Ideas

Ukraine Needs More Military Aid from NATO—And Fast

As the Russian ground advance in Ukraine begins to gain a bit more momentum and encircle Kyiv, the West must consider its options. Despite the heroic efforts of the Ukrainians, facilitated by a deluge of...

By James Stavridis March 14, 2022

Will China Try to Stop Russia’s War in Ukraine?

Who can stop Russia’s war in Ukraine? European and U.S. diplomats have worked hard to win help from China, a country powerful enough and close enough to Russia, they hope, to change Vladimir Putin’s plans....

By Ian Bremmer March 14, 2022

Ukraine Must Be the Last War of the Age of Impunity

Russia’s invasion has rightly put Ukraine in headlines around the world. The brazen effort to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty and now the growing attacks on civilian targets have shocked the global public. But while what is...

By David Miliband March 11, 2022

How Ukrainian Citizens Are Mobilizing Against Russia

As the Ukrainian armed and territorial defense forces fiercely resist Russian invasion, so do ordinary civilians across the country. The bravery of Ukrainian people takes different forms: mass protest rallies with blue and yellow flags...

By Olga Tokariuk March 11, 2022

Russia’s War in Ukraine Spells Disaster for Central Asia

The West needs to look to the Russia-dependent economies of Central Asia to mitigate collateral damage of sanctions

By Bradley Jardine March 10, 2022

The World Has a Russian Oil Problem. Here's the Best Way to Solve It

The Biden Administration has been deploying seasoned American diplomats around the globe to drum up extra oil production, so far with few results. The President has even weighed in himself publicly, with minimal impact. The...

By Amy Myers Jaffe March 10, 2022

Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins on the Ukraine Information War

The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia's invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they're seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what's known as...

By Karl Vick March 9, 2022

How Russia Is Beating the West at Deterrence

Deterrence is working in the Ukraine crisis, just not for the right side. In this tragedy’s most catastrophic blunder, the United States and its allies failed to deter Russia from invading. President Joe Biden’s plan...

By John Bolton March 9, 2022

Only the Threat of Force Will Stop Putin Going Beyond Ukraine

In the spring of 2014, as Russia illegally annexed Crimea, my son Raimundas was completing a Russian language course in Moscow. Though he had been planning to continue on to a master’s program in England,...

By Vygaudas Usackas March 8, 2022

There's Still Time to Make a Better, More Ethical Web

Twelve years ago, I was 24 years old when I handed my boss a printed piece of paper with the description for a job I believed should exist but didn’t: a reporter covering the emerging...

By Laurie Segall March 8, 2022

How the Ukraine War Could End

As tragic as things already are in Ukraine, they will likely get even worse in the days and weeks to come. Vladimir Putin deserves every bit of punishment this war may exact on him, on...

By Michael O’Hanlon March 7, 2022

How the Arab World Is Responding to the War in Ukraine

Most Arab states generally see in Russia a substantial global power that continues have relevance in their region

By H.A. Hellyer March 7, 2022

There's Much More the U.S. Can to Help Ukraine

The Biden Administration’s efforts to help Ukraine, through sanctions and intermittent weapons shipments, may not be enough to save Kyiv or prevent Putin from consolidating his gains if and when the capital falls. Despite their...

By Wess Mitchell March 7, 2022

Here's Why the U.S. Doesn't Mind India's Silence On Ukraine

Keeping quiet about the invasion of Ukraine by longstanding ally Russia suits India's strategic goals—and Washington's

By Debasish Roy Chowdhury March 6, 2022

A Ukrainian Parliamentarian Speaks Out

Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun speaks to TIME about life in Kyiv under the Russian invasion

By Aryn Baker March 6, 2022

The Russian Grand Strategy Guiding the Invasion of Ukraine

We have been living in a golden age, what scholars of international relations call the “Long Peace.” Since 1945, the world has fought astonishingly few interstate wars, and no total wars—where all restraint goes out...

