Like many Jews from the former Soviet Union, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky grew up in a world that suppressed the truth about the Nazi genocide.
Plus: The limits of what academics can know
We may be getting the moral of the Russian leader’s childhood story all wrong.
Thoughts On Timothy Snyder's The Bloodlands
Can the shadowy Petro Poroshenko pull off an upset win against Yulia Tymoshenko?
The underlying purpose of American foreign policy is to prove that democracy is “not a relic of history.”
The Republicans who won’t take yes for an answer
The need for Congress to figure out why he and his team keep misleading the public about Russia grows more urgent by the day, even if they are ultimately exonerated.
In a new book, Timothy Snyder explains how Russia revolutionized information warfare—and presages its consequences for democracies in Europe and the United States.
People who left homelands that have since undergone severe political changes are grieving the demise of a place as they knew it.