Andrew Nagorski

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.

There’s nothing more dangerous for a strongman than showing signs of weakness. Putin’s cowardice is now clear for all to see.

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.

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.

And the results could be disastrous.

We cannot risk falling into the trap of a man who is ready to take the entire world down with him.

It’s a high-stakes global show of defiance like no other.

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.

If history is any indication, Vladimir Putin already has one foot in his political grave.

The destruction of The Wall was a key symbolic act at the center of a much wider drama.