By Ian Morris March 5, 2022

Putin’s War on Ukraine Shows the Power of History

It is Ukraine’s tragedy that the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is a textbook example of how to draw the wrong lessons from the past

By Tarik Cyril Amar March 4, 2022

What Putin’s Nazi Talk Reveals About His Plans for Ukraine

Language defines reality. Language defines who is a "real" person, and who isn’t. He who controls language controls life and death. That was the conclusion of the literature professor Viktor Klemperer, as he tried to...

By Peter Pomerantsev March 4, 2022

Why These Westerners Disavowed Imperialism to Fight for India's Independence

For Western historians, the news of democratically minded volunteers from other countries enlisting to fight with the Ukranians against their Russian invaders might bring to mind the creation of the International Brigades during the Spanish...

By Ramachandra Guha March 4, 2022

What Will Germany's Biggest Military Since World War II Look Like? No One Knows

Wenden is a perfectly ordinary German word. You can use it to say you want to flip a pancake, turn to a friend, tighten a screw, round a corner, consult an authority, or appeal to...

By Peter Kuras March 4, 2022

Historians on What Putin Gets Wrong About ‘Denazification’ in Ukraine

In seven days of fighting, Russia has launched hundreds of missiles into Ukraine, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported Mar. 3 that about a million refugees have fled the country. The U.N....

By Olivia B. Waxman March 3, 2022

How We Chose the 2022 Women of the Year

The list highlights 12 extraordinary leaders working for a more equal world

By Naina Bajekal and Lucy Feldman March 3, 2022

Could Protests Against the Ukraine War Be Putin's Undoing?

Demonstrations in Russia against the invasion of its neighbor could eventually snowball into an anti-Putin movement

By Arik Burakovsky March 3, 2022

Why Russia Hasn't Launched Major Cyber Attacks

In the relatively short and rapidly evolving history of cyber conflict, perhaps nothing has been established with greater certainty and more widely accepted than the idea that Russia has significant cyber capabilities and isn’t afraid...

By Josephine Wolff March 2, 2022

Bill Clinton: Paul Farmer Tried to Heal the World

Dr. Paul Farmer, who died unexpectedly on Feb. 21 at the age of 62 in Rwanda, was one of the most extraordinary people I have ever known. As co-founder of the global health and social-justice organization...

By Bill Clinton March 2, 2022

How NATO Pilots Could Help Defend Ukraine

This past week, it’s rumored that a pilot known as the “Ghost of Kyiv” defeated six Russian aircraft before being shot down and killed. If true, this makes him the first fighter ace of the...

By Elliot Ackerman March 2, 2022

Germany Can't Rely on Russian Energy. It Doesn't Know What to Do Instead

The prospect of warmer weather is brightening spirits throughout Germany after another tough winter—and nobody is more eager for spring than Olaf Scholz. Germany’s chancellor knows that prolonged cold weather means high demand for natural...

By Peter Kuras March 2, 2022

The Families of George Floyd and Rodney King Didn’t Ask to Be Part of History

At the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, a meeting of families thrust into history against their will

By Janell Ross/Washington, D.C. March 1, 2022

Europe’s Illusion of Peace Has Been Irrevocably Shattered

War truly is the father of all and king of all, as Heraclitus said. A little over a week ago Europeans were still debating COVID-19 and hoping for an end to the pandemic. In Brussels...

By Bruno Maçães March 1, 2022

Ukraine's Electrical Grid Shows How Hard It Is to Escape from Russia's Grasp

Ukraine has been invaded because it tried to break from Russia’s orbit and lean westward. Its effort to join the western world was most visibly on display during the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, also known...

By Suriya Jayanti March 1, 2022

The Crisis in Ukraine Has Disturbing Echoes of the 1930s

If the 1930s teach us anything, it is that things can fall apart easily. An international order carefully held together through institutions designed to preserve peace can unravel overnight. Faced with German aggression, the post-Versailles...

By Cristina Florea February 28, 2022

How Putin United the World Against Him

What would it take to persuade the European Union to ship weapons into a war zone for the first time in its history? To get Germany to sharply increase its military spending? To inspire famously...

