Nick Hayes is a professor of history who holds the university chair in critical thinking at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minn.
Robert Mueller’s investigation widens, and new leaks from the White House come out every day. Morning after morning, Trump tweets his innocence and anger in vain. And Putin gloats.
To use the jargon of the espionage world, Putin has played Trump and is dealing the next hand.
Here’s what’s behind Russia’s ruble crisis and why Vladimir Putin is offering no change in his unstable policies.
Commemorations for the anniversary of Gavrilo Princip’s killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand keep old animosities alive.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Kiev and Moscow are indulging in nationalist rhetoric that sounds unnervingly similar to the build-up to the tragic Balkan conflict of the 1990s.
The Russian president is showcasing himself in a Winter Olympics media bliz following the terrorist attack in Volgograd.
Maybe he shouldn’t get the prize, but you’ve got to admit Vladimir Putin’s on a roll.
President Obama’s visit to St. Petersburg is an unexpected gift to Vladimir Putin.
The case offers the Russian president an opportunity to deliver a bit of payback to the Obama administration.
The brothers were likely trying to draw attention to themselves and an imagined Chechnya forged of refugees’ resentments and fantasies.
Orphans are merely an opportune vehicle for Vladimir Putin to carry the Russian right’s anti-American message.
Will drone warfare be the long-term legacy of the “war on terrorism”?
His task in the Middle East, like Truman’s in Europe, is not to re-make the world in our own image but to prevent the area from destroying itself.
With his popularity problems there, a Romney victory would bring Europe’s anti-American opinion back to Bush-era levels.
The presidential candidates need to start talk about our policy.
Recent developments in Russia should spark debate among candidates.
Libya is a wake-up call that the Arab Spring’s revolutions are not over and that foreign policy has a way of inviting itself into U.S. elections.
If the candidates have their way, this election will not be about foreign policy.
Back on the road in Russia again this summer, a view of the wild events since the election.
Bukoski brings to life the gritty past of Superior’s Polish-American and blue-collar community.
