Kasparov, Karpov and the KGB? Four decades on from the most controversial chess match of all time
FIDE President Florencio Campomanes announced that he was abandoning the World Chess Championship match between Garry ...
RealClearMarkets1d
If Countries Want to Hurt the U.S., They Should Choose Collectivism
If leaders of other countries ever really want to weaken the United States, they should embrace collectivism. It's that ...
The New Republic1dOpinion
Russia Asks Elon Musk for Help Crushing Dissent
So far, Musk has taken a sledgehammer to the U.S. Agency for International Development, setting off alarm bells, and is ...
Images of Ukraine, When Things Began to Fall Apart
The citizens photographed by Boris Mikhailov in the last days of the Soviet Union evoke laughter and sympathy in a show at ...
US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin
Such a solution would conjure a cruel historical irony. Putin, who watched in despair from his post as a KGB officer in ...
On This Day: Soviet Union expels dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn
In 1974, the Soviet Union expelled dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. In 1983, a blaze engulfed a crowded movie theater ...
The Economist4d
The neglect of Asia was the great failure of Yalta, writes Stephen Kotkin
Black grouse and caviar helped Stalin get much of what he wanted, but his Red Army counted for more, says a notable historian ...
96-year-old with intriguing past still downhill skis the steep slopes
Feet into boots. Boots into bindings. Then, Alexander Ryvlin begins carving a path down the steepest hill at Welch Village ...
How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs
As Marocco and his DOGE entourage dug through USAID’s books, the foreign aid freeze’s effect was reverberating across the ...
The American Conservative7d
The Foreign Aid Controversy Echoes Cold War Debates
This fundamental debate has returned to American politics, more than three decades after the Cold War, which birthed the ...