BRUSSELS — On April 19, I watched an audience of European and American political officials and strategic experts pay rapt attention as U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told them Congress would enact a Ukraine aid package…
Saturday marks the two-year anniversary of Russian despot Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, after Moscow’s military forces took control of Eastern Ukraine and Crimea in 2014. When he launched his “special military operation” in 2022,…
At some point in our lives we all have the urge to rewrite history. “The dog ate it,” revision starts early. And if not tempered by a healthy conscience can get dangerously out of hand.…
Henry A. Kissinger, who died on Wednesday at 100, was one of the most consequential statesmen in U.S. history. Though his greatest triumphs occurred a half-century ago, his legacy is complex, contested and contains lessons…
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Simone Biles and her teammates were far from perfect, and yet nothing could stand in the way of a victory that set a record for both the U.S. women’s team and…
MOSCOW (AP) — With its brutality, technological accomplishments and rigid ideology, the Soviet Union loomed over the world like an immortal colossus. It led humankind into outer space, exploded the most powerful nuclear weapon ever,…
Alina is one of the lucky ones. She’s not dead from starvation or a Russian bullet or missile in Mariupol. The world is witnessing the horror of Russian war crimes in Ukraine — as revealed…
Madeleine Albright may have not coined the phrase “indispensable nation,” but she will always be associated with the concept. By the time she became Secretary of State in 1997, the United States had become a…
Thirty years ago this month, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Ukraine broke away from Moscow’s control. Russian President Vladimir Putin has never gotten over it. That, more than anything, underlies the current crisis in which…
Allen County was host to a unique group of international young people Thursday. They were visiting from the Republic of Armenia, a landlocked country in the mountainous Caucasus region once part of the Soviet Union.…