Tocqueville answered the question “How bad can it get?” this way: “The most dangerous time for a bad government is usually ...

Barely two months into his second term, President Donald Trump has already become a consequential president. Unfortunately, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talked about the fighting in Ukraine, of course.

University of Arizona professor John Willerton has taken to the pages of the online journal 19Fortyfive to rhapsodize about ...

President Ronald Reagan’s admonition to General Secretary Gorbachev while standing before the Berlin Wall to “tear down this wall” actually begins even more movingly as he says that in this ...

Sakharov was released by Kremlin decree in 1986, after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and introduced his policy of glasnost. He and Bonner resumed their lives in Moscow. Sakharov travelled to ...

Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, even Gorbachev and Yeltsin, fervently wished for it but never even got close. Putin may feel it is now within his grasp, whatever happens next in Ukraine.

Even so, Thatcher was unnerved by Reagan's apparent willingness to consider mutual nuclear disarmament in discussion with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986. She flew hastily to ...

Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” – that Trump is now abandoning, and in fact inverting. America’s current leader is ready to waltz with the man who attacked an innocent neighbor. In all ...