World War I was catastrophic for Russian society in every conceivable way. The military was badly led and the Germans out-maneuvered them...

Ukrainian Americans Are Fleeing The GOP In Droves Technically, I guess I’m a Ukrainian-American. My grandfather was born in Ukraine when...

I visited Moscow and St Petersburg a few years ago. I liked the trip a lot (which included Azerbaijan), but I’m probably not ever going...

That’s Not Fair— DeSantis Henchmen Haven’t Thrown A Single Opponent Out Of A Window Yet Disclaimer: I’m a pro-death penalty guy and...

by Noah Your Saturday Cartoon: You think that headline is too harsh? Really? Yeah, I know we have freedom of the press (of a sort) here,...

America Is Dysfunctional-- Great Job Boris Yesterday, The Hill ran a biographical piece on far right Russo-Republican Boris Epshteyn. I...

Feel like stepping away from Señor Trumpanzee for a moment? You likely never heard of Gleb Karakulov, right? When I was in Moscow I used...

I don’t think most Americans under the retirement age knew anything about Charles Lindbergh before Phil Roth’s alternative history novel,...

Tuesday— Trump screeching and whining that he’s “copying him’— Meatball Ron broke with the Old GOP Establishment which has seen him as...

Russia Tried Swinging The Midterm Elections Towards It's Allies On Monday, the government released the Annual Threat Assessment of the...

The NY Times frequently publishes columns by prolific right-wing propagandist Christopher Caldwell. Yesterday they ran an anti-Biden...

Two years before he was convicted of treason— although the authorities called it ”lying” instead— retired General Michael Flynn was paid...

The Durham Investigation Was More Crooked Trump Regime Misdirection Trump— and his apologists, including, shamefully, some on the left—...

You Bet They Are! This morning, Bess Levin devoted her Vanity Fair column to a long list of the worst 2022 candidates— and there were so...

Putin And MBS Are Working To Throw The Election To The Republicans Asked by Judy Kurtz this week, Michael Cohen told The Hill that he...

Putin Doesn't Care About Angola's Vote; He's Got Elon Musk On His Team Reporting for the Washington Post yesterday, Joseph Menn and Cat...

Saudi Arabia’s new prime minister— murderous fascist crown “Prince” Mohammed bin Salman— made it completely clear that he is an enemy of...

Far right financial manipulator and rumored billionaire ex-boy toy, Blake Masters, never served anyone but himself in his life… and...

We keep hearing about Russian men fleeing the country overland and by air to Turkey, Armenia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan (98,000), Finland and...

From what I can gather from European media there are long lines of cars at Russia’s borders with men who don’t want to be drafted. Putin...