NEW YORK  —  Sixty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world is again facing the specter of a nuclear confrontation.

MOSCOW  —  One of Queen Elizabeth II’s final acts was to accept the resignation of disgraced prime minister Boris Johnson, the most mendacious and incompetent of the 15 prime ministers who led the United Kingdom during her 70-year reign.

MOSCOW — “We all need to have perestroika,” Mikhail Gorbachev would often say. The Soviet Union’s last leader lived by that credo.

MOSCOW — In 1949, five of the world’s greatest living writers, André Gide, Richard Wright, Ignazio Silone, Stephen Spender, and Arthur Koestler, and the American foreign correspondent Louis Fischer contributed essays to a collection called The God That Failed, in which they refle

NEW YORK  —  This month, Andrei Sakharov, the Soviet nuclear physicist turned anti-nuclear activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, would have been 101.

MOSCOW — As US President Joe Biden prepares to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the stakes might not seem all that high.

NEW YORK — Leon Trotsky may not claim a mass following nowadays, but the revolutionary tactics that he pioneered remain very much in use, and not only by communists or in today’s Russia, where they are called “political technology”.

MOSCOW — In the notorious case of Dred Scott v.

WASHINGTON, DC  —  Since January 6, when a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol, dozens of rioters have been charged with crimes.