cold war

Following World War II, a tense relationship developed between the United States and the Soviet Union, two of the world’s superpowers. Marked by deep ...

Hal Brands, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has la...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — After weeks of reverses, Russia’s army is still losing ground in the battlefields of Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin’s response,...

Some would say the 20th century ended at Y2K — midnight on Jan. 1, 2000. Others would say that, as a historical phenomenon, it extended until the shoc...

The death of the last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, has understandably triggered an avalanche of tributes to the man who oversaw the ...

Earlier this month, Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated his 91st birthday in obscurity at his home near Moscow, the forgotten leader of Russia’s brief, unsuc...

Delegate after delegate came up to the rostrum Monday at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly and condemned Russia’s invasion of U...

No matter how Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ends, it already marks a turning point in history: the end of a 30-year period of relative peace in...

A clash of civilizations is upon us. Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine doesn’t just herald a new era in European security, it underlines a growing ...

Bad ideas never truly go away. So it is that an old left-wing trope from the Cold War has currency again, both on the populist right and among progres...

WASHINGTON — The world is changing faster than our sluggish political leaders — let alone the public — can manage. The COVID-19 virus and climate chan...

The Biden administration is hesitant to call our competition with China a new Cold War, even though Beijing has zero qualms about making the parallels...

If you were born in this country, there is a high probability that you know less about the Constitution and American history than do immigrants who be...

In a summer that saw the statues of such American luminaries as Thomas Jefferson and Ulysses S. Grant come crashing to the ground, a new statue, and 4...

WASHINGTON — With his interference in the 2016 election, Russian President Vladimir Putin achieved something that none of his murderous Soviet predece...

WASHINGTON — You can kick the can down the road, but when Kim Jong Un announces, as he did last Sunday, that "we have reached the final stage in prepa...

WASHINGTON — Twenty-five years ago — December 1991 — communism died, the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union disappeared. It was the largest breakup o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Late in a life lived unnervingly near the nuclear abyss, William J. Perry is on a mission to warn of a "real and growing danger" of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama launched a blistering denunciation of opposition to his Iran deal Wednesday, arguing that none of the critici...