This War Isn't Going as Putin Planned
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Broad-based economic sanctions issue collective punishment on all Russians while doing little to deter their government's aggression toward Ukraine.
The country is one of the most egregious violators of religious liberty on the planet.
Let's give green cards to the Russians and deprive Vladimir Putin of the brainpower that keeps Russia's industrial motors running.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is singularly responsible for the war that began this week. But the past four presidential administrations missed opportunities to deescalate.
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But there are still constitutionality questions surrounding his troop deployments to NATO's eastern flank.
Europe's poorest country is stepping up to help Ukrainians. Time for the U.S. to do the same.
Closing the door to Ukrainian membership in NATO would have allayed Russian security concerns and maybe preserved the peace.
Gasoline may reach an average of $4 per gallon.
Western governments made promises they didn’t keep and offered assurances they can’t fulfill.
Supplying the power gives you power.
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Neither side is ideal. But both law and justice are far more on Ukraine's side than Vladimir Putin's.
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Also, Democrats show they can read the polls on mask mandates.
Now is the time for immigration relief, not military involvement on Ukraine’s behalf.
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According to a new YouGov/Concerned Veterans for America poll, veterans and military families are most opposed to U.S. conflict with Russia.
Only time will tell if Germany is the "incredibly reliable ally" that Biden claims it is.
What Joe Rogan and Canadian truckers tell us about free speech.
After disappointment in Afghanistan, Americans show no eagerness for a new conflict.
“One of the problems in this crisis is that people have tried to find the magic bullet that explains everything,” says Rajan Menon of Defense Priorities.
Putin is the chief provocateur, but Washington isn't innocent when it comes to unnecessary escalation.
The "liberal world order" doesn't require a war with Russia over the Donbass.
Will bipartisanship fix Joe Biden's presidency?
Supplying the Ukrainian army hasn’t stopped Putin.
Soviet rule promised abundance. Instead it brought misery and starvation.
The greatest chess player in modern history on how the Soviet Union lost to the free world.
China and Russia aren’t interested in bigger emissions cuts.
The grandmaster and human rights activist talks about the lessons the world—especially American democratic socialists—must remember three decades after communism's collapse.
30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its greatest—and last—chess champion reflects on the awful system that produced him.
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Stopping the import of Russian ammo is just pretending to do something noble.
The Fox News pundit’s emails were probably reviewed legally—and that’s part of the problem.
She was sentenced to more than five years for revealing how Russia tried to hack the 2016 election.
Americans oppose restrictions, but report feeling less free to speak about political matters.
Pipelines work, while solar and wind energy often leave people in the dark.
They claim that only state actors could have carried out the assault on the Russian dissident.
The Russian opposition leader will be sent to a penal colony for failing to meet with probation officers while he was comatose due to poisoning.
More than 5,000 people were detained across Russia on Sunday
The political activist's fraud conviction has been called a "politically motivated" Kremlin plot to keep him from running for office.
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Let's not weaken cybersecurity even more.
While I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose, November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, which I am happy to adopt if it can attract a broad consensus.
The surveillance whistleblower has a child on the way and little sign a pardon is forthcoming.
That so many Americans believe Biden and Trump are foreign-backed puppets is less testimony to the effectiveness of overseas scheming than to our own political culture.