Rethinking Global Security: Katrina vanden Heuvel

Dividing the World Into Opposing Camps Is the Road to Armageddon

Washington aims to recast NATO in the image of the US military, with its focus on “great power competition” and a renewed arms race with Russia and China.

Michael T. Klare for The Nation

Biden’s New Normal Seems Ominously Heading Toward a Revival of Cold War Politics

We need a far more serious discussion about the real security priorities of the American people—and the real challenges we face.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Biden Has an Opportunity to Begin Rebuilding the US’s Fractured Relationship With Russia

Relations between the United States and Russia have reached a particularly perilous moment.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Women in Russia and the US Show an Alternative to War

American and Russian women who remember the danger of the Cold War understand the stakes of this year’s summit.

Nadezhda Azhgikhina

The Cyber Cold War Is Here

The US government has refused to engage the rest of the world in regulating hostile cyber activities as it continues to launch offensive cyber operations abroad.

John Feffer

The Successful Campaign to Block Matthew Rojansky’s Appointment Is Ominous for Biden’s Russia Policy

Recalibrating our relations to Russia—and reducing the tensions around Ukraine and the Russian border—surely must be part of that effort.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

As Alexey Navalny’s Health Deteriorates, the Movement’s Momentum Flags

But across Russia, another kind of power is building.

Vadim Nikitin

The Cold War Is Being Rebooted and Rebranded

Iran as a perfidious enemy? Check. Russia and China as autocratic menaces? Check. An unpredictable North Korea? Check. It’s happening all over again.

William Astore

Gogol’s Bullshit Jobs

His biting satires of Russian bureaucracy examined the random cruelty and arbitrary hierarchy of an empire in crisis.

Jennifer Wilson