By Ian Bremmer February 28, 2022

The U.S. Must Support Ukraine, But China Must Be Our Priority

How should America respond to Russia’s abominable invasion of Ukraine? This is a question of immense importance. Right now, there is more heat than light in the discussion. Given the momentous stakes, Americans must respond...

By Elbridge A. Colby February 27, 2022

The Vital Missing Link in the U.S. Sanctions Against Russia

The sanctions package the White House has implemented against Russia in the last 48 hours is remarkable. It is broad, deep, and targeted all at once. It is also almost certainly going to be more...

By Suriya Jayanti February 26, 2022

Even If Russia Wins, It Won't Do So Easily

In the early hours of Feb. 23, Liubov Tsybulska, an adviser to Ukraine’s government and military, woke from a terrible dream. “I was screaming but my voice was gone,” she tells me over Signal. “When...

By Michael D. Weiss February 25, 2022

Putin Can Attack Ukraine But He Can't Take Away My Home

'A thousand years of Russian imperial ambition had finally arrived, on my doorstep.'

By Iryna Kyporenko February 25, 2022

Putin's Attack on Ukraine Is an Attempt to Delay His Own Inevitable Demise

Vladimir Putin is an old man scared of death trying to turn back time. Ukraine and Ukrainians are as his blood sacrifice. His invasion of their country is his attempt to forestall his personal, inevitable...

By Peter Pomerantsev February 25, 2022

The Pain of Watching From Afar as Putin Attacks My Country

I woke up this morning at 4 a.m. to the sound of my parents screaming. Our family in Kyiv had called to say that Russia had launched an attack on Ukraine. I grabbed my phone...

By Valeriia Voshchevska February 24, 2022

Knowing the Origins of COVID-19 Won't Change Much

Over two years since the first cases started appearing in Wuhan, China, there is much we don’t know about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19. But a quick resolution to that question is...

By Robert C. Gallo and Dean T. Jamison February 23, 2022

How the West Can Stop Putin

Just before I became Supreme Allied Commander at NATO in 2009, Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Georgia, a small, democratic, former Soviet Republic in the Caucuses. He used a trumped up “incident” and crushed his...

By James Stavridis February 23, 2022

How Paul Farmer Changed Medicine

Dr. Paul Farmer, a physician, medical anthropologist, and mentor to many, died on Monday in Butaro, Rwanda. Partners in Health, the organization he co-founded, confirmed his death in a tweet on Monday. He was 62....

By Gunisha Kaur February 22, 2022

The Last Person Who Believes in Western Intervention

I usually love the Olympics, but I have found these games difficult to watch. Whether it was the cynical use of a Uighur torchbearer by the Chinese, or that Russia seemed to be biding its...

By Elliot Ackerman February 21, 2022

How Wealthy Were the Founding Fathers?

In 1776, as they lined up in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence, the Founders attested quite literally to its final words, “We pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” What exactly...

By Willard Sterne Randall February 21, 2022

Why a New Iranian Nuclear Deal Still Seems Unlikely

In Vienna, an eighth round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program continues with little cause for hope that a deal is near. The Biden Administration wants a return to the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of...

By Ian Bremmer February 18, 2022

History Demands We Preserve the Wreck of America's Last Slave Ship

The wreck of the Clotilda, the last ship to bring enslaved Africans to the United States, remains buried in mud on the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama, exactly where I discovered the long-lost...

By Ben Raines February 18, 2022

A Catholic Case for Nuclear Disarmament

It strikes me as a subtle form of blasphemy that we human beings have created weapons that can utterly destroy our planet

By John C. Wester February 17, 2022

Feb	MAR	Apr
	17
2021	2022	2023

To End COVID-19, We Have to Admit That We’ve Failed

One Year After Atlanta Shootings, Why We’re Still Struggling With Anti-AAPI Hate

Ukraine’s Growing Fuel Crisis Will Cause Global Hunger and Worsen Inflation

I Know the Harm Florida’s Don’t Say Gay Bill Can Do

Ideas

To End COVID-19, We Have to Admit That We’ve Failed

One Year After Atlanta Shootings, Why We’re Still Struggling With Anti-AAPI Hate

Ukraine’s Growing Fuel Crisis Will Cause Global Hunger and Worsen Inflation

I Know the Harm Florida’s Don’t Say Gay Bill Can Do

Ukraine Needs More Military Aid from NATO—And Fast

As the Russian ground advance in Ukraine begins to gain a bit more momentum and encircle Kyiv, the West must consider its options. Despite the heroic efforts of the Ukrainians, facilitated by a deluge of...

