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Chernobyl

Chernobyl Tourism Spikes After Miniseries, Highlighting the Disaster’s Unknowable Truths

Dawns now the summer of Chernobyl.
By Chris Roberts
U.S. president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Four Seasons Arena on July 5, 2018 in Great Falls, Montana. President Trump held a campaign style 'Make America Great Again' rally in Great Falls, Montana with thousands in attendance.

No, President Trump, the KGB Is Not ‘Fine’

The free world ought to be very concerned.
By John R. Schindler
This photo taken on February 1, 2018 shows an engineer holding a silicon face against the head of a robot at a lab of a doll factory of EXDOLL, a firm based in the northeastern Chinese port city of Dalian. With China facing a massive gender gap and a greying population, a company wants to hook up lonely men and retirees with a new kind of companion: "Smart" sex dolls that can talk, play music and turn on dishwashers.

Big Tech Is the Next Space Race, and the US Is Already Losing

“We need to see what’s going on as kind of a shock to the system.”
By Jack Crosbie

Russia Is Alleging the British Staged Assad’s Use of Chemical Weapons

By Mikhail Klikushin
Jeremy Corbyn.

Jeremy Corbyn Was a Communist Spy

By John R. Schindler
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his New Year address to Russians in central Moscow on December 31, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Alexey NIKOLSKY (Photo credit should read )

Turf for ‘New Cold War’ Shifts to Elections in Eastern Europe

By John A. Tures
Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Patriarch of Russia Kirill and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, visits the New Jerusalem Orthodox Monastery outside Moscow on November 15, 2017.

Russia Conducts Nuclear Exercises Amid Orthodox End-Times Talk

By John R. Schindler
The USS Vicksburg cruiser ship is docked at Constanta port in Constanta, Romania.

Sluggish Europe Needs an Economic Engine to Boost Prosperity

By Harlan Ullman
President Donald Trump.

With Afghanistan, Third President’s a Charm

By Austin Bay
President John F. Kennedy in 1962.

On This Day in History: JFK Tells the World the US Is With Berlin

By Nicolaus Mills
Your brain may suffer if you stare at your phone too long while chasing Charzard.

Russian YouTuber Gets 3-Plus Years Probation for Playing Pokémon Go in Church

By John Bonazzo
CNN

Jake Tapper’s Message to Trump: ‘You Won—Get to Work and Stop Whining’

By Joe Lapointe
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi German invasion, by the Kremlin walls in Moscow on June 22, 2016.

Moscow Rules of Espionage Go Global—If You Think It’s KGB, It Is

By John R. Schindler
Which candidate do you resemble?

The Question of Campaign 2016: Where Have All the Fascists Gone?

By Austin Bay
Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.

Did the Yugoslavs Help Put Apollo 11 on the Moon?

By Noah Charney
Actor and singer Dean Reed dressed as a cowboy in a scene from a film, circa 1975.

The Tragic Love Song of Dean Reed, the Biggest Pop Star You’ve Never Heard Of

By Tim Sommer
Frederico Carvalhão Gil, a senior intelligence official was arrested this weekend in Rome.

NATO’s Big New Russian Spy Scandal

By John R. Schindler
Vladimir Putin and Yury Solomonov.

Father of Soviet Nuclear Program: ‘We Won’t Forget Where the United States Is’

By Mikhail Klikushin
Estonian President Toomas Ilves speaks at a talk entitled "The Estonia Model: Why a Free and Secure Internet Matter "at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, on April 21, 2015. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM

Tommy From Jersey and the Fate of Europe

By John R. Schindler
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MARCH 21: (ISRAEL OUT) Final preparations are made before US President Barack Obama's speech to Israeli students on March 21, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. This is President Obama's first visit as president to the region, and his itinerary includes meetings with the Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as a visit to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

American Aid to Israel Serves US National Interests

By Abraham H. Miller
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Moroccan King Mohammed VI (unseen) at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 15, 2016.

Another Defector Dead in Washington

By John R. Schindler
Anatoly Belsky's lithograph poster for Five Minutes, 1929. (Photo: Courtesy of the Merrill C. Berman Collection and the Jewish Museum)

How the Avant Garde Became Agitprop: Art and Film of the USSR at the Jewish Museum

By Walter Robinson
When students feel slighted, some schools unleash the big guns to intervene.

Can the United States Stop a War With Russia?

By Jack Hanick
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams with Muslim community leaders (Photo: Will Bredderman/New York Observer).

Brooklyn Borough President Plans Muslim Outreach After ISIS Arrests

By Will Bredderman
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