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

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

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.

Plus: The limits of what academics can know

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

Yielding to Putin’s blackmail would be folly.

Ukraine is holding a vote amid so much unresolved conflict.

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

How Putin twists the history of World War II