward a Global History of the Communist Party

A. James McAdams’s new history examines the tensions between the communist party as an institution and as an ideal.

Mar 7, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Tony Wood

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The Long History of US-Russian ‘Meddling’ The Long History of US-Russian ‘Meddling’

The two governments have repeatedly interfered in each other’s domestic politics during the past 100 years—and it’s not all bad.

Mar 6, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate

Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen on Russiagate

A conversation about Trump, Russia, and the New Cold War.

Mar 5, 2019 / The Nation

Mueller walks through halls of capitol building

How the Russiagate Investigation Is Sovietizing American Politics How the Russiagate Investigation Is Sovietizing American Politics

“Collusion,” “contacts,” selective prosecutions, coup plotting, and media taboos recall repressive Soviet practices.

Feb 20, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Anti-Nuclear War Demonstration

Trump Is Igniting a Perilous New Nuclear-Arms Race Trump Is Igniting a Perilous New Nuclear-Arms Race

Enforcement, not abandonment, is the answer to violations of the INF Treaty.

Feb 5, 2019 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Russia’s Pension-System ‘Reform’ Is Deeply Controversial

Russia’s Pension-System ‘Reform’ Is Deeply Controversial Russia’s Pension-System ‘Reform’ Is Deeply Controversial

It reveals that the country needs Perestroika 2.0.

Feb 1, 2019 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina

Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin

Trump’s Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’ Trump’s Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’

Why would Moscow want to fight terrorists without the US? It doesn’t.

Jan 30, 2019 / Stephen F. Cohen

Stephen F. Cohen and Dan Rather in Conversation With Katrina vanden Heuvel

Stephen F. Cohen and Dan Rather in Conversation With Katrina vanden Heuvel Stephen F. Cohen and Dan Rather in Conversation With Katrina vanden Heuvel

At 92Y, Cohen argues that our new Cold War with Russia is even more dangerous than the first one, and that Russiagate is only exacerbating the problem.

Jan 28, 2019 / The Nation

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