US Politics

Putin’s Time

Time’s Person of the Year. Who would have thunk it? Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin joins Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Three other Russian leaders

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The “Dark Double”

David S. Foglesong, The American Mission and the ā€œEvil Empireā€: The Crusade for a ā€œFree Russiaā€ since 1881, Cambridge University Press, 2007. ā€œCivilization is spreading

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Secret Desires

This just came from the Associated Press via CNN.Ā  Today, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said of Russia: “In any country, if you don’t

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Ivan Made Me Do It

NASA has been hit with another scandal. Intrigued, I watched the CNN coverage today only to repeatedly roll my eyes at all the references to

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Super Antonio

A momentary pause from Russia to give notice to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who was inaugurated this past week. From pictures of the inauguration,

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