by Leonid Bershidsky | Aug 13, 2017 | Opinion
Germany’s September election is like no other the Western world has seen in the last two years. As the leading candidate, Chancellor Angela Merkel, relaxed on a three-week vacation, her top challenger, Social Democrat Martin Schulz, worked the campaign trail...
by Leonid Bershidsky | Aug 7, 2017 | Opinion
Russian President Vladimir Putin tends to respond to Western sanctions in ways its authors probably didn’t anticipate: by going after those Russians who could most help their own country and who want to build ties with the West. His order last week to US...
by Leonid Bershidsky | Jul 24, 2017 | Opinion
The permissiveness of US gun laws is not just a domestic problem. Judging from a new study of internet gun sales, it’s also making the country a source of illicit weapons in Europe. Following reports that guns for the 2016 Munich shootings and the 2015 Paris...
by Leonid Bershidsky | Jul 21, 2017 | Opinion
If it looks as though Europe is clutching at straws to stop hundreds, sometimes thousands, of migrants from crossing the Mediterranean into Italy every day, that’s exactly what’s happening. On Monday, the European Union’s foreign ministers approved...
by Leonid Bershidsky | Jul 17, 2017 | Opinion
In two recent interviews, President Donald Trump made the argument that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have preferred Hillary Clinton in the White House. Trump’s argument is that he “campaigned on strong military, strong borders, and low oil...
