Russia’s president is gambling the future of his country to consolidate his grip on power. But his economy is a wreck and the people who support him today may well revile him tomorrow... read more
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January 03, 2014
‘To think critically is always to be hostile,” the political philosopher Hannah Arendt declared in what turned out to be... read more
September 17, 2013
As the 25th anniversary of the seismic upheavals of 1989 approaches, EWI’s Andrew Nagorski writes about his experiences covering Lech... read more
July 12, 2013
In 1914, shortly after Germany invaded neutral Belgium, the German authorities exacted revenge for the shooting of several of their soldiers on patrol in Louvain. They executed more... read more
March 22, 2013
As a young girl, she idolized Marlene Dietrich; much later she sang with Charles Aznavour and was compared to Edith Piaf. Vera Gran... read more
February 11, 2013
Pope Benedict XVI's relatively unmomentous papacy may yet prove to be of resounding consequence.
Pope Benedict XVI's papacy has not been known for stellar moments, yet he is ending... read more
January 03, 2013
By Andrew Nagorski
I quickly—and often—irritated the Kremlin after starting my assignment as Newsweek’s Moscow bureau chief in May 1981.
Solidarity was on the rise in Poland. I... read more
January 01, 2013
One evening in June 1940, an excited crowd in Berlin awaited Adolf Hitler's arrival at the opera. The German army was scoring victory after victory in Europe at the time, and when the dictator... read more
July 16, 2012
At the entrance to Red Square, a large, striking statue greets visitors. Erected in 1995 in time for the 50th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, it depicts Marshal Georgy Zhukov on his... read more
June 19, 2012
In the very early 1920s, when Adolf Hitler was still only a local rabble rouser in Munich, two men from Munichs American consulate made a point of observing his rallies: Robert Murphy, the young... read more