Occupation: Journalist Birth: June 9, 1930
If anything good is going to emerge out of this, it's going to be the result of an acceptable modus vivendi between Ukraine and Russia. The two of th….
We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began to emerge. And we began to ….
Vladimir Putin is a Russian czar. He's kind of a mix of Peter the Great and Stalin. He's got both in his veins. And he looks out first and foremost f….
U.S. Constitution declares rather unambiguously that Congress has the responsibility to “declare war..
we are dealing with a return to what might be a far more normal relationship between the West and Russia. Russia is what it is that we see. It's not ….
Putin is a despot, and he's a very good despot. And he will see things in a narrow way. What is good for Russia? That is what he will do. If that's r….
Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world..
But there are realities governing what they can do. And Ukraine cannot live with the false image that somehow or another the West will come and rescu….
Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I su….
When President Obama in 2011 used military power against the Qaddafi regime in Libya, he did not even notify Congress. A few in Congress mumbled, but….
At what price do we get our news? The role of economics in defining the nature of contemporary journalism has never been better explained. A valuable….
Well, we have got to understand, for example, Russia is an orthodox Christian nation. So is Ukraine. That happened in 988 in Crimea, a place called K….
I love a novel that’s funny, and The Taxman Cometh is very funny, delightfully well-written, yet with a serious message about how government bureaucr….
Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of Ukraine that he could always us….
Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine..