Tensions are heightening while Russia pulls back.

What Germany’s foremost philosopher doesn’t understand.

In Ukraine, the world is learning what Israel never forgot.

Putin’s arc of steel.

Basmanny justice.

The anti-Western, anti-democratic ideology of the self-appointed guardians of human rights.

The fantasy world of the realists.

Taking sides on the world stage.

The multibillionaire has gone almost unnoticed in the world of philanthropy.

And what Henry Kissinger gets wrong about the war in Ukraine.

Europe can no longer rely on imported Russian gas.

The New York Times sings a familiar tune.

Mediating between Putin and the U.S.

The Herzl paradox.