Reality doesn’t conform to the theory of the rational, calculating despot who can play the long game.

Russia’s botched invasion has illustrated the diminishing power of heavy and expensive military power.

His baldly illegitimate claim to four Ukrainian provinces shows contempt for the global order—and his own subjects.

Is Putin facing his Czar Nicholas II moment?

Why have the experts been so persistently wrong?

Also, kicking the Kyle Rittenhouse hornet’s nest

The real culprit is the host of federal laws and regulations propping up prices to benefit corporate interests.

In another election, she might have been asked.

Purveyors of disinformation are targeting Americans with tactics pioneered by the populist authoritarian Rodrigo Duterte.

On the National Mall with the RFK-to-MAGA pipeline