ANGEL OR DEVIL
The Realpolitik operator re-opened China for Nixon and found détente with the Soviets—and sent incalculable numbers of Americans, Vietnamese, and other human beings to their death.
Andrew Nagorski, a former Newsweek foreign correspondent and editor, is the author, most recently, of Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him To Freedom.
CRUNCH TIME
There’s nothing more dangerous for a strongman than showing signs of weakness. Putin’s cowardice is now clear for all to see.
OPENNESS
The West was euphoric with his dramatic steps to end the Cold War. But at home, his openness unleashed building pressures he couldn’t contain with half-measures toward freedom.
CREATURE OF HABIT
The father of psychoanalysis transformed how we think about the mind in general and sexuality in particular, but he was a real cigar-and-slippers guy around the house.
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KEEP IT TOGETHER
And the results could be disastrous.
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POINT OF NO RETURN
We cannot risk falling into the trap of a man who is ready to take the entire world down with him.
FAKE IT ’TIL YOU MAKE IT
It’s a high-stakes global show of defiance like no other.
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PAIN, NO PLEASURE
The Russian president thinks the brutal economic beating he is facing over the war in Ukraine could ultimately work to his advantage. But he is sorely mistaken.
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DASVIDANIYA!
If history is any indication, Vladimir Putin already has one foot in his political grave.
THE GREAT ESCAPE
The destruction of The Wall was a key symbolic act at the center of a much wider drama.