One cheer for the former dictator.

“The freedom of enslaved people is America’s business.”

It brought more allies and more citizens.

Richard Pipes, in memoriam.

The collapse of identity.

Unlike Gorbachev, Iran doesn’t want to improve its relationship to the US.

Western leaders believe that Hassan Rouhani, like Mikhail Gorbachev, is a leader they can do business with. He isn’t even a leader.