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Today’s GOP Would’ve Rooted for Drago in ‘Rocky IV’

‘I MUST BREAK YOU’

Sen. John Fetterman suggested his Republican colleagues are so pro-Russia that they’d root for the bad guys in a 1980s Cold War film.

Matt Lewis | Published Feb 15, 2024
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Russia, OPEC Drive U.S., China Into an Unlikely Partnership

NOT YOUR FATHER’S COLD WAR

Get your head out of the past—there’s a vital common interest between the 21st century’s two superpowers.

David Rothkopf | Published Oct 07, 2022

The Cold War Is Dead—Not Even Tom Cruise Can Bring It Back

the past is past

There has been a lot of loose talk lately about how conflicts with Russia and China are rebooting the Cold War. That’s dumb—and dangerous—thinking.

Benjamin Cunningham | Published Sep 16, 2022

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NATO Prepares for Cold War II, Trying to Avoid World War III

A BALANCING ACT

Biden and Western leaders meeting in Brussels are working on defending Ukraine and NATO countries, containing Russia, and avoiding a global conflict.

David Rothkopf | Published Mar 24, 2022
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Sec. of State Blinken on Russia, Ukraine, and NATO’s Rebirth

GLOBAL RESET

Blinken talks with The Daily Beast about the Biden administration's response to the Russia/Ukraine crisis, part of the biggest reset to the international order since the Cold War.

David Rothkopf | Published Feb 07, 2022

Louis Menand Dynamites the Cliche of the Sleepy Fifties

dig deeper

The Pulitzer-winning historian spent a decade researching and writing “The Free World,” a reexamination of Cold War America that turns a lot of old assumptions inside out.

Scott Porch | Published Oct 01, 2021
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Cold War Kids’ Nathan Willett: My Evangelical Struggle

BELIEVE

The frontman of the rock band Cold War Kids has largely stayed quiet about his faith. Here, he writes about his journey to—and away from—evangelical Christianity.

Nathan Willett | Published Sep 22, 2021

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly About Cold-War America

AMERICAN CENTURY

Louis Menand’s magisterial “The Free World” chronicles the post-WWII decades in which American culture came into its own while its imperialist impulses came to grief.

Nicolaus Mills | Published May 09, 2021
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Inside Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession With Russia

COLD WAR VIBES

In this excerpt from “Cold War II: Hollywood’s Renewed Obsession With Russia,” author Ian Scott examines the movies’ recent bout of Russophobia, including J. Law’s ‘Red Sparrow.’

Ian Scott | Published Jan 03, 2021

Famous Double-Agent George Blake Dies at 98, Kremlin Reports

HIGH PRAISE FROM PUTIN

After he was discovered to be working for the Soviet Union, he was jailed but later escaped to Moscow.

Ana Lucia Murillo | Published Dec 26, 2020

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