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Trump’s Intolerable Double Standard for Russia
Millions of Americans watched with great apprehension as Donald Trump spent the 2016 presidential campaign vigorously supporting Vladimir Putin’s strongman regime. That apprehension did not...

The White House Didn’t Ignore the Russia Sanctions Law
Senator Claire McCaskill called it a “constitutional crisis.” Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi and Ted Lieu claimed that the president is bucking the will of Congress expressed...

It’s Not the Collusion, It’s the Cooperation
Anyone still hoping for something that will deliver them from the torments of the Trump era must have been disappointed on Wednesday. The preliminary findings...

Russia’s ‘Peacekeeping’ Play in Ukraine
It should be a familiar routine by now: Vladimir Putin offers an apparent diplomatic breakthrough in eastern Ukraine. Western negotiators get overexcited; the peace-shuttling commences; an...

How to Cut Diplomats in Russia
Moscow is belatedly responding to American sanctions leveled on Russia following its intervention in the 2016 election and the invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir...

Trump Quietly Gives Putin What He Wants
Until now, the notion that Donald Trump was providing Russia and Vladimir Putin with concessions at the expense of U.S. interests was poorly supported. That...

Revisionism on Russia from the New York Times
At the root of the Democratic Party’s attacks on Donald Trump’s Russia policy is a crippling contradiction. The logic of their assault on Trump’s posture...

Useful Idiocy
We all make mistakes. My most recent one was agreeing to go on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on July 12 to discuss—I thought—President Trump...

Putin’s Confession
Vladimir Putin has confessed! At least, that’s what observers are reading in between the lines of what the Russian president told reporters this week. The...

Laughter in the Kremlin
If there’s one man who is enjoying Donald Trump’s discomfort at the moment, it is Vladimir Putin. On Wednesday, the Russian president was in high spirits,...

Putin’s Propaganda Machine Targets Europe
You can’t win them all. After Vladimir Putin’s successful intervention in the U.S. election last year—successful in the sense that he helped to elect Donald...

Trump Silent as Challenges from Russia Mount
The House review of the role Russia played in interfering in the 2016 presidential election has devolved into a partisan mess. The Senate’s investigation into...