China has already started. This is going to make Putin’s 2016 troll farm look like amateur hour. Can we counter it?

For Americans, authoritarian rule is theoretical. But in Eastern Europe, reminders of it are everywhere, as is dread of a partial return to those days.

Donald Trump is now claiming Vladimir Putin will free reporter Evan Gershkovich only if he wins. An expert in foreign relations explains why this is a bad omen for a second Trump term.

A former CIA officer explains how a vast, pro-Putin corruption network uncovered in Europe is a warning sign for the U.S.

Congress is back (yikes), and Speaker Johnson can force a Ukraine aid vote—and it would pass. But even Johnson isn’t the real appeaser here.

From praise for Hitler and Mussolini to friendships with Putin and Orbán, open adoration for authoritarians is a defining feature of the American right.

So long, Sunak, Macron, Trudeau. Hello, Vlad, Viktor, and Kim. What would happen to the United States, and the world, if Donald Trump made it back to the Oval Office? The “leader of the free world” would become a fanboy follower in the unfree one.

The Russian strongman has yet to topple Ukraine, but he’s conquered the GOP.

With Trump set to host Orbán at his Mar-a-Lago retreat this week, it’s time to get serious about the rise of the global far right and why its worldview poses such a dire threat.

It’s why he was imprisoned the moment he returned to Russia in 2021. And it’s why he’s dead today.

Donald Trump is threatening to abandon NATO. MAGA is blocking money for Ukraine. A well-placed House Democrat explains how these things are connected—and what must happen now.

She almost certainly won’t be the Republican nominee. But she’s showing where Biden is vulnerable.

LGBTQ people have few rights in Ukraine. But fighting one of the world’s most extreme homophobes may be changing things.

Prigozhin’s mutiny was the “first marker of the cracking of the regime,” according to one Ukrainian intelligence source.

These munitions have no place in war. Just because Moscow is using them doesn’t mean the U.S. should provide them to Ukraine.

The U.S. seems likely to stay cautious and deliberate.

He means a world in which Putin is on top and abandoned U.S. allies potentially start arming themselves with nukes. Some “peace.”

Russia’s economy is much worse than it admits, and victory will only impoverish it further.

Daniil Orain’s person-on-the-street interviews give Russians a rare opportunity to say what they think. Some even do so.

While you may not have been looking, Europe stopped buying Russian oil and gas. And that’s just for starters.