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In the Manning Affair, Harvard Once Again Demonstrates Its ‘Liberal’ Values
This year, the university dumps Manning and Michelle Jones. In the 1960s, it honored Vietnam War architect—and admitted war criminal—Robert McNamara.
John Nichols
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September 13, 2017
Will Russia Leave the West?
The new Cold War could drive the planet’s largest country, long anchored politically in both geopolitical worlds, eastward to stay.
Stephen F. Cohen
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September 6, 2017
Does Putin Really Want to ‘Destabilize the West’?
Just as there is no forensic evidence of a Kremlin “attack on our democracy” in 2016, there is no political logic for Putin’s alleged motives.
Stephen F. Cohen
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August 25, 2017
Seth Rich, Conspiracy Theorists, and Russiagate ‘Truthers’
The murder of a DNC staffer has been shamelessly manipulated by Fox News, WikiLeaks—and possibly the White House.
Bob Dreyfuss
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August 24, 2017
Growing Up With Big Brother
A historian tracks half a century of evolving state surveillance.
Alfred McCoy
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August 24, 2017
The Lost Alternatives of Mikhail Gorbachev
Thirty years ago, the last Soviet leader gave the world the possibilities of a democratic Russia and (with Ronald Reagan) an end to Cold War and nuclear arms races. Today, it is as though those historical alternatives never existed.
Stephen F. Cohen
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August 17, 2017
Political Conflict Over Historical Monuments, From Charlottesville to Moscow
Today’s conflicts over American slavery and Stalin’s Great Terror reveal similar controversies as well as an unknown Putin.
Stephen F. Cohen
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July 17, 2017
Trump’s Foreign-Policy Meltdown
Undermining confidence and alienating allies, Trump has already undone years of American diplomacy.
Alfred W. McCoy
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July 12, 2017
Trump-Putin Détente Partnership Begins as ‘Russiagate’ Attacks on It Grow
Cooperation with Russia is imperative, but never has the US political-media elite’s opposition to it been so virulent.
Stephen F. Cohen
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July 12, 2017
What the Senate Should Ask FBI Nominee Christopher Wray
The investigation into Trump and Russia isn’t the only subject Congress must press him on.
Chip Gibbons