The official U.S. policy is ambiguous and incoherent. Biden spoke the truth—but it’s a truth with some ominous implications.

Some 6,000 Russian elites help prop their leader up. Can they be pressured to see he’s no longer worth it?

China is trying to shut U.S. companies out of Southeast Asia. We can’t let that happen.

That CPAC held an event in Budapest is just brain-melting. And yet our media barely paid attention. This is how democracy dies.

Maybe it’s a sign that he knows his botched war has diminished his power. But he did add one caveat to his assent.

After years of the international song contest trying to stamp politics out of its broadcasts, Ukraine is the betting favorite to win.

Some of the grifters who paved the way for the Russian invasion of Ukraine want to be seen as being on the right side of the war.

And it’s not just the leakers. It’s Biden and his top officials openly speaking of crippling Russia.

The war in Ukraine has rivetingly demonstrated how joining the body is in our national interest.

The U.S. has sent thousands more troops to Europe, and spent billions on weapons for Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s budget continues to grow. Americans are paying the price for it.

The Pentagon chief’s statement suggests a willingness to see the war prolonged. Which just means more unpredictable things could happen.

Putin’s regime spares no effort in distracting and propagandizing the citizenry. But it’s the lies of omission that do the most damage.

British lawyers have long helped corrupt oligarchs protect their ill-gotten loot. The Tennessee Democrat wants to hold these enablers to account.

Eight months after American troops withdrew from Afghanistan, those who fled the Taliban are still struggling to get settled into their new lives.

A chance to reimagine American foreign policy abroad is a chance to shore up our tattered institutions here at home.

It wasn’t even close, thank goodness. But legislative elections loom in June, and the nation remains deeply fractured.

So far, Biden and the public are fully behind sending arms to fight Russia. But will the time come for a Putin-appeasing peace treaty?

The lone pre–second round debate touched on Russia, the EU, crime—and, inevitably, Islam. But Le Pen didn’t convince swing voters—probably.

Noam Chomsky kick-started a debate last weekend by arguing for a settlement with Putin. It may come to that, but we’re not there yet.

One of Russia’s leading independent journalists speaks with editor Michael Tomasky about the decision to shutter the celebrated TV Rain.