It is the morning of May 12, 1892, and the Lithuanian-born landscape painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan has just left his home and studio on Moscow’s leafy Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane to spend the summer… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent…

“Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.” So declared Joseph Stalin, the murderous tyrant whose own death arrived on March 5, 1953, five months after the birth of Vladimir Putin. Stalin’s death… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent…

I’ll say this upfront: I think it’s most likely that Vladimir Putin, or elements of his regime, had Russian dissident Alexei Navalny killed. Putin is certainly capable of bumping off the political opp… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent…

In a breaking story that will have serious international implications, we’re just learning from the Russians that dissident and opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in Vladimir Putin’s gulag. Spe… No hoodwinking or hornswoggling here. Support independent journalism and get…