The subtlest way to undermine democracy is to fake it.

As the coronavirus racks the globe, White House lackeys and lobbyists are converging on the former Yugoslavia and reopening old wounds.

The Russian president is planning a lifetime tenure—and acting as a beacon for budding autocrats, from Turkmenistan to the Trump White House.

Alex Gibney’s new documentary about Mikhail Khodorkovsky presents a complex picture of a dissident.

Meet David Booth, the fake news peddler who is helping Russia spread its lies.

How a fiction writer transformed the NSA whistleblower into a tragic hero

A radioactive mess near the Arctic Circle suggests our next superpower arms race will be even more foolish than the last one.

Having only a hazy idea of what, exactly, fascism consists of makes it hard to explain why fascist rhetoric needs to be excluded from public discourse.

Barry Sussman, who edited Woodward and Bernstein at The Washington Post, discusses the president, Putin, and what the media must fix.

A pro-Trump intellectual's attempt to ascribe a method to the president's madness shows just how hopeless that is.

Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 sparked an international crisis.

Thanks to Trump and the Russia investigation, the liberal network is booming. But is it selling its viewers a conspiratorial fantasy?

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, triumphing in Ukraine's first round of presidential elections, has become the world's latest entertainer-politician.

Long before Trump came on the scene, key congressional Republicans had been sidling up to nativist and authoritarian leaders across the globe.

The U.S. government went looking for someone to blame for Russia's interference in the 2016 election—and found Maria Butina, the perfect scapegoat.

There's reason to be concerned about the bureau's actions. But there's also reason to believe they made the right call.