In its timing, design, and execution, the Wagner chief’s threatened coup bears the hallmarks of a well-prepared operation.

The Ukrainian president isn’t the problem.

Xi Jinping said his country and Putin’s Russia are friends with “no limits.” The reality is more complicated.

Ukrainian leaders announced one counteroffensive against Russia—but had another in the works.

If this conflict is a new cold war, it’s one that the autocracies have been pursuing energetically and the democracies have been loath to accept.

Societies that scapegoat foreign powers for domestic problems erode their ability to solve those problems.

Ukraine is holding a vote amid so much unresolved conflict.

We may be getting the moral of the Russian leader’s childhood story all wrong.

The Republicans who won’t take yes for an answer

Kherson’s museums became a microcosm of the grim drama of collaboration and resistance that takes place under occupation.