Global Organizations

Nazi governor of Poland Hans Frank at the Nuremberg Trials, 1946.

Rethinking Nuremberg for the 21st Century Rethinking Nuremberg for the 21st Century

The new film Nuremberg may tell us as much about the present as about the past.

Nov 10, 2025 / Elizabeth Borgwardt

Trump and team sat across from Zelensky

Europe Is at Donald Trump’s Mercy. It Has Itself to Blame. Europe Is at Donald Trump’s Mercy. It Has Itself to Blame.

The European Union has failed to mount an alternative to Donald Trump. On defense, geopolitical alignment, and trade policy, it is ever more subservient to the United States.

Oct 28, 2025 / Harrison Stetler

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on May 28, 2025.

Trump Is Effortlessly Destroying Washington’s International Influence Trump Is Effortlessly Destroying Washington’s International Influence

With Congress compliant, the Supreme Court complicit, and media corporations compromised, Trump has forged a clear path to international irrelevance.

Oct 7, 2025 / Alfred McCoy

A man rides a bicycle past a damaged residental building in Novodonets'ke, Donetsk region, on September 14, 2025.

Ukraine: The Trial Ukraine: The Trial

Debating the war.

Sep 19, 2025 / Robert Skidelsky

Local residents stand in front of the residential building heavily damaged three days ago during a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack, in Kyiv on August 31, 2025.

The Way Forward for Ukraine The Way Forward for Ukraine

The country is facing a crisis of survival, and its entire elite should take responsibility for bringing the war to a close.

Sep 5, 2025 / Jonathan Steele

Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office at the White House on August 18, 2025, in Washington, DC, for a bilateral meeting and later an expanded meeting with European leaders to discuss a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

The Ukraine Peace Process Is Moving Quite Fast The Ukraine Peace Process Is Moving Quite Fast

Here are the openings—and obstacles.

Aug 20, 2025 / Anatol Lieven

Trump and Putin walk side-by-side silhouetted

Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska

The war in Ukraine is a regional security and humanitarian tragedy, but regarding nuclear weapons, Washington and Moscow stand to benefit from working together.

Aug 15, 2025 / RootsAction and The American Committee for US-Russia Accord

Donald Trump, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (L), and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (R), sign the joint declaration “peace road map” following their trilateral meeting at the White House on August 8, 2025.

Trump’s “Corridor Wars” in the Caucasus Trump’s “Corridor Wars” in the Caucasus

His deals are informed by hyper-transactional dealmaking.

Aug 12, 2025 / Pietro A. Shakarian

Gazan children playing in the rubble of the Islamic Univerity

Challenging the Silence Over Palestine in the American Historical Association Challenging the Silence Over Palestine in the American Historical Association

Institutional complicity in injustice.

Jul 24, 2025 / Van Gosse

Demonstrators chant outside Kyiv’s Ivan Franko National Drama Theater on July 23, 2025, holding cardboard placards that read “Корупція аплодує” (“Corruption Applauds”) and “Вето на 12444” (“Veto Bill 12444”) to protest new legislation placing Ukraine’s anti‑corruption agencies under presidential control.

A New Wave of Protests Confronts Zelensky’s Move to Rein in Anti‑Corruption Agencies A New Wave of Protests Confronts Zelensky’s Move to Rein in Anti‑Corruption Agencies


These are the largest since the Russian invasion of 2022—and seem poised to continue.

Jul 24, 2025 / Jared Goyette

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