We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the…
The Hoover Institution’s Stephen Kotkin is probably America’s top Kremlinologist. He knows Russia — its history, culture, and politics —…
Late this past summer, I witnessed something that others could have seen, but, like me, they wouldn’t have fully understood…
The news from Moscow is that Russia is likely to abandon the 13 percent flat-rate income tax enacted in 2000,…
Translator’s Note: France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, will not say there will never be French troops — or NATO troops —…
It is the morning of May 12, 1892, and the Lithuanian-born landscape painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan has just left his…
India’s ontological question is: Who are we — a regional or global power? Narendra Modi, the most popular and consequential…
“Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.” So declared Joseph Stalin, the murderous tyrant whose own death arrived on…
