This article appears in the August 2025 print edition with the headline “Damn You All to Hell!” When you buy a book using a ...

The novelist Thomas Mallon's journals reveal a side of the '80s that the standard gay histories—and standard conservative ...

When I studied international law in Heidelberg 60 years ago, international law was still considered the law of nations to ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, who served as the Soviet Union’s final leader and is credited with transitioning the former country, and Eastern Europe, to post-communist governance, died Tuesday. Foreign ...

Striking parallels between the last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Donald Trump suggest the American ‘empire’ may be in trouble, writes David Martin ...

Much of my 2025 will be devoted to co-authoring a book with my great English friend, David Richards. The title is "The Great ...

Is Mikhail Baryshnikov the Last of the Highbrow Superstars? Fifty years since he left the Soviet Union, he insists on using his huge fame to bring attention to difficult, esoteric art.

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, left, and then US president Ronald Reagan sign a treaty eliminating US and Soviet intermediate-range and shorter-range nuke missile on December 08 1987 in ...

You might be surprised, but the nickname used for Trump in the Kremlin is the American Gorbachev. For them, Mikhail Gorbachev is not a democrat or a reformer.

The new tome blames everything on Mikhail Gorbachev, castigating him as an incompetent bureaucrat who succumbed to pressure from the United States. Then there are the 28 pages on the war in Ukraine.

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV’S death has prompted a torrent of commentary confirming the old adage that “the history we write tells more about the present than the past.” Some pay fitting tribute to ...