How Ukraine Is Upending European Politics
Europe is about to hold two major elections: In Hungary,
There Is No Liberal World Order
In February 1994, in the grand ballroom of the town hall in Hamburg, Germany, the president of Estonia gave a remarkable speech. Standing before an audience in evening dress, Lennart Meri praised the values of the democratic world that Estonia then aspired to join. “The freedom of every individual, the freedom of the economy and…
The World Is Splitting in Two
The Russian invasion of Ukraine and a series of COVID-related shutdowns in China do not, on the surface, appear to
How Western News Is Getting Around Putin’s Digital Iron Curtain
As Russian forces continue their brutal invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is waging a digital war of his own at
The War in Ukraine Is Just Beginning
If conflicts in places such as Ethiopia, Palestine, Kashmir, Syria, and Yemen have proved anything, it’s that wars are easy
Putin Has Made America Great Again
Donald Trump was supposed to have changed the world, robbing America not just of its luster but of its allies’
The Silent, Vaccinated, Impatient Majority
Politicians rarely set out to piss off their constituents, much less admit to doing so. So when French President Emmanuel
When the Far Right Picks Fights With a Teen
The next front in the culture wars is climate change, and the battle lines have already been drawn. On one
A Eulogy for the Free Press
On the morning of July 1, 2020, newsstands across Hong Kong had a conspicuously uniform appearance. At least eight major
When America Couldn’t Bring Back Our Girls
In 2014, three months after Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 girls from a school in the northeastern Nigerian town