Trump’s Oval Office Spectacle: When Power Becomes a Stage for Humiliation.
How Trump Won
Trump’s return to power reveals a fractured America, where defiance of democratic norms and ruthless ambition signal a troubling shift in the nation’s political future.
Putin’s dangerous power play: How a century-old Russian strategy threatens the west
How Putin’s Quest for Power Revives Russia’s Century-Old Threat to the West.
Russia’s battle of the ministries
Powerful groups seem increasingly willing to break the unspoken rule against public infighting. This does not bode well for Putin’s regime.
Preparing Russia for permanent war
Behind the Kremlin façade of a grateful people devoted to their leader lie despair, paranoia, intolerance, rage and violence.
The west must face reality in Ukraine
Whereas the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is willing to throw everything at this war, Ukraine’s backers are losing their resolve.
Vladimir Putin’s killer patriotism
Last year’s ‘partial mobilisation’ triggered a backlash against the Kremlin and Putin is fearful of a repeat.
How Russians fight
Ordinary Russians are unable to protest against the Ukraine war. But evidence of covert resistance is everywhere.
The Kremlin’s suicidal imperialism
The more apparent it is that Russia is losing, the more forcefully Vladimir Putin declares that it is not.
The greatest democrat Russia ever had
Mikhail Gorbachev was Russia’s last liberal leader. His spirit lives on for the next.
Don’t cancel Russian culture
Refusing to engage with Russian culture will not change Putin’s calculations, let alone impel him to withdraw from Ukraine.
Unhappy birthday, Andrei Sakharov
The Kremlin’s negation of the Nobel laureate’s legacy represents another step backwards which could lead to nuclear war.
The origins of Putin’s totalitarianism
The siloviki who gained power during Putin’s early years have been replaced by faceless security technocrats—real heirs to the KGB.
Putin’s war will destroy Russia
By attacking another European country, Putin crossed a line drawn after World War II. But he also changed Russia.
Can Navalny take down Putin?
Today’s protest movement has a charismatic and sympathetic leader but Putin has spent the last decade consolidating a police state.