Will China Try to Stop Russia’s War in Ukraine?

Who can stop Russia’s war in Ukraine? European and U.S. diplomats have worked hard to win help from China, a country powerful enough and close enough to Russia, they hope, to change Vladimir Putin’s plans....

Ukraine Must Be the Last War of the Age of Impunity

Russia’s invasion has rightly put Ukraine in headlines around the world. The brazen effort to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty and now the growing attacks on civilian targets have shocked the global public. But while what is...

How Ukrainian Citizens Are Mobilizing Against Russia

As the Ukrainian armed and territorial defense forces fiercely resist Russian invasion, so do ordinary civilians across the country. The bravery of Ukrainian people takes different forms: mass protest rallies with blue and yellow flags...

Russia’s War in Ukraine Spells Disaster for Central Asia

The West needs to look to the Russia-dependent economies of Central Asia to mitigate collateral damage of sanctions

The World Has a Russian Oil Problem. Here's the Best Way to Solve It

The Biden Administration has been deploying seasoned American diplomats around the globe to drum up extra oil production, so far with few results. The President has even weighed in himself publicly, with minimal impact. The...

Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins on the Ukraine Information War

The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia's invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they're seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what's known as...

How Russia Is Beating the West at Deterrence

Deterrence is working in the Ukraine crisis, just not for the right side. In this tragedy’s most catastrophic blunder, the United States and its allies failed to deter Russia from invading. President Joe Biden’s plan...

Only the Threat of Force Will Stop Putin Going Beyond Ukraine

In the spring of 2014, as Russia illegally annexed Crimea, my son Raimundas was completing a Russian language course in Moscow. Though he had been planning to continue on to a master’s program in England,...

There's Still Time to Make a Better, More Ethical Web

Twelve years ago, I was 24 years old when I handed my boss a printed piece of paper with the description for a job I believed should exist but didn’t: a reporter covering the emerging...

How the Ukraine War Could End

As tragic as things already are in Ukraine, they will likely get even worse in the days and weeks to come. Vladimir Putin deserves every bit of punishment this war may exact on him, on...

How the Arab World Is Responding to the War in Ukraine

Most Arab states generally see in Russia a substantial global power that continues have relevance in their region

There's Much More the U.S. Can to Help Ukraine

The Biden Administration’s efforts to help Ukraine, through sanctions and intermittent weapons shipments, may not be enough to save Kyiv or prevent Putin from consolidating his gains if and when the capital falls. Despite their...

Here's Why the U.S. Doesn't Mind India's Silence On Ukraine

Keeping quiet about the invasion of Ukraine by longstanding ally Russia suits India's strategic goals—and Washington's

A Ukrainian Parliamentarian Speaks Out

Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun speaks to TIME about life in Kyiv under the Russian invasion

The Russian Grand Strategy Guiding the Invasion of Ukraine

We have been living in a golden age, what scholars of international relations call the “Long Peace.” Since 1945, the world has fought astonishingly few interstate wars, and no total wars—where all restraint goes out...

Putin’s War on Ukraine Shows the Power of History

It is Ukraine’s tragedy that the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, is a textbook example of how to draw the wrong lessons from the past

What Putin’s Nazi Talk Reveals About His Plans for Ukraine

Language defines reality. Language defines who is a "real" person, and who isn’t. He who controls language controls life and death. That was the conclusion of the literature professor Viktor Klemperer, as he tried to...

Why These Westerners Disavowed Imperialism to Fight for India's Independence

For Western historians, the news of democratically minded volunteers from other countries enlisting to fight with the Ukranians against their Russian invaders might bring to mind the creation of the International Brigades during the Spanish...

