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Putin Annual Address

Russian Diplomacy Is Winning the New Cold War Russian Diplomacy Is Winning the New Cold War

Washington’s attempt to “isolate Putin’s Russia” has failed and had the opposite effect. 

Nov 21, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Saint Spyridon the New Church in Bucharest

How the ‘Natural Family’ Movement Brought Its War of Values to the Balkans How the ‘Natural Family’ Movement Brought Its War of Values to the Balkans

Populist leaders with an increasingly autocratic bent are finding that it pays to jump on this ultraconservative bandwagon.

Nov 21, 2018 / Claudia Ciobanu

The Long, Entwined History of America First and the American Dream

The Long, Entwined History of America First and the American Dream The Long, Entwined History of America First and the American Dream

A new history shows that these expressions were originally used in ways that are significantly different from our current understanding of them.

Nov 21, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Kevin M. Kruse

Vote Sticker

What Do Republicans Have Against High-Turnout Elections? Everything What Do Republicans Have Against High-Turnout Elections? Everything

Lame-duck Governor Scott Walker is talking about rewriting Wisconsin election rules to thwart a future high-turnout election.

Nov 19, 2018 / John Nichols

Angela Merkel stares down Trump G-7

With Help From Trump, Nationalism Could Shatter Europe With Help From Trump, Nationalism Could Shatter Europe

Practically the only allies the president hasn’t alienated are extremists from Europe’s far right.

Nov 19, 2018 / Rajan Menon

Central California farm

Progressives Point the Way to Recapturing the Rural Vote Progressives Point the Way to Recapturing the Rural Vote

Democrats would do well to remember a fundamental truth that this year’s elections only amplified: Real power is built from the bottom up.

Nov 13, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Bolsonaro University Protest

Education Is in the Crosshairs in Bolsonaro’s Brazil Education Is in the Crosshairs in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

The president-elect seeks to ban from the classroom political opinions, debates, and any issues that could be construed as leftist.

Nov 12, 2018 / StudentNation / Michael Fox

Chronicle of Deaths Foretold

Chronicle of Deaths Foretold Chronicle of Deaths Foretold

Trump’s hateful rhetoric encourages mass violence.

Nov 8, 2018 / Column / Eric Alterman

North Korea Missile

Donald Trump’s Ignorance Has Us Headed Straight for the Second Nuclear Age Donald Trump’s Ignorance Has Us Headed Straight for the Second Nuclear Age

There’s good reason to be concerned.

Nov 5, 2018 / James Carroll

The US Capitol Building at sunset

Who’s Really ‘Undermining’ American Democracy? Who’s Really ‘Undermining’ American Democracy?

Allegations that Russia is still “attacking” US elections, now again in November, could delegitimize our democratic institutions.

Oct 31, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

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