Putin won’t end up at The Hague — but war-crimes prosecutions of Russia still matter
Three courts are investigating Russia’s conduct during the war.
Is Russia still a great power?
Yes, of course it is. But it's not the kind of great power everyone thought it was a month ago.
Evangelical Christians are politicizing the Jewish story of Esther
How the right is reading the holiday of Purim into modern U.S. debates.
Kicking ‘generation Putin’ out of Western universities won’t help anything
Punishing young Russians will only alienate potential opponents of the current regime.
I’ve been to space with Russians. Threatening our partnership there is senseless.
For NASA astronauts like me and my cosmonaut colleagues, the International Space Station is a powerful symbol of peaceful cooperation.
Time is running out for China
Xi has one advantage over Putin. Let’s see if he exploits it.
Hospitals desperately need staff. But capping travel nurses’ pay won’t help.
The travel nursing boom is just a symptom of a much larger, self-inflicted problem.
Americans will sacrifice more to help Ukraine than most did for our own wars
Our leaders have stopped asking us to share the pain for foreign policy.
The end of my life was killing me
Not everyone in my life found it hilarious that I had "Not not dead, just resting" piped onto my birthday cake.
Far-right figures are newly embracing a scary symbol: The gallows
It’s trolling — but it’s not just that.
My March 2022 book recommendations
The interwar period, so hot right now.
Is Putin coup-proof? That depends on how much hardship Russian elites will stand.
The Russian president is gambling that the war will tighten his grip on power. It could have the opposite effect.
Muslims are fighting on both sides in Ukraine
The war, which has divided Muslim clerics, threatens to destabilize Eurasia.
Why we obsess over the details of a nuclear apocalypse
Speculating about doomsday scenarios can provide a paradoxical comfort.
Putin doesn’t fear a coup by oligarchs. But he should fear his fellow spies.
Russia’s security services have tried to topple its leaders before.
The dumb, dangerous, symbolic politics of a no-fly zone
Should the United States help Ukraine? Yes. Is this a good way to help Ukraine? No.
McDonald’s closed its stores in Russia, debunking a silly economic theory
The slow, sad demise of the ‘Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention.’
Facebook and Twitter could let Trump back online. But he’s still a danger.
The defense of democracy isn’t over yet.
Can the U.S. make friends with the friends of its enemy?
What is the United States willing to do to pressure Russia?
The CDC’s new mask guidance guarantees we’ll be too slow for the next surge
The shift in focus away from case counts could lead to a delay in much-needed public health interventions.