President Trump’s First Foreign Policy Crisis: Balkan War Drums Beat Again Putin, like many Russians, views Western intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo as an affront to the Slavic Orthodox world, and he plans on revenge. By John R. Schindler
Times May Have Changed, But Oscars Still Suspenseful By all accounts—most notably the amusingly disenchanted commentaries by Caryn James, David Carr and Paula Schwartz in The New York By Andrew Sarris
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