Vladimir Putin

BARONE: Uncertainty remains after 20 days of war with Iran

March 27, 2026 Michael Barone

Four years and 25 days. Twenty days. There’s a huge difference between those two numbers. The first number — 1,486 days altogether — is the length of time since Russian troops crossed the Ukraine border […]

HARSANYI: Don’t cry for The Washington Post; it helped destroy media

February 13, 2026 David Harsanyi

In December 2016, The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility company, leaving millions without heat. This was serious stuff. President Barack Obama, the paper ominously […]

Trump welcomes Zelenskyy for talks

December 31, 2025 The Associated Press

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump said Sunday he believes both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin truly want peace, as he welcomed the “brave” Ukrainian leader for talks at his […]

HANSON: Are Americans better or worse off since January?

November 8, 2025 Victor Davis Hanson

The left wing and media rage hysterically from one Trump psychodrama to the next, while President Donald Trump trolls both on social media. But all that is verbiage. What matters is the data and facts […]

Putin: Russia will extend nuclear arms limits for 1 more year

September 30, 2025 The Associated Press

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week Moscow will adhere to nuclear arms limits for one more year under the last remaining nuclear pact with the United States that expires in February, and […]

Congress returns after monthlong August recess

September 3, 2025 The Associated Press

Congressional Republicans scored a massive victory this summer when they passed President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts without a single Democratic vote. But as they return to Washington this fall after a monthlong August […]

Trump envoy: Officials working ‘very, very hard’ on ending Russia-Ukraine war

August 31, 2025 The Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Keith Kellogg said in Kyiv on Monday that officials are “working very, very hard” on efforts to end the three-year war between Russia and Ukraine, as […]

Trump attempts to broker peace in Ukraine

August 21, 2025 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump says he has begun arrangements for a face-to-face meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss a pathway to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The president made the […]

DEVORE: China, Russia, war, peace and Trump

July 25, 2025 Chuck DeVore

While China rapidly expands its navy and nuclear weapons arsenal, and Russia remorselessly converts its economy to a wartime footing as it ramps up efforts to conquer Ukraine, events appear destined to come to a […]

BARONE: Tariffs based on tendentious history could be political malpractice

March 22, 2025 Michael Barone

Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin’s rationale for invading Ukraine, calls “tendentious history”? This week, it started to […]