History

This week on the show: Two Russia experts on Moscow’s Ukraine gambit.

The Boxer Rebellion still shapes Beijing’s attitude toward the United States.

A recent International Court of Justice decision regarding Azerbaijan’s actions in Nagorno-Karabakh could offer protection to threatened cultural heritage sites around the world.

Political chaos can spur failing republics, not just destroy them.

Moscow has long claimed parts of northern Kazakhstan. The country’s current turmoil makes those claims a lot more relevant—and troubling.

The book “Haifa Republic” is a noble effort to salvage a worldview that no longer has anything to offer.

Israel’s leaders have always shown contempt for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip because their past—and ongoing presence—pose a direct challenge to Israel’s founding myth.

The trial to liquidate Russia’s best-known human rights organization is about much more.

In 1973, a presidential flight stunt baffled everyone.

Memorial is the latest victim of Russia’s history wars.

In December 1939, a small country with a small military held off the vastly superior Soviet Red Army and avoided occupation by its larger neighbor.

The killing of the Herero has disturbing parallels with the treatment of Uyghurs.

Standing up for U.S. values doesn't mean abandoning caution.

The Maori term “tangata whenua” conveys a powerful relationship with the land.

Fights about the party’s past are serious business in Beijing.

Capital punishment was a tool of white supremacy designed to instill terror and cement foreign domination. African governments should abolish it.

Blaming the fall of Rome on immigration is an old, wrong, and dangerous idea.

The genre is a potent mirror for a country still coming to terms with itself.

The U.S. president should ignore fearmongering and build on a real opportunity.