Germany’s striking move over the weekend is an example the United States must follow. It’s time to end the neoliberal free trade regime.

Forget Russia’s tanks. Its economy is more vulnerable, and our economic sanctions are more potent, than we knew.

Olaf Scholz, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and Joe Biden have chosen: They stand against thuggish authoritarianism. Will the world and the GOP join them?

The leading Russia expert speaks with Michael Tomasky about the Russian president’s aims in Ukraine and the global crisis he could create.

Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Steve Bannon are throwing the Ukrainian people to the wolves for the sake of scoring culture-war points.

Putin has spent eight years trying, and failing, to dominate Ukraine. The commencement of hostilities is an admission of that failure.

Political leaders don’t consult economists before they start wars. If they did, we’d have world peace.

The former president’s apologists are claiming that his recklessness would have been more effective in countering Putin’s aggression in Ukraine.

Biden, like his German counterpart, is asking his country to sacrifice for the greater good of punishing Russia. Will British Prime Minister Boris Johnson do the same?

Putin is Hitler. Biden is weak. Trump was strong. Let’s nuke ’em. Yadda yadda yadda. Here’s hoping the president isn’t listening to this nonsense.

World War II comparisons are a dime a dozen these days, but a different cataclysm of the 1940s is more instructive.

Should military conflict break out on the Ukrainian border, the administration will have to resist the cheerleaders of American intervention.

Afghanistan is in the midst of a desperate humanitarian crisis, and the White House seems bent on deepening it.

Whenever global trouble boils, our foreign policy big shots say U.S. credibility is at stake unless we act. Alas, the record shows that acting is often where the problems start.

Legislation with bipartisan support might bring more natural gas online, further imperiling climate targets.

The CIA’s abrupt turnabout on the issue of imaginary microwave ray guns left a lot of lawmakers without a favorite political prop.

Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar’s not the only lawmaker illicitly involved with the regime, he’s just the one who (maybe) got caught.

The president’s fear of blowback has him slow-walking the Iran deal—while Tehran is getting closer to building a bomb.

Largely confined to the White House due to Covid, and kept away from the press by an overprotective staff, the president broke free for almost two hours on Wednesday.

Exporting American gas to fight Russia means locking in methane emissions for years to come.