Ad Policy

By using this website, you consent to our use of cookies. For more information, visit our Privacy Policy

Stephen F. Cohen

Contributing Editor

Stephen F. Cohen is a professor emeritus of Russian studies, history, and politics at New York University and Princeton University. A Nation contributing editor, he is the author, most recently, of War With Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate.

Foreign PolicyYesterday 12:00 am

How the Russiagate Investigation Is Sovietizing American Politics

“Collusion,” “contacts,” selective prosecutions, coup plotting, and media taboos recall repressive Soviet practices.

Stephen F. Cohen
Foreign PolicyJanuary 30, 2019

Trump’s Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin’

Why would Moscow want to fight terrorists without the US? It doesn’t.

Stephen F. Cohen
MediaJanuary 23, 2019

The End of Russia’s ‘Democratic Illusions’ About America

How Russiagate has impacted a vital struggle in Russia.

Stephen F. Cohen
War and PeaceJanuary 16, 2019

Anti-Trump Frenzy Threatens to End Superpower Diplomacy

Baseless Russiagate allegations continue to risk war with Russia.

Stephen F. Cohen
The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Sign up
US Wars and Military ActionJanuary 9, 2019

What Trump’s Syrian Withdrawal Really Reveals

A wise decision is greeted by denunciations, obstructionism, imperial thinking, and more Russia-bashing.

Stephen F. Cohen
Foreign PolicyDecember 19, 2018

Do Russiagate Promoters Prefer Impeaching Trump to Avoiding War With Russia?

The year 2018 in the history of the new Cold War.

Stephen F. Cohen
Foreign PolicyDecember 5, 2018

New Cold War Dangers

The Russian-Ukrainian military conflict in the Kerch Strait illustrates again how this Cold War is more dangerous that was its predecessor.

Stephen F. Cohen
Foreign PolicyDecember 3, 2018

War With Russia?

The New Cold War is more dangerous than the one the world survived.

Stephen F. Cohen
Foreign PolicyNovember 21, 2018

Russian Diplomacy Is Winning the New Cold War

Washington’s attempt to “isolate Putin’s Russia” has failed and had the opposite effect.

Stephen F. Cohen
ElectionsOctober 31, 2018

Who’s Really ‘Undermining’ American Democracy?

Allegations that Russia is still “attacking” US elections, now again in November, could delegitimize our democratic institutions.

Stephen F. Cohen