What Will Germany's Biggest Military Since World War II Look Like? No One Knows

Wenden is a perfectly ordinary German word. You can use it to say you want to flip a pancake, turn to a friend, tighten a screw, round a corner, consult an authority, or appeal to...

Historians on What Putin Gets Wrong About ‘Denazification’ in Ukraine

In seven days of fighting, Russia has launched hundreds of missiles into Ukraine, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported Mar. 3 that about a million refugees have fled the country. The U.N....

How We Chose the 2022 Women of the Year

The list highlights 12 extraordinary leaders working for a more equal world

Could Protests Against the Ukraine War Be Putin's Undoing?

Demonstrations in Russia against the invasion of its neighbor could eventually snowball into an anti-Putin movement

Why Russia Hasn't Launched Major Cyber Attacks

In the relatively short and rapidly evolving history of cyber conflict, perhaps nothing has been established with greater certainty and more widely accepted than the idea that Russia has significant cyber capabilities and isn’t afraid...

Bill Clinton: Paul Farmer Tried to Heal the World

Dr. Paul Farmer, who died unexpectedly on Feb. 21 at the age of 62 in Rwanda, was one of the most extraordinary people I have ever known. As co-founder of the global health and social-justice organization...

How NATO Pilots Could Help Defend Ukraine

This past week, it’s rumored that a pilot known as the “Ghost of Kyiv” defeated six Russian aircraft before being shot down and killed. If true, this makes him the first fighter ace of the...

Germany Can't Rely on Russian Energy. It Doesn't Know What to Do Instead

The prospect of warmer weather is brightening spirits throughout Germany after another tough winter—and nobody is more eager for spring than Olaf Scholz. Germany’s chancellor knows that prolonged cold weather means high demand for natural...

The Families of George Floyd and Rodney King Didn’t Ask to Be Part of History

At the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, a meeting of families thrust into history against their will

Europe’s Illusion of Peace Has Been Irrevocably Shattered

War truly is the father of all and king of all, as Heraclitus said. A little over a week ago Europeans were still debating COVID-19 and hoping for an end to the pandemic. In Brussels...

Ukraine's Electrical Grid Shows How Hard It Is to Escape from Russia's Grasp

Ukraine has been invaded because it tried to break from Russia’s orbit and lean westward. Its effort to join the western world was most visibly on display during the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, also known...

The Crisis in Ukraine Has Disturbing Echoes of the 1930s

If the 1930s teach us anything, it is that things can fall apart easily. An international order carefully held together through institutions designed to preserve peace can unravel overnight. Faced with German aggression, the post-Versailles...

How Putin United the World Against Him

What would it take to persuade the European Union to ship weapons into a war zone for the first time in its history? To get Germany to sharply increase its military spending? To inspire famously...

The U.S. Must Support Ukraine, But China Must Be Our Priority

How should America respond to Russia’s abominable invasion of Ukraine? This is a question of immense importance. Right now, there is more heat than light in the discussion. Given the momentous stakes, Americans must respond...

The Vital Missing Link in the U.S. Sanctions Against Russia

The sanctions package the White House has implemented against Russia in the last 48 hours is remarkable. It is broad, deep, and targeted all at once. It is also almost certainly going to be more...

Even If Russia Wins, It Won't Do So Easily

In the early hours of Feb. 23, Liubov Tsybulska, an adviser to Ukraine’s government and military, woke from a terrible dream. “I was screaming but my voice was gone,” she tells me over Signal. “When...

Putin Can Attack Ukraine But He Can't Take Away My Home

'A thousand years of Russian imperial ambition had finally arrived, on my doorstep.'

Putin's Attack on Ukraine Is an Attempt to Delay His Own Inevitable Demise

Vladimir Putin is an old man scared of death trying to turn back time. Ukraine and Ukrainians are as his blood sacrifice. His invasion of their country is his attempt to forestall his personal, inevitable...

The Pain of Watching From Afar as Putin Attacks My Country

Dr. Paul Farmer, who died unexpectedly on Feb. 21 at the age of 62 in Rwanda, was one of the most extraordinary people I have ever known. As co-founder of the global health and social-justice organization...