Will the death penalty ever be abolished in America? Executions, and the states that carry them out, are in decline. Public support for the…
For a president with impressive foreign policy successes in his first term, Barack Obama has had a difficult year and a half on the global…
Vladimir Putin's campaign to divide, destabilize, and dismantle Ukraine has reached a new phase with this week’s surge of violence in the…
With 2½ years left in his presidency, Barack Obama finds a series of daunting global crises filling his Oval Office in-box. Countering…
This week's ethnic Russian demonstrations in Eastern Ukraine, fistfights in the Ukrainian parliament, and the image of a country unraveling…
One week later, Vladimir Putin’s extraordinarily powerful, provocative, acerbic, and self-pitying speech justifying the annexation of…
The sweeping changes to the US military announced recently by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are the most public recognition yet of the…
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is nearing the end of Act One with this weekend’s trumped-up Crimean referendum for reunification with…
Russia has produced innumerable chess grandmasters, and its president for life, Vladimir Putin, is no exception. Picture him brooding…