For decades, fears of energy scarcity drove American energy diplomacy. The dependence of the global economy on oil, and America’s need to…
By autumn of 1988, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev had been in power for three riveting years as general secretary of the Communist Party. He…
President Donald J. Trump’s tweet this weekend that the U.S. might terminate all trade with countries doing business with North Korea was…
The latest round of congressional sanctions against Russia garnered much attention for the message they sent to President Donald Trump: We…
This Russian campaign on both sides of the Atlantic is directed towards one overarching goal—to undermine the democracies of the West, to…
President Donald Trump's decision to remove the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement is yet another manifestation – alongside the budget…
In contrast to the fireworks at some recent OPEC meetings, this week’s gathering in Vienna looks comparatively dull. Before it even began,…
A chronicle of the year that changed Soviet Russia — and molded the future path of one of America’s preeminent diplomatic correspondents.