Along the northern flank of Ukrainian-controlled territory on the outskirts of the eastern city of Bakhmut, tank crews from the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade are waiting for the ground to dry up so they can begin a long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces. The tank operators continue to support Ukrainian infantry …

In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New York City, followed by another two years later. They called on ‘the hundreds of poets, novelists, dramatists, critics, short story writers and journalists’ to discuss the ‘rapid crumbling of capitalism’ and the beckoning of another war. They were electric …

Ukraine has little chance of achieving economic (and democratic) development with an angry and vengeful neighbor spreading disinformation and nurturing discontent and violence, Harold James, a professor of history and international relations at Princeton University, told Project Syndicate in an interview. As long as Putinism is seen as a viable …