Josh White / 27 Jul 2020
All You Need is Cash
The Russia Report
British capitalism found a great friend in the Russian oligarchy.(...)
Russia
Matt Rubenstein / 01 Jul 2020
Did the Russians Do It?
When the Press Takes Sides
Nothing unusual here. The Taliban have been killing NATO troops in Afghanistan for nearly two decades. But this story was a little different. According to the New York Times, recent attacks on US and British forces have been partially sponsored by Russia.(...)
John Foster / 08 Jun 2020
Buried By Trump
The American Century is Finally Over
The narrative of the Atlantic world since the end of the Second World War has been one of American leadership. (...)
John Foster / 22 May 2020
Product of the System
Tony Woods’ Russia Without Putin
Everyone loves a good villain, especially one whose presence validates overlooking our own failings. (...)
Joel Schalit / 22 Apr 2020
The Italian Campaign
Russia Threatens the Press
The threat was unambiguous. “He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it,” wrote Russia's Defence Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov, on Facebook.(...)
Maxim Edwards / 08 Apr 2020
The Coronavirus Dictatorship Plan
Orbán’s Viral Gambit
As Hungary gets to grips with fighting the coronavirus pandemic, strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is in the spotlight of another international scandal. (...)
Joel Schalit / 11 Mar 2020
Protest and Survive
International Women’s Day in Berlin
Germany is drowning in a sea of hatred. No country is as plagued by far-right terrorism in Europe as the Bundesrepublik. Rarely is there a day without attacks on minorities and migrants.(...)
John Foster / 09 Mar 2020
Investing in Trump
David Enrich’s Dark Towers
Long ago, when the single income of a TV dad like Ward Cleaver or a Jim Anderson could support a family with cash to spare, banking was viewed, not without justice, as a boring profession. (...)
John Foster / 24 Feb 2020
Revenge on Germany
Miriam Gebhardt’s Crimes Unspoken
The rape of hundreds of thousands of German women in the waning days of the Second World War has historically gotten short shrift, both as crime and tragedy. (...)
John Foster / 24 Jan 2020
Remembrance Culture
Hope Harrison’s After the Berlin Wall
Memory is one of the most important elements of modern societies. Nowhere has its centrality been so fully illustrated than in Germany.(...)