Nothing To See Here
No Let-up in Putin’s Hybrid War

A bomb in Kharkiv, a city far from the front-lines of the Ukrainian war, killed two people at a pro-government rally. The Minsk peace may be showing signs of taking hold, but Vladimir Putin’s project is far from finished.

Fracas in Caracas
Venezuela: The Country With Four Exchange Rates

According to the government, real prices may vary by over 2700%.

Debating Democracy Promotion
What Realists Get Wrong About Niebuhr

Reinhold Niebuhr’s work is in vogue these days, but his champions fail to appreciate how his Christian faith informed his views of foreign affairs.

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Getting Real
The Realist Case for Arming Ukraine

Realist arguments against arming the Ukrainians may seem unassailable. But that is only because they are incomplete.

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Public Opinions
Domestic Costs Are Rising for Mr. Putin

Just how fragile is Vladimir Putin’s support? As far as war in Ukraine goes, it’s a lot more fragile than most outside observers think.

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Cognitive Dissonance
Snow

As blizzards blanket Boston and there is no sign of Al Gore producing A More Inconvenient Truth, it’s time to look at the cognitive defenses of ideologues.

Life in the Panopticon
Big Brother (and Everyone Else) is Watching

A new DARPA project scrapes the web in ways Google doesn’t even try. Welcome to the brave new internet world.

Reviews
The Many Masks of Modern Russia

Peter Pomerantsev’s years as a TV producer in Moscow gave him a keen appreciation of the dizzying, disorienting realities of postmodern Russia.

Reviews
Mike Nichols and the End of New York

Prolific director Mike Nichols impressed critics and charmed audiences, but his legacy has more to do with the vanishing urbane world he represented than the quality of his films.

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Leftward Drift?
Worries About Francis

Pope Francis’ heart and his perception of the world may be more to the Left than I perhaps expected.

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