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Mao Zedong
July 5, 2023
Tori Otten
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Calls for Lifting Taboo on Quoting Hitler
Mark Robinson made the declaration at the far-right Moms for Liberty summit.
June 23, 2023
MagazineWin McCormack
Black Cat or White Cat
Which will catch the most mice?
March 17, 2023
MagazineWin McCormack
The Thucydides Trap
Can the United States and China avoid military conflict?
June 22, 2022
Timothy Noah
I Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass About Trump’s “State of Mind”
He may well be incapable of feeling guilt. So was Mao. And that’s a defense?
February 18, 2022
Walter Shapiro
A Better Parallel to the Russia-Ukraine Crisis: The Communist Takeover of China
World War II comparisons are a dime a dozen these days, but a different cataclysm of the 1940s is more instructive.
October 28, 2020
Frank Smyth
The Myths Fueling Today’s Armed Right
How the NRA seeded the storylines animating the violent groups that will be patrolling this year’s election
January 22, 2019
Robert Foyle Hunwick
Trump and Xi: A Tale of Two Egos
The leaders facing off in the U.S.-China trade war are obsessed with prestige.
January 8, 2019
Ryu Spaeth
The Painful Price of Becoming Jackie Chan
A new memoir by the legendary kung fu star reveals what it took to become one of Hong Kong’s greatest sons.
October 23, 2018
Jeet Heer
White House Council of Economic Advisers denounces socialism, Marx, Lenin, Mao, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren.
June 12, 2018
Jeet Heer
A brief history of American presidents praising dictators.
March 22, 2018
Colin Dickey
Why Dictators Write
What Saddam Hussein’s romance novels and Kim Jong-il’s film criticism reveal about authoritarianism.
January 5, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
This enormous, golden statue of Mao shows that his personality cult is alive and well.
November 15, 2012
Christina Larson
Goodbye to the Hu Jintao Era
March 16, 2012
Nick Robins-Early, Perry Stein, Eric Wen
The Strange Pop Culture Tastes of Dictators
February 22, 2012
Andrew J. Nathan
The Partial Reformer
March 21, 2011
Martin Peretz
Tel Aviv Journal: Muammar Qaddafi’s Reading List and Mine
September 8, 2010
Martin Peretz
The Dovish Editor At More-Than-Dovish Ha'aretz Praises Bibi Netanyahu, And Very Deservedly
March 17, 2010
James Mann
Behold China
November 19, 2009
John B. Judis
Obama in Seoul: My Problem with Foreign News
February 15, 2008
Michelle Cottle
Trade Negotiations, '70s Style

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