Russia could soon face the same crises that Leonid Brezhenv's Soviet Union faced in the 1970s.

By standing up for their rights and making a claim to become a normal Western nation, the Ukrainian democrats have given hope to other peoples of the former USSR.

Aquarter century has passed since the publication of "The Health Crisis in the USSR."

A rumor is spreading that capitalism is by its nature corrupt, and only governmental control can save the wretched masses since the communist state has withered away.

It is time for Americansactively toopposeauthoritarian regimes such as that of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.

What should we call the literary age of Vasily Grossman, who wrote "Life and Fate," the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century?

An emboldened nuclear Iran could prove destabilizing to the Gulf region and might encourage the United States to adopt a containment strategy.

Half a century later, the Bay of Pigs is still the mother of all American military and foreign-policy disasters. It marks the start of America's bizarre habit of fighting our enemies with one arm pinned firmly behind our back, and dumping our friends when the going gets dicey. It also offers some pungent lessons for our current messes in Libya and Afghanistan.