Largely confined to the White House due to Covid, and kept away from the press by an overprotective staff, the president broke free for almost two hours on Wednesday.

That’s what some foreign policy pundits would have us believe, as Biden and Putin spar over Russia’s mounting threats to its neighbor.

Joe Biden can’t let the U.S. get sucked into a possible Russia-Ukraine conflict. What he can do is help all sides save face.

The idea that Joe Biden squandered American credibility in the Afghan withdrawal is seductive, but it connects the wrong dots.

A book about Vladimir Putin has prompted several lawsuits by his billionaire cronies, including Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich. It’s part of a worrying trend.

The Russian leader has now met five U.S. presidents. The latest seems to have no illusions about his intentions.

Joe Biden is making some necessary defenses of democracy abroad. I can’t help wishing he’d make them more forcefully here at home.

Biden’s upcoming meeting with the Russian president is the perfect opportunity to shrink Russia’s outsize significance in American politics.

Our inability to truly conspire is why so many people are struggling today.

How politicians, regulators, and the media fell for an obvious financial fraud

With Putinism under assault, the president can forge a new path by rejecting regime change and heavy-handed democracy promotion in favor of interconnected diplomacy.

The veteran politician weighs how best to launch a presidency amid unprecedented crises.

Trump’s childish nuclear gambling and obsessive jingoism have combined in a strategy that could end arms control as we know it.

The subtlest way to undermine democracy is to fake it.

As the coronavirus racks the globe, White House lackeys and lobbyists are converging on the former Yugoslavia and reopening old wounds.

The Russian president is planning a lifetime tenure—and acting as a beacon for budding autocrats, from Turkmenistan to the Trump White House.

Alex Gibney’s new documentary about Mikhail Khodorkovsky presents a complex picture of a dissident.

Meet David Booth, the fake news peddler who is helping Russia spread its lies.

How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero

A radioactive mess near the Arctic Circle suggests our next superpower arms race will be even more foolish than the last one.