Covert Ops

Russia Facebook Hearing

New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics New Studies Show Pundits Are Wrong About Russian Social-Media Involvement in US Politics

Far from being a sophisticated propaganda campaign, it was small, amateurish, and mostly unrelated to the 2016 election.

Dec 28, 2018 / Aaron Maté

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

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

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

Dec 19, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

NATO exercise

New Cold War Dangers 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.

Dec 5, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Sanders War Powers Hearing

Congress Takes a Critical Step Toward Reasserting Its War-Powers Control Congress Takes a Critical Step Toward Reasserting Its War-Powers Control

A Senate resolution to end US support for Saudi-led conflict in Yemen shows that the politics of war are finally evolving.

Dec 4, 2018 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Putin Annual Address

Russian Diplomacy Is Winning the New Cold War Russian Diplomacy Is Winning the New Cold War

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

Nov 21, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

The US Capitol Building at sunset

Who’s Really ‘Undermining’ American Democracy? Who’s Really ‘Undermining’ American Democracy?

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

Oct 31, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Trump Putin Vietnam

Inconvenient Thoughts on Cold War and Other News Inconvenient Thoughts on Cold War and Other News

Intelligence agencies, Nikki Haley, sanctions, and public opinion.

Oct 17, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Jamal Khashoggi

Pulp Fiction in Istanbul, or, the Looming Turkey-Saudi Cold War Pulp Fiction in Istanbul, or, the Looming Turkey-Saudi Cold War

The disappearance, and probable brutal murder, of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Turkish soil could crater an already troubled geopolitical climate.

Oct 11, 2018 / Juan Cole

Red Square in Moscow

More Cold War Extremism and Crises More Cold War Extremism and Crises

Overshadowed by the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, US-Russian relations grow ever more perilous.

Oct 3, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

Putin Helicopter

Who Putin Is Not Who Putin Is Not

Falsely demonizing Russia’s leader has made the new Cold War even more dangerous.

Sep 20, 2018 / Stephen F. Cohen

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