Spring 2022

Vladimir Putin used historical references and a claim of fighting “fascism” to justify war on Ukraine, despite his own glaring Hitlerian behavior.

For nearly three decades, the author has warned that, if we ignored Putin's ambitions, he would become a global problem.

A courageous journalist was murdered after warning us twenty years ago about the Russian method of war.

Vladimir Putin and his clique ruthlessly took over Russia’s assets and used their billions to undermine Western institutions and democracies.

The former foreign minister of Russia provides a unique look inside his country's leadership and reflects on the prospects for democracy there.

It’s too impersonal to call what’s happening in Ukraine a “stalemate” when cities are reduced to rubble and thousands of civilians murdered. 

For a decade, the West has sleep-walked through a new kind of warfare being waged from Moscow. It took Putin's ground war against Ukraine to wake people up.

The words of Thomas Paine changed the course of history, and are still relevant as Ukrainians fight for the rights he articulated.

The unique political genius of Abraham Lincoln was to navigate carefully and at times conservatively between abolition and the Southern cause until he knew the time was right for radical justice.

In 1870, the first major American expedition into the Yellowstone revealed an extraordinary wilderness, which became a national park 150 years ago.

Welsh designer Patrick Mulder created a haunting image of Vladimir Putin with Hitler's moustache.