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Putin and the Lessons of History: A Special Section

Author: Edwin S. Grosvenor

Vladimir Putin used historical references and a claim of fighting “fascism” to justify war on Ukraine, despite his own glaring Hitlerian behavior.

We Must Never Surrender

Author: Garry Kasparov

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

Reports from Chechnya: Putin's Way of War

Author: Anna Politkovskaya

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

Putin and the Oligarchs

Author: Catherine Belton

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

Can Russian Democracy Rise Again?

Author: Andrei Kozyrev

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 Not a Stalemate; It's a War

Author: Lucian K. Truscott IV

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

A Turning Point In The Disinformation War?

Author: Paul Holmes

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.

“Times That Try Men’s Souls”

Author: Harlow Giles Unger

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

Lincoln Walks a Tightrope

Author: David S. Reynolds

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.

Discovering Yellowstone

Author: George Black

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